CLUB SWINGING.
WASTE OF GOOD TIME,
Per Press Association. Napier, laßt night. Mr T. B. Bax, of Wairoa, started tonight on an attempt to break the world's club swinging record of 40 hours 10 minutes, put up by the Now Zealand Tom Burrows at Capetown. Mr Bax has set himself the task of keeping the clubs going for 50 hours.
Suicides are increasing, and (birth-rates diminishing everywhere except among uncivilised races. Wo have not the courago of our ancestors. —Lance. Cattle aro much doarer in Frasertown than in many other places, Dannevirke for example, where bullocks are quoted at £7 10s, while in this district they are £lO 10s, and cannot bo got (Gr (ess (says a correspondent to the Wairoa Guardian). This loaves no margin of profit for the butcher?. Sheep are correspondingly high, and no doubt things v/ill soon begin td look a bit livelier, for I am told by business-people that matters wero never in such a depressed state as at present. The Maoris do not seem to have much monoy. It all goes, it is said, to fatten lawyers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1046, 13 November 1903, Page 3
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