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All of the recent Presidents of the United States, are said to have saved money. Mr Lincoln iS spoken of as hay • ing laid by over £50,000. Johnston saved £60,000. The salary in their time was only £25,000, while it is now £50, 000. Grant is generally supposed to ! have saved about £100,000. He only j had the increased salary for a small part of his term. Mr Hayes is supposed to have lived on £10,000 a year, which will make his savings £160,000 at the close of his term. The Wanganni Chronicle says :— As a rule persons drawn as Supreme Court jurymen are disgusted with tbeir ill-luck, and inveigh bitterly against the law which makes snch demands on their time. But this is not always the oase. The other day a person who bad observed his name fingering amongst the list of common jnrors published in this paper, and not having been served with a summons within what he judged to be a reasonable time after the panel was drawn, complained to the Sheriff of this apparent neglect, and added ' that 3s was 3s these hard times/ Professor Gold win Smith has written a review of Lord Beaconsfield's "Endymion," which contains this passage :— " This writer's ideal of life is always the same— gorgeous palaces, gilded saloons, upholstery of ravishing splendour, gold and silver plate, diamonds, pearls, and rubies by the peck, silks, satins, and velvets by the bale and of fabulous cost, footmen innumerable, with powdered heads and the largest canes, horsett and equipages as fine as those in any circus, money without limit, and everything regardless of expense. It is the days dream of Houndsditch."

SATURDAY, MAY 7tb, 1881. At 4 o'clock. PIGS. PIGS. PIGS. PATRICK BRENNAN will sell by Public Auction, in Smith's Paddock, at 4 p.m., as above— *)£ QUIET WELL-BRED STOBE 4)0 PIGS. I No Reserve. Terms at Sale. j PATRICK BRENNAN, Auctioneer, Reefton, May sth, 1881. PRELIMINARY NOTICE, A BAZAARand /^ HRISTMAS-TREE \J . will beheld during the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, IN AID OV THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FUND, The committee have decided to send to Europe for a large quautity of Fancy Goods suitable for that purpose. NOTICE. iIf'PARLAND'S EXPRESS LEAVE FOR BOATMAN'S DAILY. FAEB-FIYB SHILLINGS BACH