Says the Wairarapa Star :—Three men struck a Forty-mile Bush hotel the other night and pitched the landlord a sorrowful tale of semi-starvation, &c. They were given tea and beds, and in the morning they again tackled the benevolent landlord, saying that they could not very well get along the road without breakfast. " All right," said boniface, " you split up a little firewood until breakfast is ready, and you shall have a feed." The trio immediately grasped their swag 3 and left. The bridge across the Rangitikei at Onepuhi was so damaged by the recent floods that it will cost .£2500 to repair. The estimated cost of repairing the damage done to the roads and bridges throughout the county is -£3590. This is not a bad item, remarks a local paper, for a body already in debt to the extent of over .£3300.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 34
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