Late Shipping.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, April 11. Sailed : Waimate, for Auckland. In Victoria the wheat crop this season is ahead of last year by over two bushels to the acre. We have three kinds of people in the world—the wills, the won’ts, and the ean’ts. The police at Kaiapoi the other day arrested a tramp who threatened to burn u house down if the inmates did not give him what he wanted. It was stated at the milkmen’s meeting, held in Christchurch last week, that the jugs left by many people at their back doors for milk are disgracefully dirty. “Many a jug,” said one member, “has the last night’s beer still in the bottom of it when it'is left for the milk to be put in.” The British Bull dog rules the wave, Undaunted tar is he, And angry billows oft his grave, Can’t turn him from the sea. The hardship’s of a sailor’s life ' He can so well endure, When coughs and colds are always rife, With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 80, 12 April 1901, Page 3
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174Late Shipping. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 80, 12 April 1901, Page 3
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