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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 124, 13 September 1876, Page 3

Tito first thing (says the PhU MnU (ka>tt«) n marked in England Hy the intelligent foreigner is the poverty of a people wallowing in wealth. Nothing more astonishes the strangers (Bind here tliaa the- juxtaposition, the mixture of Meanness and toagnitieence. The cause is ,900 a learned. We islanders will spend [thirteenpence ont of a shilling, when the lontmental only spend* elevenpence. And j*liy do- families migrate ahreud for tewjßumy * The price ol a pound of bread h Mich the same in moat part* of the ctvilsait world. The troth is that what we fcum. necessaries in England, we find tc hi luxuries abroad ; economy resntta from Jot paying less, f>nt from wanting less. we eat tow mtteh ok at ; once | k (by ahotrld suffice for all save the wduat-wwr&ed of working men. \Ve finfe too- mite.*; "dirt'etsihte sttiuntants " •Mrfd net fee ctaed, except by invalids *l tuta in the day; and the modem s%n «1 "drops" and p'ck-mc-itjxV' "'garly called "nips," wooid rwtn "he longest cunsCtutien. We smoke too [i«c u Widely said titer Hottg-» of yore to •,«<r nc r r» r "Let not the smoke of the ; ' l Pe»» up between thee and the aun !" j ;«' peaaihk, worse than that of, ** (* *«fe and drive even in cabs, When we Trfd walk; we pass onr evenings at wosive enttrtainintnt!* instead of cheap utaeles; in fact, we do a number of Qs» which nuke life, so economical tad, dear hi England. The redaction ftvea small incomes may do immense i »as^,'>i»*iHWA; « ^