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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7759, 10 March 1905, Page 3

At tho Methodist Conference in Wellington on Thursday, the second reading of stations .was carried. Amongst the changes are : New Plymouth, seCom| Itev. It. F. Williams ; Hawera, Revs. S. J. OibSon and A.

"I had a glass or two 100 much on uccount of the Australian cricket match." was the excuse tendered in court at Christcliiirch by a cotivjval cabby. Itut it availed him'not (says an exchange), the Bench assumed its judicial frown, mid called on the erring one to increase {he country's revenue by the sum of £1 sterling. A gentleman who recently spent a few months in ' Christchurch (spates the Timaru Toat) was asked on his return to England to deliver an nddross on New Zealand to' the members of a social club In his native town. He readily complied with the truest, and appears from the account of his remarks supplied by a correspondent, to have represented some colonial clmrncterist its rather quaintly. .'New Zealand," he is reported to have said, "'is a plac« where, things are upside, down. Labourers turned out every morning to their work on horseback, while the employers followed on foot. Bishops rode on biqycles, ami bank managers land members of Parliament went to business wearing caps and dirty shoes. Many farmers had an annual clearing sale, and sold house and home, ami everyone turned up and made a picnic of il. The same people living at Home would leave their, homesteads only at thy, point of the bayonet, bu{ a uoionial would sell hjs grandmother if he could mukc a profit out of' her. In the country wealthy farmery might be seen work-' ing in dungarees, whh bits of flux for laces, and in the town clerks and shop girls dressed like dukes and [duchesses, but never thought of pairing for their clottes,"