As constant dripping will wear a stone, so constant howling will stir a Government. provided tha:"there is a ease to be made out.—Waimate Witness.
New Zealand politics much resemble arithmetic, for in both the most insignificant figures appear large when followed by a number* o? noughts.—Christchurch Spectator.
Clergyman (after being rescued from the shipwreck)—" Mr Smith, did I really appear scared when we thought all would be lost ?" M- Smith—" I can't say that vou were scared, but for a man who has been trying to get to heaven, all these years you appeared most reluctant to accept the opportunity.”
It is whispered that an individual who has figured somewhat prominently before the public of late, and who was very solicitous concerning his fair fame and reputation, took a very sudden departure from Auckland by the last outgoing mail steamer. Wherefor, his creditors are verv angry, and are laying their heads together with a view to a warrant that wU! bring him back again. Another example that we don’t know how we love them till we lose them.—Freo Lance.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 246, 25 October 1901, Page 3
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