A Hard Case.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 6

A Hard Case.

' Don't you tind the life of a tramp very disagreeable ?' ' Not generally ; but I'm very much downcast to-day. ' ' Really V ' Yes. I'm the victim of misplaced confidence.' ' How's that.' ' Well, I saw a grocer wrap up a box of sai dines and lay it on the counter. I "Tabbed, for it and ran. I loped about two miles before I opened it, and then I found a cake of soap. I had struck the wron£ package. No, lite isn't always a bower of roses.

& CR.OWMiL are b&inn& Furniture and (Jaipets very cheap. Iron Bedsteads and tipving Mattresses at greatly reduced p, ice-. Bidding of all kinds ready for delivery. Oil Cloths from Is. square yard. Linoleum from 2s 3d. Blankets, sheets, quilts, curtaiiib, and all furnishing' roods splendid value. Wire Wove Mat tresses mueli cheaper than they used to be. A strong Iron Bedstead and Wire Wove Mattress for 55s cash. Simple Iron Bedstead and Wire Wove Mattress for 38s cash price. Our goods are carefully packed, eve paid to prevent damage bv : "™\ n^ uv »U your household goods from ■'I&LICK and CRANWELL, Cat*** ,-;.kcra : Qneen ibreet. Auckland 1 There has just died in Hackney a centenarian Jew who acted as guide to Napoleon and was present at Waterloo. A woman 108 years of age is living at Pyle, Wales, who has a daughter 87 years of age. <.■-•'■'