WAIMATE PLAINS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [OWN CORRESPONDENT.] New Plymouth, Last Night.
Thk natives have' dropped fencing, none having come down since Friday. It is not known, howevei', whether the natives have left off by Te Whiti's orders, or whether they have refused to be made fools of any longer, seeing that 70 of them have been sent away.
Down in Ohio, when a young man has taken a girl to a spelling-school sixteen times, the law considers them engaged to be married, and she lias a good breach of of promise if he doesn't walk up. It ii surprising that some of our enterprising dramatists have not constructed a scene in which a safe is hoisted into a fourth storey window. It always draws a big audience The poet Tennyson is worth 1,000,000 doll-irs, and we don't see what use there was in his wrifcinar"Come not to ire whqn lam dead." Thej'U he on hand, overy one qf thuip, when the will is opened. The head waiter of a hotel is the chap who comes to inquire how A r ou an getting" along sifter you ha been served. During the half hour you are waiting for a waiter he U nut visible,
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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1266, 10 August 1880, Page 3
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203WAIMATE PLAINS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [OWN CORRESPONDENT.] New Plymouth, Last Night. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1266, 10 August 1880, Page 3
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