WAY SIDE NOTES.
BY AN OCCASINONAL CONTRIBUTOR. The general idea which the Peninsula conveys to a stranger, is that it ought to be flattened out more with an Italian iron. The sun, too, doesn't do his duty. Perhaps some one could be found with a small glass—burning, or other glass—to focus the solar rays and dry up the mud. Among the public works which the BorOugh Council have initiated, they have omitted a town clock. I have seen a plaster of Paris figure of a stout man with a dial in the centre of his stomach. The Councillors might be utilised in this fashion to convey the time of day in turn about the town. There is soon to be a Borough election, it Is said. I know nothing , hardly as yet of the list of candidates: but one is to be seen daily hatching dark plots on a large * bos. This Mayor's nest in posse has more than once discovered itself to the shins of the unwary traveller. Perhaps the owner may have the good fortune to remove' his « seat of honour to another place.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 August 1877, Page 2
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186WAY SIDE NOTES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 August 1877, Page 2
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