COLONIAL NEWS.
Melbourne, August 27. The Government intend to issue Treasury Bills to enable them to forestall the revenue.
" I am very much afraid of lightning," said a pretty lady. " And well you may be," replied a despairing lover, " as your heart is made of steel " Maebiages in May are said to be unlucky; but then so are those in June, July, September, and, in fact, all the other months. A young man who has recently taken a wife says be didn't find it half so hard to get married as he did to get furniture. "Is your wife's name Margaret?" asked a hired man. "No," said the farmer; "Margy's short for Oleomargarine, and I calls her that 'cause I don't love any but her." Thb deep-sea fisheries of Italy last year employed a fleet of 3132 sailing vessels, of 29,783 tons and manned by 20,292 men.
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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1275, 31 August 1880, Page 3
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147COLONIAL NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1275, 31 August 1880, Page 3
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