PAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCES.
A correspondent sends the following to the Globe :— WHAT J HAVE SEEK. WHAT I SEE XOW. London lighted with oil. With gas. Old watchmen. New police. London mail to Edinburgh by horses in 40 hours. By steam in 10 hours. A letter from London to Edinburgh 12d. Id. Estafette on horse from London to Liverpool in By telegraph in two 18 hours. minutes. Gentlemen in the House of Commons. Adventurers, bankrupts. Gentlemen on the turf. Speculators under false names. Good horses ridden by men. Bad horses ridden by boys. Two and three-mile races. Half-mile races. Fox-hunting. Foxchasing. Sportsmen shooting over Snobs shooting driven dogs. birds. Cock-fighting. Pigeon shooting. Fair, plucky prize-fight- Cowardly stabbing, kicking. ing, biting. Unadulterated food and Adulterated food and drugs. drugs. Three-year-old beef. Two-year-old beef. Four-year-old mutton. Fourteen-month-old mutton. Lucifer matches 3s. per box. Id. per box. Flint and steel guns. Breechloaders, Tenant farmers anxious to Tenant farmers warning show their landlords a their landlords off their good day's shooting. farms. Permanent pastures. Sewage farming. Good Cheshire cheese. Gaseous substance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4519, 14 September 1875, Page 3
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177PAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4519, 14 September 1875, Page 3
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