Mr Whinray, the well-known cabinetmaker and upholsterer, has just imported an English-made lathe, which is infinitely superior to anything we have seen in the shape of Yankee notions. This machine, in addition to its particular properties, is so constructed as to perform half-a-dozen other duties. Mr Whinray has no objection to oblge the public by permitting inspection during business hours.
A sensational statement was lately made in a London Police Court, in the declaration of a deserted wife who complained that her husband had eloped with his mother-in-law. A staid English journal, commenting upon the case, says :—“ To our mind it resembles the American story which * took forty men to believe it.'"
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1178, 18 October 1882, Page 2
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112Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1178, 18 October 1882, Page 2
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