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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 38, 15 January 1897, Page 6

He Looked to His Talent.— There was one Hambleton, a ■'■ood bass singer in his time, who lived to a great age, and latterly played old men in provincial theatres. One day, when travelling on the top of a stage coach, it was overturned, and he rolled down a steep bank into a ditch below. His fellow-travellers, who had landed on the roadside, thought him dangerously wounded, if not killed. They descended the slope in great haste, but their fear subsided when they found him ljing upon his back, running the gamut. Coming to the lowest note, he exclaimed: "I thank God my (jis all right." Fear »avo way to laughter, and the vocalist was lifted out of the mud by willing hands. Mr Gawne. of Dunedin (says the Southland Taunt of April 13 IS!) I), has just been on a visit to Invercanjill to push business'a little. Not that it wants much canvassing, tor since he commenced the manufacture of his Worcestershire Sauce, the demand has kept pace with his capacity to supply it. He makes a really good thin«indistinguishable from the famous Lea and Pcrrin's, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that to secure a steadily growing trade. Those who have not yet tried the colonial article should put their prejudice aside for a time and test the question with a bottle or two. — Advt.

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