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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 442, 15 October 1880, Page 3

In answer to a correspondent the Standard says :—" Lizzie H."—We cannot inform you whether the Rangiora Discussion Class intend to discuss the question you mention : " If a man has a tiger by the tail, which would be the best for his personal safety—to hold on or to let go ?" The Class, however, have got a very interesting subject for their next evening's debate, which will, no doubt, be interesting to members of your sex. The Ross Advocate mentions:— " There are at present employed on tho Grey mouth harbor works one man and a boy. The former's employment is standing at case eight hours per diem taking stock of and the exact position ot each boulder as it rolls away into the Grey River. The latter's work is to hie to the Resident Engineer, at these intervals with the news—' Another boulder gone sir.' "