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New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1913, Page 34

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Our Short Story We draw attention to the original short story in this issue by a Dunedin Catholic young lady, who writes under the pen name of Nora McAuliffe.' The Grey Election Canon Garland has recently completed a tour of the West Coast, but apparently without any yisible result. ' All three candidates,' writes our Greymouth correspondent, 'are opposed to the proposals of the Bible-in-Schools League, so that Canon Garland's mission to the West Coast has borne, little or no fruit so far. In fact, the League, in these parts, seems to be as dead as the proverbial dormouse.' A Strike Incident The St. Patrick's Day edition of the London Times records the following incident in its examples of Irish humor. During the great railway strike of 1911 in Ireland an amateur engine-driver, in pulling up at a country station, took the train a long way past the platform, and then backing the train went as far again beyond the platform at the other end. ' Stop where ye are,' shouted a Dublin playboy among the strikers' pickets; ' we'll shift the station for ye.'