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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 17 April 1875, Page 3

One day last week, while Mr Ireland was engaged in digging a wafer hole/In the raupo swamp which "has recently been laid dry,.to the west,/of Mr,Barleyman's paddock) in the Maxwell-road, at a depth of six feet Below the surface, he came upon a piece of wood, which attracted -Iris attention through haying < sundry mark's on it, evidently made with some sharp instrument. It was embedded at this depth* in. a close compact black soil of decayed 7 vegetation,; which must have been forming long before the arrival ol ' the first white man in New Zealand The piece of wood has been chopped intc shape apparently^ to answer the purpose of prizing, as with a crow-bar, having t heel to it. There areheight distinct cuts on it, which, to all appearance, have beet made, with., a, t hatoh^t. — Marlborougb Times. '* " ""''"'■ 7"■'' ''■ ■ " Where a woman," says Mrs Parting ton, " has been married with a congealinj heart, a,nd>;pne that ibeats desponding t< her own,'sM|lill nevei? want to enter the maritime state again." . . "^- A surgeon, had "cub off a patient's leg -- A friend of the victiiiiinquiredanxioiasli whether the doctor!thought he woul< soon gefrlwell. j "He?" replied; ;thi doctor. ' s^He neyeir had: a chance.' "-Why, theti; put himitd-needless pjain ?' " Oh, you cannbt tell 'a putient.the trutl all at once;; you mustVfirst of all amu» him a little."