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NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 4

Noted that the "Grey river is still encroaching? on the Greymouth. Jocfe^ Club's fnoperty. Well, what's a racecourse for; can't a river run on it ? Tt de-esn't anpsar to be runnine; stiff, anyway. Purity of speech is not generally associated with expressmen. All the world over these gentry sepin to he afflicted rather m an opposite direction, and those who freqiuent the Rattray Street rank at Dunertin are no exception to the rule. They seem to forget that there is a little place of public resort hard-by, into -which, their loud' ami -profane utierijygs are easily wafted ; ami it would oe well if, rememibering this, they refrained from such fluent expression of their emotions as they have teen accustomed to m the past. A thorough dipsomaniac is De Renzie Henry Brett, who is rather well known m Ohrislchurch. In fact, there is a prohib. order against him there, and when he arrived up from ■Timaru from a rich and royal jag some observant copper noticed his luminous radiant countenance, and nut his kettle on. ,He didn't turn up at Court, a.' lawyer receiving sentence, but. the beak, m fining him a couple of quid, said he must toe the mark next time or else he'd have to dnink tea out of a tin pannikin lox a while, ,As lone 1 as he keetvs his mind on his work De Renzie is uJlripht, but if he happens to read a pub advt. m a papes to tushes off for a pert. »