Two brave young ladies whilst alone one evening recently were rehearsing how they would despatch a burglar if one suddenly appeared in llieroom. One of the heroines was armed with her brother’s sword and the other flourished a hatchet, In the midst of a rehearsal a frightful monster in. the shape of a nnoi.se, ran across the floor, when one of the girls fainted, and the other smashed a mirror in attempting to climb up the sideboard. A shareholder in a gold mine (or rather a mine so called) received the other day a final demand for payment of a call. In reply he wrote : Sorry I cannot pay up the call. lam not an auriferous lode. You can ‘crush’ me if you like, but the result will not be promising, and the assay will probably yield Gold, nil ; silver, 3s ; copper, 4|d ; total, 3s 4£, from which deduct cost of crushing, say £5 ss,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 8
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