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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 4

The "War Cry" contains as many lies to the square inch as an angler's journal. If all the conversions recorded during the past 20 years were true (and they never happened) the Harmy would be a mammoth institution, twenty times bigger than it is. There may have been a devil of a lot of backsliding, however. .

Sermons were, preached m all the Nelson churches last Sunday week for the denunciation of gambling. The wailing of the wowsers was ineffective, for\ althouph rain caused a postponement, the Nelson meeting came off subsequently alright, and nobody was struck by lightning as a sien of the Loard's displeasure.

It was at Balclutha, and the everreciirrins: "Eatit Lynne" was being murdered. "Why don't I die ?" shrieked the Lady Isabel. "Oh, why don't I. die?" "Wish ter Gawd yer's would, missus !" came back an agonised voice from the back seats, and the audience, instead of weepiiis: pitying tears for the sufferings of h?r ladyship, nearly had hysterics.

A yoim.2; hopeful hopped into the Christchurch-Dunedin dining car with his fond pa t'other day ami proceeded to business. Started with fish, got outside two great plate fuls of muttr.n •and sundries, and wedired down two goes of .pudding with a couple of slabs of bread and jam. Then the fond x>a nearly knocked the pcrspirine waiter backwards by demanding to know if he was expected to club up two bob for a nipper like that ' Events proved that he was,