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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 6

A stock salo will bo held at Palmerston Nortli on Thursday next, November 2i. Messrs. F. and D. Edwards, Nelson, advertise a. business for salo in this issue. Mr. David .Kay, land agent, Auckland, advertises particulars of a farm for sale. Lady (inspecting house)—"l suppose they say this house is haunted?" Curator —"Haunts? 1 make naught o' them haunts. Them what's gone to t' right place don't want to come bock again, and them what's -gone to t'other place, they won't let 'em." . ■ '■ . "It says here," began the. lady who could do more talking in one day than six phonographs and five parrots combined, "that after a balloon has ascended to the height of six, miles its occupants daro not open their mouths." "Will you go up, Marie, if I buy a balloon?" asked her husband desperately. "They tell mo you're working hard night and day sinco you woro up before the magistrates for pushin' your husband about, Mrs. Robinson?" "Yes, tho magistrates said if I came before him again he'd fino mo'forty shillings." "And so you're. workin' hard to keep out of mischief?" "What? I'm. working hard i to save up. tho fine,"-