Fob kicking^ a policeman and sitting on his hat, a Melbourne rough was fined £20, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. It is said that the Jewish rabbi of the great Synagogue at Berlin receives the highest salary voluntarily paid to any living preacher, £4,160 a year. The Saturday Half-Holiday.— The total number of persons in Dunedin who have pledged themselves by signature not to shop after one o'clock on Saturday, is 4,660. „ Mabbiage Cebemony as too Often Performed. — Clergyman (to lady): " Wilt thou take this noble-raansion-carriages-jew-els - self-wheeling - Bath-chair -flannels-pil-lows -and -all-appliances-for-the-gout to be thy wedded husband ?,"— " I will." Clergyman (to gentleman) : " Wilt thou take this bale-of-cotton-Muscovite-chignon- Grecian bend -and high - heeled-shoes to be thy wedded wife?"— <'lwiii."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 68, 19 March 1872, Page 2
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