A COMPLAINT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMARU lIKRALD. Sib, — I am giving you notico which ia fair plsj — that I am going to raise an action against, your paper for wilfully misleading my wife ky making us believe, that the big new steamer was to be in our port to-day. The wife has got a crazy idea into her head about L'oing to the Old Country to sec about a fortine her undo has left her (I don't believe it), aid this morning nothing would please her j but jlie must " lick up" and get ready to pay tho iteamer a visit of ins,', ection. So I was to takemy dinner at the work, and as she oxpectjd an invitation to " take tea" on board as aprospectivu puisengcr, I might have to get toy own as best I could, everything being hnnJy on tho " mantel-shelf." Well, after all this trouble and worry and hurry-scurry, ayo, she avpn went the length of buying a readyma<ie dress so aa to " look fit "— it was a raution hcn-I came home to-nisjht and found the«ld woman in n tearing paision at. the " sell." Sheieavj " H's just li e them puling papers." >'ov, sir, for the sake of my peace and comfor 1 in futurr-, take care when you next announce that a " bin steamer is coming " that ahe does come, else there will be Old Harry to pay. I am, lie, Bill Sykes. [Oar correspondent has onr deepest sympathy and bo has his good lady, but an oip unation which a pears in another column ought to satisfy tho worthy couple. — Ed. T.H.']
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3519, 8 January 1886, Page 3
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270A COMPLAINT. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3519, 8 January 1886, Page 3
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