CHATTY GOSSIP.
(N.Z., Lance.)
A country advertiser expresses himself rather awkwardly. “ There are," he says “ many lines that are cheap and nasty. Call and see our stock, and you will be convinced of this."
If a man steals a horse worth 5s a leg he gets fined JEIO, or goes to gaol, If he steals a £2O bicycle, he gets—probation. Why ?
I An "agricultural expert," giving eviI dence at a Southern meeting re the American Harvester Combine, remarked I that in the days to come “New Zealanders would probably hoe turnips with American drills.” Also, they might cut hay with a bar of soap, or sow grass seed with a bootmaker’s sewing machine. The whole of the officials at the Magistrate's Court hearing of the Terry case treated accused with kindness, not to call it deference. Even the police seemed to feel bound ■to the personification of kindliness.
The first bank at Taihape started its existence in the gaol buildings, You see, they wanted a gaol before they had reason for a bank, ‘Twas ever thus, alas?
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1583, 13 October 1905, Page 2
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177CHATTY GOSSIP. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1583, 13 October 1905, Page 2
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