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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 76, 6 May 1902, Page 4

Patrick : “It’s poor advice ye’vat been givin’ me. Didnt ye say th best toirne to ask a mon a favour was after dinner ?” Bifkins : “I certainly did.” “Well. Oi went to ould Buffers wid th’ schmallest koind av a request, and he refused. It was after dinner, too.” “Are you sure he had had his dinner? “Faith, it’s little Oi know about th’ old Buffer’s ingoin’s and out comin’s ; but Oi had moine.” In the course of a speech at the Drill Hall, last week (the Taranaki Herald reports), Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., ventured into the realms of prophecy, and predicted thatMrSeddon would come back with an earldom and be appointed Governor of New Zealand in succession to Lord Ranfurly, and that the Premiership would be taken by Sir Joseph Ward, thus creating a vacancy in the Cabinet for himself. “If”, said Mr Smith, “any of you go to Wellington you will find my name ticketed on the next seat to the Acting Premier’s in the House. There is only the arm of the seat between us, so that I am getting very near it.” A few days ago a resident of Featherston, one of the principals in an elopement episode, was subjected to the indignity of a tarring process*