Petitions and Petitions.

Southland Times, Issue 9390, 2 December 1886, Page 3

Petitions and Petitions.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, — I see by your issue of 27th inst. that my letter has had a fearful effect on one of the road reserve intruders here. "When he read it he ran out to have one more look at that valuable piece of ground which he has occupied for a quirtc-r of a century, but when he returned to his desk, alack and alas I his memory was gone. For the life of him he could not repeat the oM proverb— " People that live in glass houses should never throw stones," althoagh ho tried ever so often, There, p?or maa he solemnly declared that G, 12 and 13 were sll twenty-five's. He imagined that a road 110 chains distant was runniag close by, and his eyesight &lso got ruined, for he could not discern betwixt a road going south and one going &ou ! -west. He positively stated that they were bjth going in tho name direction. Bi^ in his anguish and combination of maladies his heart ovetfbwed with charity, for you see he has promised poor Clodhopper a job —I am, etc , Clodhopper, Ry*l Busb, 3):h November.