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NZ Truth, Issue 245, 5 March 1910, Page 1

Nell Mitchell, otherwise Madame Melba, .otherwise Helen Armstrong, who is rusticating at Poppa's Place at Coldstream, Victoria, has written a letter oi au revoir gush to the daylies expressing undying love for the land of her birth. It is dated from Poppa's house, and is thus, appropriately, Poppycock ! -• - - • » • The canal partisans m Christchurch are pleased. Kitchener sampled the sulphur and smoke of Lyttelton tunnel, and expressed astonishment that the hole was not duplicated. With this puny rabbit burrow as the sole line of communication Christchurch might just as well be entirely cut off from its port m wartime. n * Mr Richard Cherry, M.P., who has been ottered the post of Lord, Justice of Appeal m Ireland, is an enthusiastic amateur bell-ringer, and he says it is one of the pleasantest and most invigorating of recreations, being superior to even goK. Oh ! "Critic" knows it's very invigorating to hear a bicycle bell just behind him, but as. for the pleasantness of the pastime, he won't go bail until he's got the views of the gentlemen who ring bells at the front doors of auction rooms.