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(Wellington Lance.) Still another brilliant pearl has been fouud in a candidate’s speech: " I rejoice,” ho said, “ to seo you here to do nouor to whom honor is due.” An up country gentleman offered a reward for “ several ducks strayed from my premises.” He reoeivod, by roturn post, a pre paid parcel, containing feathers, with a noto declining to accept any roward. A suburban resident would have built that fowlbouae if tho owner of the timber had not huppened to get up during tho night to frighten tho “ horses ” from the timber stack. A respectable citizen, too. The papers are all agreed that the witnesses in the recent dredging case before tho Arbitration Court were well fed, fat, and rosy. They omit to mention the weight, color, and condition of the shareholders in the averago dredging company,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 683, 1 December 1902, Page 3
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