CABLE CONNECTIONS
(Prkbs Apsociaticm.—CopXmiQHT.) (Rec. .11.46 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. "Work in connection with joining ..the Eastern direct cable to Sydney .with New Zbaland commenced off Bondi. on Tuesday. V- : i
Mrs Green: "I see a man died at the age of 118." Mr Green: "Well, it was about time, wasn't it?" ~ ,•;•-'.; .'Doesn't your husband find it dreadfully inconvenient'' living so far away from his work?" 'He just loves ) it. vlt gives him such splendid excuses for coming home late." Stayt a "How did the snowstorm affect the train service cut your way?" liayt: "Didn't affect it at all. It merely gave the compaYry a good excuse for the trains ,being late as usual.'' ! " •> Turke: "I wonder where Scribbler got the character of that peculiarly- detest-, able villain in his new novel?". Burke,: "Oh, that's' a portrait of the publisher who refused his first book!" . ;
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Nelson Evening Mail, 5 April 1917, Page 4
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145CABLE CONNECTIONS Nelson Evening Mail, 5 April 1917, Page 4
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