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A country settler • walked five miles in the rain to hear Father Hays’ lecture. When ho got to tho town the hotels-were closed. . A correspondent writes that drapery, sales are a bigger evil than the drink traffic, and suggests that it should be made illegal for ladies to rnn up bills in finery emporiums. Ho doesn’t know it, but he s advocating civil war. Prohibitionist William Eiohardson avers that in fifty years half the population of Britain will consist of lunatics. Ho ought to.be really thankful he won’t be inolnded in the half. It would bo interesting to know how many of the steerage passengers by the lonic owe their notions of Now Zealand to agents in London, who got a big commission on every person booked ?
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1518, 28 July 1905, Page 4
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