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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 34, 18 December 1885, Page 7

His Holiness Leo XIII. has just sent forty thousand francs to his Eminence Cardinal Celesia, Archbishop of Palermo, for distribution among the poor who are suffering from the ravages of cholera. The fact that Carter and Co., of George Btreet, are the only Drapers in Dunedin doing a strictly Cash Trade, who import their own Goods direct from Home Markets, is the one cause of their being able to sell cheaper than any other firm. Carter and Co. have just opened, ex s.s. Coptic and Kaikoura, 16 cases Men's and' Boys' Clothing, and in consequence of the desperate scarcity of Ready Money, they have decided to offer the whole lot, for a few weeks, at landed cost. Therefore, call, inspect, and judge for yourself. Carter and Co., 60 and 62 George street, Dunedin. One curious revelation of the last American census was the growth of the female population of the large cities. It was shown that New York contains about 25,000 more women than men ; Boston had a surplus of 18,000 women ; in Baltimore there are 17,005 more women than men, and so on in several other of the large Eastern cities. Fifty years ago it was the men who came to the cities to pursue their careers, while the women stayed at home ; but more recently women, both in this country and Europe, have been crowd, ing to the business centres. — True Witness.