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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 24 March 1892, Page 2

It is unfortunate, says Mr Christie Murray, that Australian* see the worst types of Englishmen. English parents give their incorrigibles a " last chance/, make them a present of £100, and send them off to Australia. English cockneys travel in the colonies, offensively attempt to patronise their hosts, and gratuitously flaunt the assumption that colonists are necessarily inferior to bom^e-bred people. 'Met a little girl tb' other day/ says the eye-glassed idiot, beaming fatuously round the table, ' little colonial girl, don't you know. She'd read George Eliot. Never was more surprised in my life.' 'And this to a company of Australian ladies and gentlemen born and bred,' re* marks the writer. When Mr. Murray went to the Bluff in JHew Zealand to touch • the southernmost gas-lamp in the world,' he saw a Scot leaning against that ] lamp* post in a state of abject drunkenness, and, as Stevenson says of a similar personage^' radiating in dirt ani humbug.' 'Et's a nice leetle cqal ; ny, ? said the man, 'but it wants iaergv, arid it wants enterprise, and its wants (hie) shobri -ty.' Cobbe and Darragli 1 have purchased a big lot of wholesale samples of towelf, umbrella^ carpets, corsets, underskirts, pants, and hosiery. These goods have been bought at a big discount off regular prices, and will be sold cheap for cash. —Advt. Further novelties have been added to the stock of electroplated ware in the show case. These include some beautiful designs in butter, sugar, and biscuit jars, cruets, toast-racks, jelly jars, in fact the stock must be seen to be properly appreciated.— Bed House, Kimbolton Road.— Advt.