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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4199, 29 August 1888, Page 4

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Tils Aa» Hootj a-iys : A ytotinsr p».)W"0 la a»rr»e», »fw '•» day cnis" laas w#ek. tptotafd t» h>-r mlatrßim' hi-tw it* »** t-sh'!a?»sr-d cundsllioo. Rtinsf si<cis tn "o>>d wish th.T ki*ch;-n

maid, tha made ha»3»if w Mtcweditwiy onpleiwurit that a policonms *« calt-'d to. ** A* the distucbnoc« is t» howaTor." sivt<i the <.tH.rut, " I «a - i oarlock on." That is what tiu policrr.Mi always says. I Icnow i» man wht> had a ricuckaa, nutsierowi, t> feet and vory fat, who persistt-d ore nt£i;S tn. f.r> io Übtf halt and having (appuraniiy) nightmares. The «uirdu.-t of tha f,»w wiw summoned, has to act. '* sl*aur ana Uoa ttia hu "nod I cao do cosbinjf." do- yutt itaagfna to bo y >or doty 1" inquirud th> master of ciuj hocaa, wrh perhaps the Isast tottjhrf s.vica. "My duty la to sea that tti t»fnovins* «t> ; » ran you aim no oneeoisaary vtoU-coo." My Irfwfid WiM» abeot 5 fe>«t 5 toch<?9 hisch, in delicata health, and had recently spratced his arm.

Ofo salf denial, howairer, apon so dalicata a point sj» psbiteui 'n. wil fat ©atdoce by Gsorxa E'.b".. II :c firs! with tha publisher _r>f lloeaota was for no tes.l a *tia. it is s.»i i, than 10,000 "I matt run i r throruh 15 cocabvfsi <-f thj CimStli." "So,"'sha- replied, *'it onst Rr.ls?i in 12 nrrobats, or th<* artistic ttfacS of ths story will bo loaf. I quitj andara'aad the necvsaity Eur tt3 prolongation fteai » cornmsccfal point To? «i«w, sa wi»'K s:iy 7QQO instead of tha 10,000." and TOGO srcln*;is w:«s accordingly paid fur tha copyright. 3000 goiaaaa saotas a larjc anro t<? c:r.* rjp In* no artistic scrupl: ; bo: she* did it..— Ibid.

Mr Bcownisst, I rua.?, h>3 fc»d Li;.*') offawd biss Ho writ« a. short p>:m in » Boatoo mafjitafno-, and it. Ha tatta aa {fan: feo tw fc.ul rs.toy soc'i and e-*Ba a bUafc cheqoa in pfopoard paynsenf. I c>on«t traa?fr.e ir.y-n----eac»pt biMittor Et «m dr»wa rtpun dactinlng » bUnfc chsqaf. Rot, ho»e»ief Ctlfioas tifs cufa.'Jul. hit rt-won for ir is jtill mom sir. "If f pfibli.-th :v boot:," fi» says, "and paapUj tff buy it, th»f. pco»«S thae they mn! So r«:>d tfi;> boo*. Bat to ba«o them tarn msr tbi< of » magazine itnd End ts°. ch.it i» li&w ao nr.:a*ited _ " Jty eysj," M Sura Weltef and not » pair of p.iteat cii^n:£y:".' mtcroscopas of e:stc;» power." t conf-?si I »aa naabfe to dwC'jvac tha di!ljrisr.cj. If Mt Browning h id saJd nitcijh', " I do:/t wish my poataa t™ to cntup»'y with Infarfor cpospoglttics," hu would bavs mod« blauiuli iotellisibrg.— Ibid. " WiUii*», r " *nli one Q'latcsr to »~o!hsr, knows I norer c»it anybody nacß«», j lint, Williitm, if tha Lord Stayor «oto to cocoa to me and say, 1 Jo»ha», I w»nt thse toi Hind out th» o r ' I wuotd cocao to thea, and pat my h.ir; i ott thy shoo'dsr, and a;»y to * the Lord Jl.iyor wants to so-j then.'" Tha OSa?™ Workman tclU tha f 'l'ith; utocy "An eccuntric ftstdua; fn on» of oor billy sttbnrbaa distcicu, cot nnny ciiiaß Irocoe a Tramway To«-r.:innj, i.»«o!y, ta aa extraordinary m:»nn«r, clovd hij shop, holsttrid thj Ualoa Jack hfift, and then annonr.cirf on st pT&entd oo hL* shatters thu foHowtn? nore! annoan«um>stit:—'This ihop :a clo-isd in honor of tha death of tha Uto Gnril Gordon, who was a soldier and a Christian, thonah only a Sco'chcnn by the Botbar's side.*"

The Teachings of Travel »« the aabjaci of a tactort* dolivared rt'cor.tly by IVofaßßof Tnc'tar, Jt.A., of Metboornt? UniTucsity, at the S.nith Sfsib'-arti* Ta«tn Half, hafoci> a torvra of ta-'tn-b«r» t:f lb® l«cnl branc'i of fho Arj'tra'un J»a:iTa»' Aiacciatioo and Choir ieitaus. The which prwrulj people of alt nations of tha m-tcnurs, coatocoa, and U«ijl.»'is>D of tha inhabitants of other coontrisa waa dwelt upon m landing to wtoti!? estimate* formed oo all airJaa of the rnsHts nf those of nther mast. Professor Taciwr pointed r,at how maoy uaaful lajsoca could be learned <y travel fur the ierspr-iTfca-jnt of rametl ncd one*# coooJry. and claimed that trarat waa tha oily iffF--cs;vt> ag,!f»t the ataadaKl of cmliaatioo. £Io detected in the Australian natives so mo very isolated ta.innsrfjKis and a want r>f courtesy, and a dfiiacUo.>,tf»rj to accept oataiiia help to lotw a cationaj character, la making tha faluro Aoj'.ralian race what it to b»», he rscotnaieodrd a liberal course of trarel to the ir.diridoal wheoefar It coatd busffirdsd. Tha tsetare wait a *#ry ealertalninsf oa«\ and a *o»n nf thanks was unanimously accorded to Profusgot Tockar opott ita occlusion. Histrionic Rsalitiei?. Utility Lidy (hticryinit ir> brtathkau tlva miaateii after tha call for the diafirina'ion of p»rta for tbs nsw »pec''icnlar production)—" Whit g«e I" Manager (prornptty) *' iuo psS Silky pec canta tins for b-irt' late, and yc.u'cv tfn» Erapn-aj nf India in the pcolcijvtt? and of in the liuit act; and yoct don's watt* to show cp Itt thtam difisy old blaj s.iliti a~stn, for yoaVii gut to 3it 00 a gold tbeonj tun f««»t hlsrh and pot ya:r foot on th-j m'eic of tha Kins' of Persia in the faa", act. Jfow yoa coaje hero to*csorrow at tea, f.-ttcr jwtfect, or yuu'il be back ia thj a t ciud row, carrying a tio aword, first thiag yoa know.'*