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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 64, 8 November 1887, Page 2

Dr Morrill Mackenzie’s bill for servic-s to the Crown Prince of Germany : s about 54,000 marks, or a little more than £2,200. A woman, charged with drunkenness at Auckland, has had recorded against her 57 convictions for drunkenness, 37 for vagrancy, 4 for larceny, 1 for assault, and one for malicious injury to property. She got two years. Even a gibbering, chump headed bagman who doesn’t know enough to keep his foot out of a pail, can drive a good trade when he becomes a Minister, Not long since part of an Australian Cabinet was making a progress through the colony, and the Secrolary for Things in General sold tea along the rou‘ e, and made almost every purchaser of six halfchests a J.P. He even left in the middle of a banquet to go and sell tea, and when the party stopped at a hotel he would depose of groceries to the host, and when n deputation called on him he would load them up with sugar before they knew where they were, and when they were entertained by some local magnate he would take him aside and book an order for soap, and altogether he had a good time. One .obdurate storekeeper didn’t want any grocery, so the Minister made him a J.P. on spec., and then he sent him a i elegram of congratulation, and sited him if he thought he would have some candles. He replied that he had been a J. P. already for more than 12 yeare, and that he was d—-d if he wanted any candles,— Exchange,