STORY ABOUT THE PREMIER.
A CHEAP SUIT OF CLOTHES. (Special to Times). WELLINGTON, last night. While he was in London recently, says the Post, Sir Josenli Ward had a run through the East End and was escorted by a detective through Petticoat Lane, Frying Pan Alloy, Brick Lane, Club ltow and other interesting thoroughfares Among all the picturesque vendors, quack doctors and other seekers of the —eople’s money none appealed more strongly to the Premier than an “old clo' ” man, writes the detective to a friend . ini New Zealand. “This man,” he .says! “offered us a suit of clothes first of all for twenty guineas, then for five guineas, then for five shillings, then for two shillings, and seeing that none of us seemed anxious to purchase the suit said to Sir Joseph: ‘Here you are, -governor, eighteen pence, and Lord love a duck, if von haven’t the money I’ll trust you.’ ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2122, 3 July 1907, Page 1
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