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NZ Truth, Issue 71, 27 October 1906, Page 3

Fire is a lottery all right, 'and insurance is a gamble Someone advertises m Melbourne for the whereabouts of "Lord Charles O'Neill." That advt. is useless exnenditure. If Lord Charles had struck Melbourne, he'd have been snapped up and married m Toorak by this time. Three Christchurch hotel assistants have now been fined for the one drunk ; that is to say, they have been mulct m penalties for serving a kid named Tommy Wilson, of Hornby, who got on the razzle while he was under the age prescribed by the Act. Two were barmen, and one was of the other sex who helps to preside over the destinies of the Excelsior Hotel. In each case the country kid, and his pal (who ought to have known better) had to testify against the people who served them with port wine and brandy, nml other stronp; condiments. It will be a lone; while before they will testify against them again-