A GLIMPSE OF WHANGAROA HARBOUR, SHOWING THE WHARF.
A magistrate who was bald was hearing a case, and at its conclusion said to the prisoner : “ lx what the witnesses say about you is true, your conscience must be as black as your hair.” “If the hair of a man indicates the state of his conscience,” retorted the prisoner, “ it appears to me that you have no conscience at all.” A practical joker tells this story, and declares that the experience cured him of his bad habits. “On my arrival at Liverpool, as a joke I sent to a friend of mine in the country, well-known lor his aversion to spending money, a telegram, with porterage to pay, reading : ‘ I am perfectly well.’ The information evidently was gratifying to him, for about a week after sending the telegram a package was delivered at my room, on which I paid four shillings for carriage. “ Upon opening the package I found a paving stone, on which was pasted a card, saying : 1 This is the weight your recent telegram lifted from my mind.’ ” .'JkaMtaik,... —----- -
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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181A GLIMPSE OF WHANGAROA HARBOUR, SHOWING THE WHARF. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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