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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 942, 14 May 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

“ Dear me !” exclaimed a landlady, “it does seem impossible for me to make both ends meet!” “ Well then,” said a boarder, “ suppose you make one end vegetables.” A case of domestic scandal being under discussion at a tea party, one of the ladies said, with a melancholy sigh : “ Well, let us think the best we can of her.” “ Yes, and say the worst; that’s the fashion !” exclaimed another. A Government Gazette ef 24 pages, containing 48 columns of closely-printed “ Rules and Regulations applicable to all servants on the New Zealand Railways,” has just been issued. They are arranged under 20 headings and sub-headings, and comprise no less than four hundred and seventy eight clauses—some of them half-a-foot long—with an appendix ! considering too, that they occupy about 4000 lines, which, in turn, run into something like 30,000 words, it will be curious to watch the progress made by the great army of engine drivers, signal men, pointsmen, firemen, guards, platelayers, linemen, gangers, bridgerepairers, and other workmen employed on the railways of the Colony, in mastering the details contained therein.