The Rov. Henry Wood Beeche was a great wit, and now am then he was favoured with written protest from one of hi hearers, which he would read t his congregation and then criti cise. One Sunday morning h said. — “I have to call your attentioi I to a strange communication tha has just reached me. It is hal a sheet of note paper on whicl nothing has been written but tin word 4 Fool. ’ It is no uncommoi thing for the* writer of a lotto to forgot to sign his name, bu this is the first time 1 have eve known a man to sign his naim and forget to write the letter.”
Good sportsmen are not likely to approve of the invention, in Philadelphia, of a new bait for bass-fishing -a wooden minnow, painted red, with a miniature i l . I' it not : • >rture a fish with rag-time! “ Three inmates of the East Sussex County Lunatic Asylum,” it is announced, “ have won £IOO in a competition promoted by a London weekly periodical There seems tu be no need for comment. One of the most interesting exhibits in the Maori section of the Auckland Mu < urn is an ancient flute, it is claimed to be the identical instrument upon which Tutanekai played sweet music on an island in Lake Rot'-rua. causing the dusky beauty Hincmoa to swim across to discover by whom such charming - Hinds were produced. We know Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets to be thoroughly reliable 'i and service— in fact we are prepared to guarantee every pair not to rust, break or tear —Advt.
The Huntly Press. Instructions as to the insertion or withdrawal of advertisements ill:.' \ PRE i must lie in muits rei eived without such instiuctions will be inserted until countermanded. Notice to withdraw advertisemust be given in writing. Advertisements inserted by the month or quarter, and withdrawn at any time before the expiry of a monthly or quarterly period, are charged for as inserted for the full term. Alterations for standing advertisements should be handed in by 12 noon the day BEFORE they are required to appear. Taupiri Coal Minis, Ltd. TAUPIRI COAL The beet Household Coal in the Dominion. Cl AN be obtained at the miuo and ) from all coal dealers in the Waikato. All communications to bo made to the Secretary, Auckland. J. POTHERING HAM, Socrotar y •
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 61, 24 October 1913, Page 4
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