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NZ Truth, Issue 91, 16 March 1907, Page 5

Jack Slattery, the Christchurch cabby, should take a pull— a long pull,, and a strong pull. He has been up ten times, charged with elevating his beak to the deiling and looking; at the bottom of a glass. This week he was ! fined a avid for the [ same old crime, and three quid for breaking his prohib. order. . Stout generally runs m the same refreshment shaft as oysters, .and people who appreciate the good things of life know that it's an nxcellent , companion for the bivalve. One oyster purveyor at the Zibisimn, recognising this, has had lockers fixed up m his location to contain liquid ie.ffeshment, and the pious parsons of the city have been grumbling throuch 1 their beards to Cabinet Minister Pbwlds about the business. But there !'is no breach of the law, ; the swankev is given away with the oysters, but ! the latter are mighty dear under the •circumstances. Re the Chinese question, old Dr. Wallis. meenister m charge of the Presbyterian Church, m a street off Symonds-street, Auckland, the name of' which deponent forgetteth. but it was m that same street that stood and probably stands. St. Benedicts' R.C. Church j and who was a most vigorous JVT.H.R: as w*ll as preacher/ was the first man to make it a battle-cry. T'e would rrobaMv have gone • a whole lot nenrer. to svitpss if it bad not I*rm thnt ho broii"l:t ridicule on Ms nnMe cause hy V;s awfu' Scottish acer'nt. yo Vp.,. T'-<e auld fpchter cnaV.d (b^m Uve "Ohin-knefs" and his nror"Tirl:ition of the word always arouse-' ?!or»Mon instead of riclit-PO'is ■wret 1 '. T^,'<? dead anrt sone larift sync; torf + >;e brave old warr'or was thf r ' r '-.' m Npw 7ealand to sniff 'the. ri^fn* 1 stink and dread the yellow inTasftn.