PROVINCIAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 March 1907, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

OKAI'O. I (From Our Own Correspondents.) On Saturday last a further nicotine of the Sports Club Committee was hold, and details of the arrangements w.->v adduced another stage, uot\vitlisl«.'el )ing the fact that some of the eoir.militee were conspicuous by their absence. jlYiTiits haii. been granted by Mi« Tara Inaki Athletic Association and the New Kealand Axemen's Association, so thai tell that is required to ensure success is istiitliiisi'ar.ni on. the pari, of the comSniltee. That ever-wolcome, meek, irild. gentle jpiianneretl individual, the iaxcol'lccUr. :jias l)een liis lounds, and boasts of hav.'ing made a "good haul." Ho report.* having me', one Individual vho :m:l(.' .outvie .Man ■hansen in elinolu.ig n "fairy

S.taio.' On enquiry 1 lind the all'air ceiiiinenced thus. (Fur cviivciicnce let us .(all the tax collector .Mr. T:p. and the dot her fellow Jonah): Couth' Tip: "Have you got a dog here?" Jonah: ''Yes, I have got one which does not belong 11 :me." Tip, will, thunderous voice: "What are you doing with a do- that .doesn't belong to you';' 1 Jonah, all unconscious of (,ou(.le 'lip's identity or vocation: "What has that 10 do with voir; in the first [dace, v,no are you V' '.The fat was now in the fire, and tlie fun on. The atiuosjihere turned blue, and i-here was a strong smell of sulphur, flentle Tip made a hurried exit, a sadder and wiser man, and, filer reachZing a site distance, began whistling "The Half-crown I left JWiind Me." »Moml.—Civility is better than bounce. Another sonvorsnliou overheard lato,ly here, and one which goes to prove "that, at least in this part of the country, the birthrate is not declining: Fond father <o elder boy: "Son, would you like to see the new twins the stork brought?" Elder boy, disejnsolately: "No, I'd like to see the stork."