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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 64

When the Boer war gentlemen of consido ra bl e ff • p me t ju and knowledge of public aff ; tt an editorial room m Auckl > to tho course of conversation ° on fljct speculate as to how long opinion would last. One ventured the op that it would he a year . wo uld ties were ended ; another sai J_htccn not be over in less t ] “ ditor-bcW months; the third * ie + 0 subjT that it would take two y t imistic gate the Boers. The most P f oU nd the three laughed at this; ~ that “the man .in the st«m even more hilarious at tl ‘ uer the year would he required t urse of two small Republics. sinusticevents has shown that the editor was too sanguine, n _ pro* The moral of course is— * phesy unless’you are certa ’ ’ A specially constructed vaP o^^ for use at the Hanmer Plain the Tof; ium, has just been receive .j a Tbs ist Department from Australia, bath is lined with asbesto •