TOKOMAIRIRO.
(From our Own Correspondent). Having nothing of any moment to coin? niunicate this week, with the exception of your contemporary having offended some of his best customers in inserting a local, on the vice of "Yankee Grab" in hotels. It has lately been a habit in this neighborhood, instead of the old-fashioned way of tossing for drinke, to play "Yankee Grab " for them. I for one see no great evil in it. For instance, I -myself could not avoid asking two friends to • have a glass of something with me (God knows I could ill enough spare the Is. 6d.), so to avoid that I attempt to get out of it as honorably as I can.' At the entrance of the hotel j / we meet the landlord, and I propose " Yankee I Grab" for three drinks. The landlord (a jolly j J good fellow) says "all right;" so he and I play "Yankee Grab," and the result is, I win, and save my Is. 6d. It is what I call a genteel tray of shouting for friends j therefore, I think that we all should have a kindly feeling for the hotelkeepen, considering the many annoyances they have to put xip with. ]
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 13 June 1868, Page 3
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