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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 244, 7 November 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

xiEsiGNATioN of Calceaft. —Calcraft 'has announced his intention to shortly retire from an official life, and seek the repose of cultivatiag roses, dahlias, and tulips, for which he has a~"£"feat "taste.-. His successor is said to be one Robert Bichard Evans, a well-to-do farmer of his own land, near Caermarthen, South Wale s, and who has assisted at executions i'o? the last fourteen years, out of pure devotion to the "nobleart." The Corporation of London will pension Calcraft on his full honorariuoi of £1 per week, and the Home Office are asked to supplement this. ' ■/■ . \.^" v .- ■•

It is a bad sign to see a Cockney j Communist with his hat off at midnight explaining the theory and prince pies of true democracy—to a-- lamppost. : ;:^. ; / ; - ' Asr Extravagant Charge.— Every man likes:heing taken for a gentleman and yet no man likes being charged as one—in a, Railway■• > Hbt!er!bill;'\V-v i . : -.^;-. : - "May -avman marry his wife's ter'"?■'' is aVqiie'stion which can only properly answered by the sister 11 self, when the widower pops the cj tion. ■