"A pig in harness," was a London street-boys' nickname for a Volunteer. Here we have the real animal:—A gentleman well known at the Beaumont (says a correspondent of a country paper) went out on Friday morning and caught three pigs. The smallest of the three ho carried on his back ; the others, averaging in weight from two to three hundredweight, he muzzled, coupled together, and with reins made of flax drove them in front of him, as a man would a pair of horses, from the neighbourhood of the Backbone, through the Beaumont township and across the punt; the destination of the party being, it was understood, the Heriot Hundred. DubinG'lß79 New Zealand borrowed seven millions of money. This of course includes the loans raised by municipalities, etc. We are well worthy our title—the great loan land.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3527, 15 April 1880, Page 3
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137Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3527, 15 April 1880, Page 3
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