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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 5, 4 April 1885, Page 6

O tempora, 0 mores ! What a scandalous State of society when ones sole

|j distinguishing badge of respectability is |i seized, by the plebian trader ! Who I will believe in my greatness now I have | lost my piano I I The barmaid lambing down case is i attracting such attention as to render it ; advisable that quick restitution of the , £3 be made.

If the married lady in the light, dress does not find a more secluded piace ok assignation than beneath the willows in Childers Road, there will be an expose before long I A man has arisen to meet the exigencies of the times in the person of die Great Unwashed Rufus, who has propounded a scheme whereby a Harbor of Refuse is- to be constructed in the Grey street drain. This noted philanthropist has offered to supplement his plans- with a donation of £2, 000,000 towards its construction, providing a suitable reserve is made whereon he can erect large soap works. On account of the rough usage which she has been subjected to for the past few weeks, Aunt Sally has been allowed a holiday, in order that she may get re-bronzed —a process well known is a brisk application of the brass candlestick.. What was the Reeson why the portable gasometer refused to take one of our “ Specials ?” Perhaps he thought there was something to pay ! Who does that snarling cur belong to that is running about town “out of collar? - ’ What a pity there is not a dog’s home in Gisborne I Shall Vve have to chain him up ? Poor Mary! What a perplexity she must have been in during the last nineteen months-. How frequently ; memory, “that fond deceiver,"' mu>t have “ brought back the feeling ” of doubt which existed in her mind as to which thorn of the bush had caused the mischief. Oh, Mary, gather thy garments about thee, and, with the fond memory of the past as a guide, carefully wend thy way through the remainder of the thornv maze of life.