A- poor woman sent to a hospital in-: formed the lady who sent her that she; thought' ''mighty :little. of .the grand doctor there, for he w&jked into the' room and stared st me, and .then, jsays he, looking as plaised as you like/with hisself' Well,, my good woman, - and; what's the.matter with' youl' 'And sure then, says I' Does 'your honor think I'd have .come 1 all this.' length to i see you if I could have told you 'that Lmvself.'" ~ ,
• With reference to the name " Dune-, dih/'Jtfr Wniiam" Chambers states ih' Jls interesting " Fifty : Yefira' Reminiscences" that it,was he. wKo 'suggested the- name, of Dunedin., .for the; town intention of its-founders was to call it New 'Edinburgh: ' Mr Chambers pointed, out that homs' was New This and New That (givmg'New York, New Orleans, and other places as examples), "andvrecbiiimende<i them to fix upoa Dunedin, the .old Celtic najpe ofthe, cApifcai ofSfcptjand, instead of J This advice was : upon,-.and weihink that the-in-habitants when they find what a narrow escape was made from' another New" •must' , f fateful' to'. .Mr William Chambers.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1278, 15 January 1883, Page 3
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182Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1278, 15 January 1883, Page 3
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