Bis Excellency Sar J. Pren lergast has, through his privato secretary, offered to provide a dinner to tho old people in the Ohiro Home on the Queen's Birthday, in honour of Her Majesty's sixty-first accession day. The Benevolent Homo authorities have accepted the offer, with thanks. His Excellency has forwarded a sum sufficient to cover the necessary expenditure. A peaceful resident of Roxburgh street heard a fumbling at the window and door of his house the other night, and at once concluded that he had a first-class ease of burglary on hand. Leaping out of bod, he crept to tho door, and with as little noiso as possible pulled itsuddanly open. Prone into Ida arms there foil a man in an advanced stage of intoxication, who, mistaking the house for his own, bad been vainly trying to unlock the door with the assistance of a lead pencil,,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1316, 20 May 1897, Page 35
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147Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1316, 20 May 1897, Page 35
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