BUYING THEM OUT.
We (Nelson Evening Mail) never thought pur railway a very big concern but scarcely expected to find it regarded so paltry an affair as some people appear to consider it, that is i£ the story is true. It was during the holiday time t.hat a \} ell-to-do country settler, whohad evidently been wish m a few — perhaps several— of his friends a happy new r ear, drove up to (he station. His * condition was nnmistakeuble, and one of the officials taking him on one side softly remarked, "You had better not go out to-day - — -." " M c not go out, why 1" " Because you've had too much beer !" " Here, give me a blank cheque." The official was startled, he could not- see the connection between the beer and the blank cheque, and -wonderingly asked* " Blank cheque! Wbatfor?" "Why I'll buy the whole lot up, and then I can travel just when I please." Utter collapse of, railway official.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 3
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