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Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3

A variety belle, wishing to be . very severe on a rival, said the only thing that wasn’t false about her was the hole in her stocking. “ Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer ?” was recently very ably discussed by members of a debating society. The conclusion arrived at was that it was not wrong but impossible. The register of the ancient parish church of Oxford, Kent, contains an entry of the marriage of Henry Clark to Sarah Thorp, with a note to the effect that the former was 99 on his wedding day. So no bachelor need despair. A novelty at a dinner party the other evening were paper plates painted by hand, which by some process are made like china. They were served for fruit, and the guests retained them. “ This isn’t a menagerie,” sharply observed an irascible woman to a man who was trying to force his way through the crowd at the door of a concert-room. “ No, I suppose not,” returned the man “or they would’nt leave any of the animals to block up the entrance.”

Cheap Boots— New Goods — Just Opened— THE undersigned has just opened a Large Stock of Hew Goods, which he intends offering to the public at prices which will compel them to buy at the “ CASH BOOT SHOP Ladies’ Kid E.S., great variety Ladies’ Prunella Boots, all prices Ladies’ Shoes, very cheap Gents’ Shooting Boots, unequalled Gents’ E.S., our own make Large stock of Children’s Goods always on hand. All classes of goods made to order on THE SHORTEST NOTICE. H. Goodacre, “ CASH BOOT SHOP/’