‘Truth ’ Clippings.
New buildings to the value ol 1210, 000, according to the Herald, are in course of erection in Taranaki. There’s money in butter and eggs after all. Reported there are 1300 cases of influenza in Nelson.
Scholar up North received a nasty injurv to his hand through being struck over the knuckles with a ruler. More football nomenclature. The * Waituna Gory-Bleeders ’ and the * Halcombe Bruisers.’ Where, oh, where is the New Zealand Rugby Union ?
Latest football Club title—‘Greymouth Swainphens.’ They’re getting on. Surely the limit to the absurdity is nearly reached. An exchange copy of a Northern paper received by us was highly scented with eucalyptus oil. The publisher must have been suffering from the prevailing epidemic when he enclosed it in a wrapper.
Over £2OOO worth of poultry imported into the Australian colonies during last twelve months. Judging by the success of the New Zealand shows the item will soon turn into ‘ exported.’ Railway servants are agitating for classification. Let them wake full enquiry first as to whether the Post and Telegraph scheme has panned out all right. Nothing like going easy. Who thought the shindy between the Chinkies and Japs would be beneficial to New Zealand ? No one. But it will. Listen to this. The Christchurch agents for the Westport Coalbrookdale coal are negotiating with the Japs for the supply of 50,000 tons for the fleet, and, to show that
there is no favouritism, they are also on the alert to secure an order from China. What, ho! The clan McClatchie displays real grit. May their coal win the battle. It will be Westport or bust. An old toper was ill in the hospital with fever. ‘ Will you give me something to drink ?’ he asked, faintly,
of the nurse. * Certainly, sir,’ said the nurse, offering him a glass of water, lie put up his hand feebly. ‘ Give it to me in a teaspoon, please,’ he whispered huskily, ‘ till I get used to it.’
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 763, 10 August 1894, Page 3
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327‘Truth’ Clippings. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 763, 10 August 1894, Page 3
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