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Globe, Volume I, Issue 28, 2 July 1874, Page 3

The Sultan, riding out incognito, came on an old man sowing olive stones. ' How old are you ?' asked the Sultan. • Ninety,' replied the ancient. —' Why, you old fool, you never expect to reap what you are sowing, do you V —'No,' answered the old man, ' but others do. If my forfathers had not planted these stones, I and my family would have fared sorely indeed.'

LOOKHERE. Cheap Boots Cheap Boots ' JOHNSON begs respectfully to inform %} • the public that he has commenced business as Boot and Khoewiaker in the premises lately occupied by Mr J. Woodard, and is prepared to sell Boots and Shoes cheaper than any other house in Canterbury. Boots of every description mode to order, and repaired. Note the address— J. JOHNSON, Whately road, next Mr Goss' Timberyard.

[ A.DVEETISEMENT. I ORTH ER N BUTCHERY. J. ROUNTREE, NORTH COLOMBO STREET. J.R. begs to announce the opening of his New Establishment in North Colombo street ON FRIDAY, 4th JULY. MESSRS FAT, MUTTON, AND PRIME BEEF Will hold a LEVEE at the NORTHERN BUTCHERY every day. Families waited on, and children in arms admitted free. Steaks and Chops given away, and Sausages sold by the mile. N.B. —Dogs and Umbrellas not admitted. VOTE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ROUNTREE'S BUTCHERY. ORIGINAL POEM. Oh, benighted dweller in the city of the plains, * Arisu and bf free, awake ! and shake off your chains ; Ye butchers of Christchurch look out aghast, The raillenium of mutton and beef's come at last: 'Tis Rountree, the butcher, who brings this relief ! His beef is beefier than the beefiest beef ; His mutton and pork—sold without bone— Will do you more good than a new million loan: The fame of his sausages goes, cutting it fat, To the end oE the world—and a mile boyond that. When the Council sits late, and each member is ready to drop, Rountree revives him with a good mutton chop. En oh new chum writes home, a statement to make, That they're getting quite fat upon Rountree's prime steak. It's a glorious fact, deny it who can, Rountree's the butcher—the people's own man ! Colombo street north, and J. Rountree, God save the Queen ! and felo do sc !