Walter Besant declares in the Queen that the first overt act of the negro to assert his civilisation is to buy a piano, the next to buy a mosquito curtain, though the mosquito has never yet been found which could cause him the slightest incon- , venience.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5769, 13 January 1897, Page 3
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46Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 5769, 13 January 1897, Page 3
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