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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 125, 7 November 1901, Page 3

He : •• Why do they call woman the fair sex J" She : "To diitingui-*h thttn from thuunfair bex, no doubt." Teetotal iSpnaker : •* Now, what wae it vhe riO man in hell called tyt ? was it whi&yJ No. VV*s it brandy ? No. Nor was it ruin? No. It w*» water-water. Now. what doee that show r" A Voien : " Sh<»w« where all «rou teetotal fellows go k>." ; 6c dm eyed that he »o ually hi* h*n4 another nun's poofcet* *n& abatraoted therefrom a watou. /.'';■."" flh wanted to learn the time. The Judge told him ic woald be three J* rß ' Poem Did it—Caller: "IV the editor in?" i Office Boy :" No ; he'e ill." Caller : *• I Wonder if—er—he got the; poem 1 sent him !" Office Boy told yer lie was ill, diduHir " In « grocer's shop, about a quarter past •ifeh , the shopmen w«re gossiping, when a boy eutered. «♦ Twa tardea* for * ha 1 peony, if yet please." C»ats off, gentlemen, business has fcegun,, cried toe foreman.

A rather renaarkablejoecHH?ence was j reported at Gisborne from «fae Motu Bush lately. Five buarnuin were on a contract/ Oaoneevemful Saturday; the first by. a sh> of the axe out his leg,, the kn*e oaf, *het bird was injured by ft falling tree, the fourth bad a tad jail from* where* he Was working, j and to complete the quintette the fifth; man cut bis foot, and was laid up for, «ouae time. , * Some light is thrown on the employ-: ment of foreigners ia the British mercantile marine in the report of Great Britain's Consul at'Frame. In an' analysis of the crews of firitUb rowels' the j»ort in 1899, he shows that oin* of 4781 svlore 1227 were foreigners. Of theses 121 wen Germans, 207 Swedes, 207 Italians, 847 CMeittti ; arfa r s 46 of other nation-* alidt*. XI these; figures {remarks the D.dlyN*ws)«r»«t «1| rep««B«ntaUve of the bulk it is not ao altogether' oomtorting thought ttat praotleaJly