A resident of Mount Cambier has offored to the Souih Australian Government, for a reward not under Tj40,000, a method of exterminating rabbits. For LtO ho will undertake to clear, within seven days, 320 acres, no matter how thick tho rabbits aro. Tho specific is not a contagious disease. B-i-iv. .1 iiuicj Cooper, minister of the East parish, Aberdeen, applied to thopresbytcry for leave of absonce for three monrhs, in order to make an extended tour in Greece. Rev. C. C. Macdonald sincerely trusted Mr Cooper would take care of himself when lie went to Greece. They all knew that that country was exposed to the ravages of brigands, and . ho understood that Iho experience of some ministers of the Church of Scotland who bad visited it, and fell into the hands of brigands on a previous ooension, was that it was a judicious thing to carry with them a copy of the Confession of Faith, and ; also of A. K. H. B.s" Recreations of a Country Parsons." — (Laughter.) These were tho only two volumes that were found in a brigand's cave, and in consequence of the familiarity of . our ;miniatera with theao two do^cumeuts they had got off without paying .any ransom.— (Laughter.) , ,The leave of absonce was granted.,.,, ; % , "£.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XVII, Issue 833, 4 July 1890, Page 3
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210Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Clutha Leader, Volume XVII, Issue 833, 4 July 1890, Page 3
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