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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 506, 20 May 1881, Page 3

Here is another example of a possible mis-concepticn of language. " I fear," said a country curate to his flock, " when I explained to you in my Jast charily sermon that philanthropy was the love of our species you must have misunderstood me to say ' specie,' which may account for the smallness of the collection. You will prove, I hope, by your present contribution that you ate no longer laboring under the same mistake." Wives are won in many ways (writes the Narracoorte Herald. South Australia), but it was left for Narracoorte to dispose of a wife by putting her up to auction with a tent and cooking utens'ls—all in one lot. This wa3 done a few days ?%o about two miles from Narracoorte. A man who had been working here for sorae am 3 was going away, and, not to be encumbered I with any unnecessary hind. , ances, the most cuinbeisome of which was his wife, he offered his effects, consisting of tent, cooking things, and wife, for auction. The highest biddur was a blacksmith, who paid £5, and took over the chatiels (is a job lot, without any objections from t'.ie live stock. After the first feeling of strangeness has worn oil', the only wonder afc this { transaction is that in the present depressed state of business so much as £5 should have bf.-cn obtained at such a clearing out. salej