Mr George Augustus Sala, according to the London correspondent of the Australasian, received the nice little screw of £l5 15s a week for his weekly column of “ Echoes.” He acted also as dramatic critic for the Illustrated London News, in which the “ Echoes” appeared, and it was because the proprietors of that journal wished to engage the services of another gentleman as theatrical authority for the paper that the great G. A. S. cut up rough and resigned. He had written the “ Echoes " for the Illustrated News for eleven years.
The Thames people have a plain spoken Mayor. In the report of a recent Borough Council meeting there we come across the following “gem”:—The Mayor: Surely, Cr McAndrew, you have a little common s ense left. Cr McAndrew: Well, I think I have. The Mayor: Then for God’s sake exercise it, and don’t talk such nonsense.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 11 August 1887, Page 2
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