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• THOSE #(}RRir> PRINTERS, 'Vplumes coulr? be Wittei) about iWftbBuyd -mistaken which, wbetliev rightfully or wrongfully, We been Liirl at the door of the unfortunate printer— mistake? whioh are provouative of ju»t. the* amount of Amusement to the render that they are matters for pxpcratieq by the unfortunate' \yriter. \y e have all , he'^V of the, B«'"r>b6 whose heroine was transformed from a " bonny Ibsr " into n " bonev lug, " by r.he tlie simple mauipulatiou •of the printer's fingers, but we question if his oboler was so excercised a« must have been that of 'the writer of the last lender m the. Foxt.on journal. In the' course of the article the the author wished to state that "between I'oxton and P^i^ukariM> u fV ot
acres of the finest sand ii. New Zealand, '* but the intelligent composite* sufctsituted an"l" fnr an "s,"; and the sentenoeappeared, with land for sand. The ridiculousness of thp mistake. can only be thoroughly; relished by those who hare- travelled over, the Zaliara'in question. ;y ;- . ; .•■...
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 2
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181UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 2
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