A Question of Cabbages.
Marlborough is happy, and the Express triumphant, because that Province has beaten Wellington in the matter of cabbages. Some two years ago (says the Wellington Post J we incidentally noticed the export to Blenheim of a cargo of cabbages. Since then cabbages have apparently been rankling in the mind of our contemporary, who now accuses us of having " crowed and clapped our wings" at Wellington being in the proud position of exporting cabbages to Blenheim. We now learn, after a very long interval, that the Express was " under the impression at the time that in ordinary commercial transactions the vendor was not in the habit of chaffing his customers." Now, without debating the problem whether an export of cabbages comes within the category of "an ordinary commercial transaction," we may be allowed to disclaim the insinuated imputation of having been concerned in the commercial transaction in question. It was never our distinguished honour to cater cabbages for the delectation of the Blenheimites, and if the person who did so chaffed his customers, it was very wron<» of him. The Blenheimites, however, have achieved a noble revenge, for after having during the interval devoted all their energies, mental and otherwise, to the cultivation of cabbages, the Express is at last enabled triumphantly to announce that the "ever revolving wheel of fortune has reversed the position" of Wellington and Mailborough in the matter of cabbages, and that on two recent occasions Marlborough whs enabled to send Wellington "a considerable quantity of that popular esculent." We are thankful for our .contemporary's " sincere hope that its Wellington friends will long continue to purchase and enjoy" the cabbages, and assuming that we are included in the number of friends in question, we have no hesitation in saying that we are quite prepared to also enjoy the bacon which the Express boasts can be sent along with the cabbages if desired.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 198, 26 August 1873, Page 7
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319A Question of Cabbages. Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 198, 26 August 1873, Page 7
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