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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2092, 5 December 1879, Page 3

! What the country wants Summer boarders. It is best to look on the bright side of things especially on mirrors. The city papers arc snapping their fiugurcs at the eastern journals, and swelling with pride at the decency and quiet of our election. These patroits overstep the modesty of nature, and protest too much. It is quite true that we do very little fighting and roaring about the polls, but the reason is that we empty our pistols into each other the day before the election.— “jN t cws Letter.” A gentleman from the provinces went into the shop of a Lulevard taylor to order some clothes. While his measure was being taken, he said to the sartorial Aristarchus —“You must ■find that I am very badly dressed.” “Oh no,” replied the artist, “you arc not .dressed at all; you are simply covered.”