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NZ Truth, Issue 65, 15 September 1906, Page 2

There is very little work being done on the Hutt track,s at the present time, but if the weather keeps fine the various trainers should be able to push their charges along a bit more next week.

It is stated m N.S.W. Legislative Assembly the other day that the Sunday closing of hotels had driven men to drink beer through rubber pipes run through backyard fences. On a recent Sunday morning m the Botanical Gardens, a group of men sat m a circle on the grass. Every now and then one bent to the ground and appeared tp be inspecting a grub or a botanical specimen. The "specimen" was a bottle.

One can get a divorce on very frail grounds m the Land of the Stars and Stripes. A Yankee sought for an untying of the matrimonial knot the day after being spliced, as, after the Wedding, he somehow discovered that his wife had a timber leg. Yet tiiey say the Airiurkan bloke is the slickest product on this goldarn mud ball. Why, an, -Australian lad would have known the girl had a wooden pin long; before getting to the matrimonial noose-man.