Following the example of some other trades, the blacksmiths have now come to an arrangement to have a Saturday halfholiday by closing the shops at one o'clock. A meeting of the Cooks and Stewards' Association was advertised to be held at the W"««»rloy Hotel yesterday afternoon, but, ovioi to the smallness of attendance, it was jiw»»p<m«l until Friday next. ) An''Eyewitness" Bend the following:— "Xi the Mount Eden railway station the other day (for want, I suppose, of better I «Mouimodation) a coffin, containing a corpse, was pat into the ladies' waitingroom. The coGd. was evidently badly made, and the corpje must have been in a high state of decomposition, for some of the matter escaped, the marks of which are still traceable in the waitingroora, Comment on this is needless."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7644, 22 May 1886, Page 6
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