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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 953, 18 June 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

It was a Church Convention at which t pastors of a nonconformist denomination h met together, when, at the close of the bu ness, the chairman rose to announce the a journment. Hereupon a middle-aged moc faced brother struggled to his feet, and, looki helplessly through his spectacles, a very w expression on his countenance, with o' hand upon his watch-chain and the other his ear, queried as to whether he was too 1; to propose a motion. “If agreeable,” he sa —and he paused as a spasm of pain contract his countenance—“ I would like to bring forward at once, inasmuch as ” anotl spasm—“ I have been taking medicine ai would wish to leave for home without dekv Probably this was one of the occasions up which even Mr. Gladstone would have ei ployed his new provision for questions “ urgency.” At all events the sufferer g away with his “ motion.”