Miscellaneous.
It takes two tons of rags to make one ton of paper. Johnson, alias Everett, has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labor.
The Hoi*. Mr Cad man says that the extra holiday given to railway employes last year cost over £3OOO. Amongst the latest converts to the delights of cycling are. Sir Robert and Lady Stout* A subscriber to the Invercargill Atheneum took out no less than 310 books last year. Presbyterianism is said to be making marked progress in Wellington* The Johannesburg Jockey Club’s Easter Handicap is worth £SOOO. Mr Park, Postmaster at Taupo, has been arrested on the information of the Government auditor on a charge-of embezzling £4OO. He was r. leased on bail to appear at Rotorua cn the 13bh inst.
A Waimarama settler lost a roll of 70 £1 notes in Napier on Saturday either in the -streets or in a hotel.
Invercargill Corporation has decided to raise £19,000 in the London market. You are not going to publish everything I say, are you I ” said Senator Sorghum, anxiously. “ No,” replied the reporter j “ I wouldn’t think of it. If I were to let some of that grammarless English get into the paper I’d lose my position before sunset to-mor-row.”
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Lake County Press, Issue 695, 13 February 1896, Page 2
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208Miscellaneous. Lake County Press, Issue 695, 13 February 1896, Page 2
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