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The pallid penny pontage stamp ■gets more pallid day by. day. No money for magenta paint. Though a man may follow the medical profession, he need not be a doctor. He may he an undertaker. The Earl of Roxburgh is Scotch, lie married a girl withjlwo millions. He is canny—even for a Scot. A recent quaint advertisement asks for a person to make Scotch haggis. Whom has that advertiser ‘-got a down on ?”
The ruling passion is strong in colonial lads. The missing hoy, Hector Macdonald, was found going to some Southern races.
An infallible cure for seasickness has been discovered. All you have to do is to sit under a shady tree for an hour or two. The meanest New. Zealander to date hails from Christchurch. He stole the head lettering at the base of a statue in the saintly city. A Chinaman has just completed an encyclopaedia in 22,937 volumes. ,The Wellington Public Library has not yet ordered the work-.-Bishop Neligan, of Auckland,- has told the ladies up there he lias a new creed ; “ I believe in falling in love^’
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 3
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184LANCE ITEMS. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 3
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