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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

We admit we are soft, confiding, and trustful, and as, like George Washington, we cannot tell a lie, we naturally believe all that is told to us. We have, however, been occasiohally humbugged, or perhaps, to speak more correctly, sometimes people try to humbug us, but we invariably discover the little game. The last attempt at this sort of practical joking occurred to-day, when information was given to us that a well-known and much respected tradesman (not Mr J. Lincoln) had been lucky enough to secure a prize of £650 in a sweep on the Melbourne Cup. We did not fall into the trap, but we hashed our teeth when we pondered on the fact that a man who does nothing for a living but daub paint upon walls should hug himself in the belief that newspaper people cannot see a hole through a brick wall as well as other persons. We care not of what nashonality men are, but decidedly object to people trving to induce us to supply our readers with information which i« altogether incorrect.