Brevities.
Official declaration of the poll to-day! Passed off very tamely! Votes remain the same! Bat this wasn't the case everywhere !
Seems hot! Mackenzie was reported as having got in for/Waikaia by three votes, but the tables have now been turned! Valentine has a majority of one! Pretty close out of 1200! Suppose Mackenzie was carried shoulder high! That's the best of the joke! And of course there were the usual toasts after the result was announced, and the customary congratulations! And now to find that he has been beaten !
Well, it most be galling, but this world is made up of disappointments ! Roman Catholic concert to night in the Academy of Music! Committee have worked hard to make the affair a success, and have put forward an excellent pro* gramme! " Ought to draw a bumper home 1 Misses Styak, Kilgour, Foy, McLough4an, and Tooher are to take part!
Then you mustn't forget Mesdames, Bruee and Lawless, and Messrs Vowles, Jones, Dempsey, Woodward, Catran, and Wiseman!
Large number of tickets have been sold, so there can be no doubt it will be a success !
Talking about success brings to recollection the Hikutaia discovery 1
Always a calm after a storm I Never hear the find mentioned now ! Nothing to be said about it! No work being done on the reef!
Well, it seems a pity to break it down! Mightn't look so well afterwards!
Same remarks apply to Waiomo discovery ! Mustn't touch the face, you know!
But people are not to be caught so easily now-a-days! They must see a good show before they'll speculate, so the sooner work is energetically carried on the better for all concerned!
That sounds all very well! But suppose the gold runs out! Can't sell then ! Ami the prospector who thinks he has only to report a gold discovery to have people running after him to buy him out, is also " sold!" Better for him to prove the ground as far as possible, and if the gold's there, capital will soon be forthcoming ! Hope these " finds" will tarn out all right, but it looks as though it was a kind of epidemic just now I
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 2
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