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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 17 December 1897, Page 36 (Supplement)

In the famous Garden of Olives, at Jerusalem, there are eight flourishing olive trees that are known to be over 1000 years old. The fastest shearer at the Brancepeth station this year is the well-known Masterton Moari, " Moses." His highest tally for one day is 1 !)."). In the course of a speech at a social gathering, specially arranged by Mr. J. Fitzgerald, President of the Celtic Club, the Hon. Dan O'Connor, ex-Postmaster-General of New South Wales, stated in emphatic terms his '• experience of his fellow-countrymen every where to be their readiness to extend forbearance and support pro miscuously to all classes, whilst exhibiting a corresponding spirit of criticism and lack of loyalty to those of theit own race."