THE WEEK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9321, 22 August 1908, Page 4

THE WEEK.

y- -* She that naggeth a man sitteth down lo many a lonely meal. -■ ♦ ' , ,"The physician is the man who tells 3KMi you need change, and then takes •It you have. Z l .' yfoiy did the American fleet? " Tlie $7eqk " cannot find an answer, but tho ' jnosb suitable one sent in beforo next . 'jSatidrday will entitle the sender to a J in the great poem competition in * 1935, and a counter-lunch. ... ♦ • '.^"lSjifeaking likenesses, speaking trumpets and speaking M.P.'s are quite comtnon. Now in the age of airships :. "fee- have the speaking cage, which ap;%>ears to havo been nearly tamed:— ''Gatah. Parrot and Large Cage/nearly ;^peaking, 25s lot; very tame. Apply, b&te-JS' _\\:>: , *. y^T-Dear " Week,"— The aftermath *of '"' j^e Boxing Championships. Fearful -.legend displayed in the window of a ihep in Victoria Street, on Friday: : V' DRIED BLOOD: GREAT REDUC- ;:{;:;,;, TION." '% " Och Be-gore-rah."

ILL 1 - • 7 ' !; f-/j_hey were* taking up 5s subscriptions jglar -the purpose of providing a suitable •■•rtifteral for a constable who had died, »M the absent-minded man passed over "Jj*- pound. "But I only asked for 55," bixplained ihe collector. "Oh, never jpxittd," was the response, " bury four ykf them." p t # .: . ■» jr,C3mo amenities are not confined to Zealand. At Paddington (N.S.W) tihe other day the following little inter--lude took place: — *fy'C%incil-or Smith (to . Councillor toavis): Gh, dry up! r Councillor Davis : I shan't. Why. •', I*7* seen better animals than you at the