WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 1 November 1880, Page 2

WAIMATE.

, (PROM OTJR OWN correspond*}) At the Resident Magistrate's. I to-day, our local chemist wa& ninlteted in the sum of 19s, including selling poison, he not being registered to do ao in the Provincial district of Canterbury. His application to the Registrar in Dunedin for a transfer of registration not having been answered, he took it granted that all was well, and, in faci, it could »ot be shown whether he was Mastered or not, the latest available liat being one for 1878. As he was not, therefore able to prove further than his application to the Registrar in Duneslin, he had topay. The next exciting item is a little bira whispers—you know it is the usual thing for little birds to whisper here—that proceedings will be at once instituted agninsfc our leading mercantile firm for drawing; ant agreements, bills of sale, and other legal documents. Jjs this is poaching llll the the devil's own," wearo likely to ho treated to. some fun. . H§rs a delicious instance of Colonia seryantgaliam ; Scene, Queen - atree, "Waiiftate, Lady and lady visitor out for a walk. Servant, carrying first lady* baby, keeps alongside listening to the conversation, all smiles and attentionLady visitor to servant : " Your Pj 8 "® 1 behind, my dear» with, baby, not ° Mrs. an,di me." Servant: ' you ur, iga x am;. I forgot. a' r always cfu go before the broom.