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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 272, 26 January 1875, Page 7

The Waitaki Bridge is 3,630 feet long, more than twice as long as any bridge in England. John Ploughman (the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon) in lus “ Talk” gives the following practical advice : —Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it, and make sure that it means no more than it says. Don’t go to law unless you have nothing' to lose ; lawyers’ houses are built on fools’ heads. In any business never wade into the water where you cannot see the bottom. Put no dependence upon the label of a bag ; and count money after your own kin. See the sack opened before you buy what is in it ; for he who trades in the dark asks to be cheated. Keep clear of the man who does not value his character. Beware of every man who swears; he who would blaspheme his Maker would make no bones of lying or stealing. An Englishman holding forth in the evening in a Scotch hotel to some friends and strangers in the house on the subject of cremation of bodies, in place of the present mode of burial, wound up by declaring that he had about made up his mind to leave directions with his friends and executors that, when he died, his body should be cremated. A canny old Scotchman, who did not relish the inno ration, “ set the table in a roar,” by remarking, “Ye seem to be in a* great hurry, ma freen. A’ that may possibly be ordained to be dune, without any bother to your friends and executors, at the Lord’s guid time and pleasure.”'