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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2860, 26 August 1916, Page 12

A housewife in St. ICilda, Melbourne, tells this attractive little anecdote as an instance of the heights to which feminine cheek will rise. Sho had a caller at about eleven o'clock on Sunday night. The caller was a young woman of about twenty-four, rospectaffly dressed and . decent looking. ,f Y6u advertised for a servant?'' said the stranger. "Yob, I did, but ." "It is a curious timo to call, is it not? "I was coming on Saturday, but an accident delayed me. 1 have only been able to get about again since late this evening. Are you suited ?" The housewife was not suited, and, having heard a plausible talc, resolved that this girl would do. "I hoped I would be engaged," said the young woman, "and have left a noto with a carrier to have my dress baskets delh-ered hero on Monday. ' The fact is, I did not want to go back to the Coffee because! cannot afford it.. If you will tako hie on at once I shall be so much obliged." Sho was taken on. She slept at the house on Sunday | night, sho had breakfast on Monday morning, and twenty minutes later sho appeared, dressed' to leave. "After all," she said, "I don't think the placo will suit mo." Tlio housewife was very indignant, but her reproaches only drow this amassing response: "Tlio fact is, I missed my last train on Sunday night, and thought I would stay here.". Messrs. Dalgoty and Co. will hold a stock sale at Levin on August 30. Mr. H. li. Lcighton. land and estate agent, 182 Foatherston Street, inserts particulars of two farms ho has for sale on tlio Manawatu line. Farms, busineses, houses, and land propositions are advertised for sale or exchange by Messrs. Harcourt and Co., land agents, Lambton Quay. Particulars of properties appear in the advertisement. The household furniture of Mrs. S. C. Barraud. "The Gabies," Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt, will bo sold by auction by Messrs. A. L. AVilson aud Co., on Tuesday afternoon next. The third term of the Napier Boys' High School will begin on September 1,1. There are six vacancies in the school. Particulars can bo bad from tlio secretary. Tlio pedigree dairy cattle of Mr. C. H. Hopping, Palmcrston North, will be sold by auction by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. at the farm, on September G. Particulars are advertised.