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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 1521, 5 July 1898, Page 3

The Jlataura Ensign is led to understand that the temperance party, taking Mr M'Nab's recent majority as the basis of its calculations, is extremely sanguine as to the probabilities of being able to carry "no license" in the Mataura district at the next poll, and with that idea in view is busy preparing for the necessary organisation to carry its expectations to a satisfactory conclusion. A most valuable Barns' excise permit has just come into the possession of a Dalkeith gentleman, who, having purchased for a trifling sum several small framed prints, discovered that among the lot was an excise permit granted by Hobert Burns when exciseman at Dumfries. The warrant, dated Nov. 30. 1792, authorises the delivery of a cask of foreign rum, proof, to Thos. Harkness, Dumfries, and is signed by Burns, A true story is told by a well known African traveller, of a female monkey shot by a friend of bis and carried to his tent. Forty or fifty of. her tribe advanced with menacing gestures, but stood still when the gentleman presented his gun at them. One, however, who appeared to be the chief of the tribe, came forward chattering and threatening in a furious manner. Nothing short of firing at him seemed likely to drive him away, but at length he approached the tent door with every sign of grief and supplication, as if he were begging for the body, ft was given to him ;he took it in his arms and carried it away with actions expressive of affection to his companions, with whom he disappeared. The effect upon the traveller was such he vowed never to shoot another monkey.

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