"Tis a hard wurrld this, Mrs O'Grady." " r Tis; but there's some dashed soft min in it. I tapped me ould man on the head Avid the back av the axe this inarnin', an' he've made it an excuse to stop home from his wurrk to day." One member of the Education Board asserted in regard to allowances to committees that there was not a school committee in Otago that was not put to its Avit's end as to finance. Any change would come as a welcome relief.
In the Phillippine Islands ladies have a passion for tobacco but they do, not affect the dainty '/tabs'* for which English ladies have a .veakness. The Phillippine ladies'"smokes" are cigars ten inches in length and three inches in circumference. It takes some five or six hours to -exhaust''one' of these logs of tobacco. Seven-year-old children smoke cigars about the size of those consumed by men in Great Britain. Men consume cigarettes.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 61, 14 March 1902, Page 4
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