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The Czar’s head is aching, according to i the cablos. A billyeook hat would suit i him better than a crown. The soaroity of the peaoh crop is said to bo due to tho fact that the rats climb the trees, pick the fruit, and take it away to their homes. A divorced husband down South has been imprisoned for stealiug from his exwife’s dress pockot. He should be released, and made chief detective of.the colony. Schools will be required in New Zealand for all time. Possibly that is why the Government always builds weather-board boxes for school accommodation. Doubtless thp burnt Berhampore schoolhouse will be replaced with another temporary structure. A recently-created J.P. astonished the natives by pnnearing on the benoh for the first time attired in correct full-bottomed wig and evening dress. An agitated aourt .i clerk seized him bodily, and hastened him away. He has since been found accommodation in a mental hospital.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1426, 10 April 1905, Page 3
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158LANCE ITEMS Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1426, 10 April 1905, Page 3
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