One Simon Fraser lately went into a store, and was served with a pound of candles. " Aren't they dear ?" he asked. " They'll be dearer still," says the storekeeper, "if our troops and the Maoris keep at war much longer." " What!" says old Simon ; " are they going to fight by candle-light ?" A well-known provincial bore having left a tavern party of which Burns was one, the bard immediately demanded a bumper, and addressing himself to the chairman, said, " I give you the health, gentlemen all, of the waiter that called my Lord T out of the room."
YTTESTPORT and CHAELESTON TELEGRAPH LINE OF COACHES "Will leave the Empire Hotel for Charleston as follows : Saturday 9.15 a.m. Monday 10.0 am. Tuesday 10.45 a.m. "Wednesday 11.30 a.m. JAMES SIMPSON, Empire Hotel. JBICKERTON EI S HER, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR & CONVEYANCER. Temporary Office: Molesworth Streeet, adjoining Post Office Hotel.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 700, 20 August 1870, Page 3
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143Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 700, 20 August 1870, Page 3
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