(The Graphic.) Both marriages and divorces are be coming peculiarly business arrangements in America, in San Francisco, we hear, a " managing papa" ha 3 been advertising i for husbands for his daughters, describing | their advantages in a manner eminently calculated to induce a transaction. The idea is remarked upon by the press as vastly superior to the means usually em ployed by " managing mammas" with the same object ; and we can fancy that it is likely to be efficacious in the case of flowers apparently born to blush unseen and waste their sweetness where nobody comes to see them. It is a great improvement, too, upon a lady or gentleman advertising on their own account, as the young ladies may be supposed quite unconscious of the

A correspondent of the Press asks why the City Council of Christchurch are advertising to borrow money at six per cent, when they have recently lent £300 'to the General Go veroment at 4 per cent, 1

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