BUSINESS AND PLEASURE.
In some branches of the public service ;in Victoria (says ; the Leader) it would appear as if business and pleasure were happily combined. The employes upon a certian branch railway line, at all events, contrive to fill in their leisure yery comfortably. The time-table here requires the detention of a train at the station for a. period of some three hours, so to. prevent the engine from getting rusty, the booking clerk and a companion or two are in the habit of taking it easy and g ing fishing. Theyruh up the line amiieortwo to a rippling little^creek where very good sport can be sometimes enjoyed, and here the period of- delay is passed very pleasantly. In official documents this process is described as " waterring the engine," •
Thackeray, the man who was killed jin the fight" at Orange, N.S.W., recently, was, it is said, a nephew of the celebrated author, W. Makepeace Thackeray
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 83, 27 March 1883, Page 3
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