To-day, Mr. Blair, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief; Mr. Hales, District Engineer; and Mr, Thos. McKcnzio, M.H. R. tor Clutha, leave Devon port, by coach for War worth, and thence strike on bo the North Auckland trunk railway route at Wellrfford, and on to Kaukapakapa, and back to Auckland by rail. The object of the engineers is to inspect the section above named of the North Auckland trunk extension, and the recently completed Koukapakapa railway contract. " Men shut their doors against a setting sun," in a, very remarkable saying, to be found in " Tirtum of Athens," and one of the oracular utterly ances of the croat Bard of Avon. The expression is a truism. Tho moment a thing declines it is (lismissoil from public favour. I.«t.a man degenerate, and friendship clones it i hand against him, society r tabooes him, and ho -is exorcised, as it Ware, from all his pa.it iiHsuuiatioiiH. This contrary condition of :' thiiifis proven ' the high esteem ami > popularity of ■ Udolpho Wolfe's .Schiedam Aromatic .Schnapps. The j gates of all tho mails of the world are open to it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9346, 24 April 1889, Page 5
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