NAPIER
"The festive Johnny is still laying in furniture. The fever scare is dying out — but not the smells.
On dit that a country bank agent will shortly lead to the altar a young lacly of Clive. Since G. left, the shop fn Hastings-street has t>een besieged with love-sick maidens, and there sias been a rush for boots.
At the Church of England tea-fuddle, one of the speakers told the old, old yarn about his .father having been one of the greatest drunkards 'that ever lived, and rubbed noses with himself in .claiming to be the founder of the first teetotal society in New Zealand.
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Observer, Volume 4, Issue 87, 13 May 1882, Page 137
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105NAPIER Observer, Volume 4, Issue 87, 13 May 1882, Page 137
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