Cigarettes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2

Cigarettes.

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Suppose they made Bryce Governor of Ceylon instbad of Gordon ! There are many worse Governor! than John Bryce ! I see you were quite right about the reported Maori outrage ! It was greatly exaggerated ! The pah was burnt, but nobody m it ! We shall very likely htar to-morrow that the pah never was burnt at all ! Yes, and later oh it will transpire that there's no pah at all, but only a raupo whare 1 The fahlo of the three black orowi ought to have been a Maori legeud'l Conolly made rather % mess of it at Picton ! Constituents dissatisfied with hii apathy en local affaits ! Yes, that's the worst' of it, a man may be a most valuable Member for the colony, but no good for the locality. Yes, the best men for the localities are generally the wont men for the colony ! Bring big carpet bags and take' ears to take 'em back full ! Taiaroa high and dry,! The man that bought the cargo for £30 will make a fine haul ! Yes, it's a speculation ! He might have lost everything ! What's this Woolgrowers' Company that we hear such queer things about I I see it's prospectus has bean with drawn from the London Money Market ! Oh I suppose some smart people had a notion that it was more profitable to fleece the British public than to shear sheep at present prices of wool ! But it did'n't come off ? Saems not ! The Chamber of Commerce at Dunedin protested against it I Said it would injure the commercial 1 credit of tha colonj !