Al recent sale in Philadelphia, the original signed manuscript of the eighth canto of Byron's "Don Juan," written by the poet on both sides of forty-eight folio pages, sold for $3,600, Fifty letters and documents writ. ten by Benjamin Franklin, for the most part to Miss Mary Stevenson, the young daughter of Adinell Ste-benson of London, with whom Franklin made his home when in that city, sold for $5,525.
Two manuscripts dealing with the conquest of Mexico by Cortez were sold, One written by Pedro de Alvarado, a companion of Cortez, sold for $1,000. A six-page letter of Cortez to the Emperor Charles V. brought $1,400. We Two volumes of the first edition of Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend," auttograplted by the author, sold for The agreement ' between Dickens and his publishers for issu-ling the same work brought $650. A letter from Lamb to Coleridge fetched $324, Burns's manuscript of his poem, "To Miss Mary Cruikshank," brought $350.
The manuscripts of Bret Harte's "Maruja" and "Cressy" were sold respectively for $775 and $875.
As a protest against the steady influx of Chinese and Hindus into New Zealand, Auckland (North Island on New Zealand) waterside workers have decided not to work on any vessels carrying such people. The workers complain that Chinese are ousting Europeans fron the fruit trade.
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