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Temuka Leader, Issue 1931, 17 August 1889, Page 3

Tie council of the Gospel Temperance Mission, Auckland, bare adopted a petition requesting Parliament not to make any amendment or alteration in sections 68 and 75 ef the Licensing Act. Grief counts the seconds; happiness forgets the hours. A German has invented a safe that on its safe being tampered with throws open the door, seizes and drags and locks in the burglar, and handcuffs and holds him in readiness to bo conducted to the police court in the morning. This is almost equal to the American servant-girl bed, which at a certain hour in the morning pitches her out, dresses her, carries her down stairs, and shows her how to start the fire. As a Scottish minister and an English lawyer were riding together, said the minister to his friend, " Sir, do you ever moke mistakes in your pleading ?” “ I do,” said the lawyer. “ An’ what do ye do wi’ mistakes?” was the question, “ Why, sir, if large ones, I ! mend thorn ; if small ones, I let them i go. And pray, sir, do you ever make mistakes in preaching ?” “ Ay, sir, I hae dune sae.” “ And what do you do with your mistakes ?” ‘‘ Ob, I dispense with them in the same manner ns \<* no yonraei’. 1 recl.iW- the Uirge, an’ let g ; > tan suin’ ones. Ao inog since, as 1 was preuchio’, 1 meant u> observe that the devil was the father o’ a’ liars, out 1 made a mistake, and said the father (' a’ lawyers. But the mistake wag go sma’ that 1 let it go.”