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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1400, 10 March 1905, Page 2

Thebanks, for whom oven a rues . . r; — ’ u»uu a x'uise urvifiing Withm ton miles is good enough exrvfso or a holiday, all shat thoir doors, arid you can neither cash a cheque nor get ahead of the festivo burglar by making a dopo6it says the Wellington Lance. I'ho wheels' of trade and commerce are chained up. Also, tho gay and sportive civil servant incks over his stool, puts on his coat, and 11 You may have come down from tho backblocks on some vital'publio business, but you've got to cool your heolsin town because the cricket match is on. I Your insurance polioy may have run out, I but it is your own .fault if you didn’t rein, sure before tho Australians started to plav cricket in Wellington. \ “ Why,” said ono of |t°> handful of bakers who put in c at a mooting to consider M&ead Act »n Wellington, « why.-fh '°o/ 0 batchfjr b(j free from laws about ? Jf * man buys sis pounds oi*pw sloak, .sind finds that thero are only five pounds left whon it is cooked, tho butcher ought to be presocutod for soiling light-weight moat It s only logical; anyway,” he added i n .‘ aignantly when the other bakers laughed at this novel preposition. .