A controversy m Victoria on the " colonial accent " has produced the following grapbic example : — A fair young Victorian was handing afternoon refreshments. Mr Brown wished to have grapes instead of they proffered cake. " Have some kike first, Me Brown,'' said the fair temptress. "I made, it myself. Afterwards you shall have the, gripes ! "
A little boy named Clareburt, only just able to toddle, fell over a cliff abcut eighty feet, high at Napier on Tuesday, and escaped with a broken collarbone,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6897, 8 February 1894, Page 2
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