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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 8 June 1891, Page 3

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Says the Pahiatua Star : —Sheep are still fetching enormous prices. We heard-j of a Mangahoa settler being offered 15s per head (cash down) for about 200. He refused to part. They are reckoned, however, to be some of the finest sheep in the district. Oarnaru (says the Marton Mercury) boasts a Beaconsfield. He is not a statesman, but a great player at bowls. The great Beaconsfield often bowled out his opponent, especially when they were ''on the green." Californiau Regulators recently hanged the wrong man, and then sent a letter of apology to the widow. Fashionable wife: "Did you notice, dear, at .the party last evening, how grandly our daughter Clara swept into the room?" Husband (with a grunt) : "Oh, yes. Clara can sweep into a room grandly enough, but when it comes to sweeping out a room she isn't there." A very good story comes to us from across the Atlantic. Dr Peabody, of Harvard, is an octogenarian, and therefore he may certainly be excused for being a little , absent-minded on occasions; but some little time ago he really.surpassed himself. One day he alighted froni a car in Boston, and going suddenly round a sharp corner, found himself face to face with an elderly person who was holding his hat- in his hand, and mopping his heated-forehead with a red pocket-handkerchief. Dr Peabody regarded the mendicant —as he believed him to b«s —for a mojnant, and,

then, with a kindly smile, threw some coins into the hat and marched on, blissfully conscious of having done a charitable action. The mendicant was Dr Wendell Holmes.