A pioneer colonist was some time ago (says iEgles in the " Australasian") waiting at a railway station near Melrose for a coming train, and got into conversation with an elderly Scotchman. The latter soon ascertained that our friend had been in Australia. "Do you know many there?" he enquired. "A great in any " was the reply. "And d'ye know Tarn ?" naming the owner of extensive lands. "I know him well, and he is a very rich man." " Aye—and indeed he ought to be." , "Why ought he to be?" enquired the , colonist. "Well, you see," said the native, '* we were schoolmates and often went shooting together. Powder and shot cost money, and we were often short, and ■ used to lend to one another. And the night he went away, said Tarn to me, 'I've , been counting up, Sandie, how we stand : for the powder, and I'll trouble you for r iour-pence ha'penny.' Oh, ah. Tarn ought to have clone weel."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 521, 12 July 1881, Page 3
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159Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 521, 12 July 1881, Page 3
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