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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3488, 10 June 1884, Page 3

A meeting of the Levels Road Board was held at 2.30 this day at their office, at which the annual rate of fd in the £, payable on Ist July, was passed by tho Board. At the B.M. Court this morning, before J. Beswick, Esq., E.M., Owen Doherty, who has figured in the Court on several previous occasions, and J. H. Smith, for drunkenness, were fined 20s each, with the alternative in the former case of 48 hours’ imprisonment. “ Dear Louise, don’t let the men come too near you when courting.” “ Oh, no, dear ma. when Charles is here we have a chair between us.” Mother thinks the answer is rathes ambiguous. Bronson —“ Well, I always make it a rule to tell my wife everything that happens.” “Oh, my dear follow, thats nothing. I toll ray wife lots of things that never happen at all." Quite too thin.— Flannagan—“Thim’s the thinnest pair o’ gents I ever see, barrin’ wan.” Lannigan—“An 1 how thin was he, might I ask?” Flannagan “ Begorra, he was as thin as the two o’ thim put to-gother."