PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9840, 22 February 1893, Page 4

PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

List No. I,

The Gable ‘ Canarder' The Coal Dealer The Grocery Man The Cigar Man and The Financial Agent The Hotelkeeper.

The coat man whose early education was ■n shamefully neglected that ha thlnkath 17owt 'iqrs 141bo make a ton. The Royal cable ‘oanarder,’ who aandolb a sensational message to-day with the distinct intention o( contradicting t tomorrow

The olgar man, who smileth a beautiful smllo, and hondeth his oostomer a olgar—raw, green, and ill-flavoured—and guarantees it a genuine Havannab, although he knoweth the tobaeoo was grown In the vicinity of Hamburg, and that article the Itself was manufactured at the same place. The “ finanoial agent ” (the modern name for pawnbroker and nearer) who prideth himself on being a "friend la adversity,” etc'., and who, as most people know, “ atloketh closer than a brother.”

Tha grocery man, who Inoroaaeth hla stock of tea by lavishly introdoolng sundry Savoury herbs, the leaves of wliioh are carefully rolled to resemble the genuine leaf. The hotelkeeper, who oolleoteth Buchanan's House ov Commons Whisht bottles and filletb loom with so Inferior spirit, and is thus the direst cause of the distinctly expressive language which Is jerked spasmodically from between tha teeth of his angry customers. 1