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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 12 August 1909, Page 1

• ■"■ - '„. '-■)■■'■ "Pluck," said the financier,' ''is the secret of success." "Well," interrupted the shabby man, "I'll give yon ±.10 if you'll teach mo, your method « ■ ' pluCking:' 1 * ' v J.-JJA- •'"-. ;:„•'.. Charlie Loveday : "Urn —ah— er-ipr — er ! He ! he — — ' ' ..: Jeweller " (to Abia assistant): "Bring, that .tray of engage? ment rings here, Henry;"". ' *■*-. ' ..-".. "So Bliggins has written an historical novel?" "Yes,---' answered ..•""»' - Cayenne. "Who is.the hero-^of; ; tha book V'A "The man \who has .undertaken : to publish it.'" -■■•■■""• :-JJy : . v» . . An old age -* pensioner, who was for many years a ju-stice of . the-peace,. waa ■ before "thS^court "for drunkenness^ last : week (says the. reilding-',--StaT''),, and was convicted and discharged. -.'-.. - Great Britain (says the South African '''Notebook",) ha*^ three - . ;Mi|teresta to protect - in . South Af rica-^the jjmperial tie, the natives, and the Europeans who went to South Africa at her instigation. And she cannot ignore her rc-spoiisibiliH'', -to' them. .-■.-.. ■■ : '-A..A-'-- ---'■■, It is state'd' thai': Burr 4 was .'the first' heavy-wetfghW champion of the world who is not of English Irish, or American descent,- being of French-German extraction and born in Canada.