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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 534, 26 August 1881, Page 3

Yes, '• you bet!"— The Evening Post is of opinion that under the new and very stringent laws framed for the prevention of gambling, it will be unquestionably criminal to use the expression " you bet." The following choice extract from a letter read in a recent breach of promise case shows that the " lovyer" must have been very far gone indeed : — " Dearest love, I have swallowed the postage-stamp which was on your letter, because I knew that your lips had touched it." An honest thrifty, well-to-do German in Connecticut city applied to a wealthy landlord, who rents a great many houses. " The house is to let. certainly," said the owner; "ank if, upon inquiry, I find you to be respectable and a reliable man for a tenant, you shall have it." il Veia good, Mr A ,you makes just as many questions as you mind. I takes the house when you gets ready." Two days afterwards the houseowner called upon the German. •' Well," he said. " I've inquired pretty generally respecting your character and means, and as everybody speaks of you as an honest respectable man of abundant property, you can have the house." " Veil, den," said Hans, " I takes de house. And I wants to tell you I've asked all about you among de peoples, and dey all say you is de meanest landlort in de town ; but I takes de house all de same."

J¥ew Advertisements FOR SALE. COWS and HEIFERS, early _-_JtJ calvers. Apply to JAMES DALY. THANKS. GERMAN BAY SIDE SCHOOL. THE Side School Concert Committee beg respectfully to tender their sincere thanks to the ladies and gentlemen who so kindly assisted at the Concert in the Oddfellows' Hdl on August 12th. 1881, in aid of the School Prize Fund. THOMAS H. GILES, Hon. See.