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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 1

Friend: "Why <lo you encourage these women suffrage meetings? Surely you don't approve of thcin ?" Husliand : "Approve ? With all my heart. I' can come home late as I like now without my wife being at home to ask questions. '&. young budding orator having dei livered an address, turned-proudly to ihis friend, and asked: "Don't you. think it was a finished speech?" ■ "Yes," replied the friend, slowly; , "but at 'various points I thought it ! nevor would be I" What it means to encounter a water spout in the South Seas is describo dby Beatrice Grimshaw: "First of I all, .a black trunk, like an elephant's, began to feel blindly about in midi air, hanging from a cloud. It eamo \ nearer and nearer with uncanny speed, drawing up to itself as it came a colossal cone of turbulent soa until the two joined together in an ' enormous black pillar some quarter of a mile broad at the base and probably a good thousand feet high, uniting as it did the "clouds and the sea below. Across the darkening sea, against the threatening copper crimson sunwt, came this gigantic horror, waltzing over troughs of torn up water" in" a veritable' dance of death, like something blind,, but mad and cruel, trying to. find sthd shatter qui* fragile little ship." ■*' ■"'-..