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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 36, 28 December 1888, Page 20

Messrs. Charles Begg and 0 >„ Dunedin and Timaro, are con* stantly supplied with a stock of pianos, from which selections m»y be made with the utmoßt confidence. All the instruments are the genuine work of the best European maker*, and will stand any* test demanded of them. The firm's instalment system, by. which a-piaoo or organ may be acquired by an easy series of payments, possesses especial advantages and places a first class, instrument within the reach of everyone desirous of obtaining i\ Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has a paper published for his own privite reading exclusively. It is made up solely of extracts from foreign and local papers concerning hii Majesty or questions of Austrian policy. The foreign extracts are translated, condensed an much as possib'e. and then writtea upon linen papsr, which is handed to the Emperor every morning. Sometimes the Imperial Review, as it is called, consists of as many as sixteen pages. Nothing of importance can be omitted, praise and blame being alike required. Three copies of this wonderful journal are prepared',. One goes to the Emperor, another to the Secretary of- State, and a.third to the prime Minister. Tbe cost oE the publication it about .two hundred thousand gulden yearly.