A stranger. passing along the -'treet, stopped, and listened with twe outside the closet door of one >f the houses. Inside, he heard a iTCat hullabaloo of voices, uttering hreats, j-ecrimiiial ious, and pro. :ests, emphasised by thumps as of ists on tables and sticks on the. loor. "What is. the matter inside ?" ask>d the stranger of an old man who sat placidly smoking on the doorstep. "Oh. it's nothin' at all, your lonour —nothin' at all. at all." was .he reply. "There's a little family lil'frsnce wid the Murphys, an' they :uk it to the court ; but the magistrates adjourned, the case to sec if ;.he two soitles couldn't come to ap amicable settlement. They've settling it amicably now, sorr !"
Architect, WESLEY BUILDINGS, Hamilton, Waikato.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 111, 30 November 1908, Page 4
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