An Australian contemporary facetiously remarks that Mr Beuben Eose, of Monaro, sent Sir« Henry Parkes a peacock lately^ On. the principal of vain things to the vain, we suppose. Sir Henry had the bird cooked and served up at a banquet. When two things', of the same kind come together\one always absorbs the other. Hamlet : " The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold." Hobatio :"It is nipping and an eager air, my Lord." (Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1.) As in the time of the Royal Dane and courtly Horatio, so lately, to use a very common expression, the weather-has been " bitterly cnld." For the present , wintry temperature we have/imported thousands, of yards of the best makes in Flannels and bales upon bales of superior Blankets at Te Aro House, Wellington* '
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2
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130Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2
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