BOXING.
The result of the Burns—Laing fight did not come to hand yesterday.
The expression " I will eat mv hat" is likely to lose favour with those people who always offer to perform somo wonderful feat in the event of their pronounced opinions being proved incorrect. Two gentlemen recently had a dispute as to the amount of stripping that had to be done after the milking machine,' and one of them offered to " drink all the strippings" left by the " Lawronce-Kennedy-Gillies " machine on a dozen cows. The offor being ac oopted, a teacup was secured, and found ample to hold the stripings, which wero as easily swallowed as the bet was won J. B. MacEwan and 0., Ltd., sol> agents, Routh's Buildings, Wellington.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19080903.2.16
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 3 September 1908, Page 4
Word Count
123BOXING. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 3 September 1908, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.