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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2578, 12 August 1909, Page 7

The question of nationality was being discussed in a email but representative gathering of Natives in the King Country recently. One owned an infusion of Celtic blood, others to other admixtures. “For my part,” said a full-blooded Maori, who was present, “I’m Scotch. Pie explained: “Scotch missionaries came to the country owned by my ancestors. They disappeared. lam Scotch—-by absorption.”

A bright young Kaffir just for fun, Sneezed doAvn the barrel of a gun; And just to see lioav things would go, He pressed the trigger Avith his toe. A, basketful of his remains Was' gathered from adjacent plains; And now you may be sure, When they have colds use Woods’ Peppermint Cure.

The occupants of Her Majesty’s Hotel, in the same building as Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sydney, had a rather., exciting experience during the fire on August 1. The sfnoke found its way into the. bedrooms upstairs, and tlie occupants, who were enjoying the luxury of a Sunday morning nap, were rudely disturbed'. ' One lady, who believed that the hotel itself was on fire, forgot all about her own safety, and hack no thought about her own property. Instead she rushed into the passage and screamed “Savo my parrot!” And she was not satisfied until the bird, a big- green African parrot, was carried out into the street. Outside large numbers of spectators had gathered, and the parrot, unused to its surroundings, repeated one of its lessons that happened to bo applicable. “What’s the matter, anyway? What’s the fuss?”' lie said.

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One witness before the Half-holiday Commission as Sydney last week, told a curious to how his father, a North Sydney shopkeeper, who is opposed to tho movement, came to sign a petition in favor of it:—“A wellknown business man of our suburb came into the shop one dusty day, and said to father, ‘Good morning. It’s a dusty day, isn’t it? I’ve got a petition here asking the Council to water the street—will you sign it?’ Father said ‘With pleasure,’ and signed the petition without reading it,- because he took the man to bo a straight goer. A fortnight later he found that he had signed a petition in favor of a movement of which he was a strong opponent.” A subsequent witness, who had charge of tho petition in question, confessed that a friend of his, who was a “bit of a joker,” took the document to the previous, witness’ father, and returned with his signature on it.' When he discovered subsequently, however, that the name had Coen got as o joke, he cut it out of the petition. “It was unquestionably. a wrong thing to do, even if only in a joke,” was Mr. Justice Street’s comment.

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