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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 7

While journeying into Rotorna in a conveyance a day or two aso (suys the "Tsot I.afces Chronicle"), a settlor of To Puke was overtaken by a gentleman on horseback. Tiio rider was tired, nnd so was his steed, so by way of r<*tin? Jamself . and his horse, and at the same time harini; a chat with the sstticr, he dismounted, tied his horse to the rear of the wajjon, and tcok n scat beside the driver. . After tho nsnal exchange, the conversation drifted on the ballot that had talcen place at. tho general elections on JVconilwr 7. Ifeferencs was made by the settler to tho "bump" that tho Government had f;ot at the elections, and, proco;<Jinp!, he said, "That chap tint oprosed Ucrries for tho Tauranga seat did ffpt a bnmp, too, and a hard- one, Don't von think so?" said he, appealing to his newly-mado acquaintance. "I'm the chap," said his companion, who was none other than Mr. IJ. Kinff, of To' Puke, who enjoyed the joke even moro so than did the settler. Upon an average, Scotsmen are the tallest men in the United Kingdom; Irishman conw second, Englishmen third, aod Welshmen last,