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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 89, 9 December 1890, Page 3

Give the highest price for Gold, Messrs Litchfield & Son and Copper, Also for Farm and Dairy Produce, in exchange for Goods.

The Egmont Settler says:—“New Plymouth nearly blew the breakwater away the other day. Orders had been given to prepare the ‘ 7-inch 6|--ton ! gun to salute the direct s.s. Matafcua when she should pass en route to Waitara. After a wheelbarrow of stones, &c., had been extracted, a quarter -charge of powder—.just to warm her up —was rammed in-and fired. Dire result: The derrick shaken, the onlookers postrated, and the Harbor Board office window blown in. When the steamer did pass it was deemed more discreet to. waft her a bunting salute. Let us be grateful.” The above is about equal to the attempt at duckrshooting in Havelock.

Who wouldn’t be a crack jockey? Tom Hales, one of the finest in the land, when weighting for a race, rises at 4 a.m., takes a heavy dose of medicine; runs two mi'os on a track in flannels; makes a dinner off a bottle of citrate of magnesia; fakes a steam bath; a cold plunge bath; a sweat and a scrub; a four mile walk at night and goes to bed without bis supper at 11 o’clock. Such princely living is enough to tempt au arclu rilc.

The wife of Senator Davis of Minnesota is able to make this extraordinary statement: ‘ When 1 was ten years of age my aunt bought me a patti rn, some cloth and black velvet, and |ffkne I must make a gown, which I JwJgrcally to her satisfaction and my oifiu and the envy of my little playmates. From that time to the presant day 1 have nut paid one cent to a dressmaker or a milliner, nor has any one else done so for me, Every dress, (lat, ami bonnet 1 I weir ia maije and Iflirmiril' by 'my own’ hands.' No w’mder Mr Davis g-t rich.

A temperance editor at Lincoln, Nebraska, -lately found a coffin on h ; s doorstep, pined there by the Jltpi v ip m to indicate \\k fate if lie continued to t! p 1 rscni'o” them. He roH i for f® e-t d l >;hu>', fttul handed n pr tlm in n.-y U‘ \h« W'.nt.'H'a Phitajm Tempi ranee I'tilon,