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KEMPTHORNE PROSSER AND CO. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Aug. 28. The directors of Messrs Kcmpthorne Prosser and Co. have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, ner annum.
When a man named John Jones was sentenced at Llangollen to three months’ imprisonment Avith hard labor for stealing a bottle of port Avine from the vestibule of a private house, he exclaimed, “Oh, dear! Why! I should have thought I could have taken the Avhole town for three months.”
A question of heredity cropped up in a case concerning cows which was before Mr. E. S. McCarthy, S.M., at Dannevirke on Thursday. Brands were under discussion when a witness was asked if a certain animal in the case was branded. “No, but her mother was,” replied the witness. Mr. T. H. G. Lloyd: They do not inherit these marks. His Worship: I have heard of one instance of that. Mr. Lloyd: It’s a remarkable fact. His Worship: 111 a- mustering case between two adjoining farmers one had a calf horn with his neighbor s earmark on itl
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3614, 29 August 1912, Page 5
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181COMMERCIAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3614, 29 August 1912, Page 5
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