A Southern exchange offers light amusement to its readers in its report of a surprising mixture of metaphors used by a speaker at a meeting of householders in Ashburton. The speaker was telling with dramatic skill how a laffy sank unnoticed to the bottom in a swimming match, but his climax was when he added that, to rescue hgr-V«"-other lady “dived in like J” 1 ’; eagle “And flew out like an oM-ter, «■ voice, amidst laughter. Eve ? Wlt,h that suggested remarkable fie J t by the rescuing party the mixtu *e a little behind the florid effort of a reformer Who , decla’ red at Chnetchurch on one occasion. “Ti he octopus that crucified Greece and ig gnainng at the bulwarks o'- - British Empire.
■A few shillings spent on the free use of Nazol to protect the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and throat from cough., cold, and sore throats, ete., is better than hours of suffering 2
For a couple of decades past the average Britisher, if he were suddenly asked the population of the capital of the Empire, would almost certainly reply “five and a half millions.” The last census .hows that the population of “Greater London” is nearly seven and a Quarter Billions- j
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 5
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