A CLOCK OF WOOD.
TlwJ cable tolls us in al sincerity, though in painful hrevity, that when the .Kaiser was witnessing the launching of a huge liner, "a (block of wood fell near him." It us not v given to the reader to know from whence the block of wood ; feM. It may have been released from by some desperate Anarchist, or it might have (fallen from the clouds. Nor does the cable tell us what were (the dimensions of the block of wood, or whether it was hard or .soft wood.. All we are .tuld as that it was a « block of wood," and that it fell "near him." How Within a yard, a foot, or a ifiewanches? JGiM :we are..poasessed-of Ifurther wtaivnatitan,- we shall not 'be :in a position (measure the isymjiarttoy which we should extendHo the "ifrerraw. nation,-in : the calamity, which has «o nearly hdfalien it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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149A CLOCK OF WOOD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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