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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70455, 4 October 1900, Page 4

TALKERS AND TALK. IT may be put down as an almost inviolable rulo that the big talkers are not good conversatioualitts. The mere fact of much talking on the part of one rules out other people, and there can hardly be much point in a windy monologue. What more common sight is there than that of half a dozen people sitting silent while one "holds forth " in a stream of self-satisfied palaver, which gives no great pleasuro to the rest, though you know that several' who ara present would have had something crisp and good to cay if the talk had b en scattered, and casual, and natural, and not formal and dominated by a windy bore? No greater mistake could be made than to suppose that silent, or even taciturn, people are the worse wet*blankets of talk. The greatest; of all such damping afflictions are the good souls who firmly believe id is their duty to keep on talking, to keep the ball toiling whether they have anything to say or not. Next to them come the 1 spesialists, experts, and faddists, 1 whose existence is bounded by some ' restrictive theory. Lastly, there is the woeful company of professed jokers, who have been persuaded that . it is their mission to amuse. A certain amount of talk is necessary, 1 and we talk straight when we tell 1 you that Suratura is the Queen of | teas. Suratura is a rich and iragrant Ceylon tea, and is guaran - i teed not blended with Indian j China, i or other cheap and inferior teas. EDWASD C. HOE N¥b SHIPPING, PRODUCE, NURANGE, AND GENERAL AGENT I PATEA [ Agent for — Anohor Line of Steamers ■ Ik verpool, London, and Globe Insurance Company; Harmonio Hall, &a. Broker . Australian Mutual Provident Society ' Licensed Custom House Agent. Clerk Patea County Oounoil. . Seoretar Hospital Board. [ Seoret&ry Paten harbor .Hoard. II Purohaeer of fungus wi all kinds of 1 Pro6ucw fw U.L.