Crackers!

Golden Bay Argus, Volume I, Issue 123, 30 October 1885, Page 3

Crackers!

One in a hundred ! Or the rarity of the nineteenth century ! Holmes eulogising Hurstbouse ! Hursthouse bully-ragging..'Nelson generally!! Clergy, Lawyers, Merchants, Press, all included ! Rather hoity-toity, eh ? No accounting for language sonny, with some people when their dander’s riz !

But don't you think a little more discretion would have looked and sounded a great deal better ?

To a great'many, yes. But probably the language was suited to the audience ! Hursthouse’s explanation of his repent behaviour re appointing the Railway Com-

mission seeined a complete exculpation of bad conduct, did’nt it ?

Undoubtedly ! The Nelson indignation meeting were in too great a hurry by long chalks !

I hat was rather a rummy thing though to confess about carrying loaded weapons to shoot people with, especially in a J. P. too, eh ?

Stage-effect, my boy 1 All metaphorical ! ! Very likely if the gentleman had been searched the most explosive article that Could have been found on him would have been the last issue of the G. B. A. 1 ! Oh, that’s good !! I savey 1 Crackers, not Revolvers ! Large increase in the navv !

! hat's right, nothing like plenty of sealions! Guess Lord Beresford is at the bottom of that ! Go it Charley, old man ! Keep the Bear at bay !

Piracy i-eceiving a check ! Not before it was wanted, either ! That at any rate is one good result of the Franco-Chinese war ! A set of beggarly thieves that want exterminating ! Very nearly as had as those person > who would go and tar a lady's luggage ! Much of a muchness,lso:my ! Vkrdakt Grekn