The following correspondence lately passed through a telegraph office in the .Worth Island:—"l lent you five pounds one year ago to-night. If you havo not had it long enough, keep it a yaar longer." To this delicate hint the following answer wa<= returned :—" Had forgotten it, and hoped yon had. Let it run another year." A Presbyterian congregation, not a hundred miles from North Dunedin is just now In a state of distraction over no less a source of trouble than a strike in the choir. The young lady members, it appears fr/>m a local paper, were accused of unseemly levity during service, under cover of the screen surrounding their euclosura, and someoue in authority, to give them a hint, probably, that their doings had been noticed, took the screen down. This was highly disapproved of, for the choir members took umbrage, and discord now reigns where once all was harmony. The Australian Mammoth Minstrels, Eays the Auckland "Star," are a dead failure in England. Dick Thatcher writes saying that "he's afraid he'll starve in a London garret."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2154, 20 January 1881, Page 3
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178Untitled Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2154, 20 January 1881, Page 3
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