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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2746, 26 February 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

“Good Masters: If in Love ye be” YOU’LL BE LOOKING EOR A HOME READY BUILT OR A SECTION TO BUILD ONE ON. WE HAVE BT—IN TOWN NEAR TOWN, AND OUT OF TOWN. All Prices and any Terms. We accommodate ourselves to you, and do not expect you to accommodate yourselves to us, W. LISSANT CLAYTON, ESTATE AGEMT.

A MEXICAN CUSTOM. Not only the houses of the Mexicans, but ' whatever you admire is yours. If you express a sentiment of approbation of anything, the owner at once says: ‘‘Senor, it is yours.” But lie simply intends something flattering, and you are, therefore, not expected to accept anything that is offered to you. An amusing story is told of Sir Spencer St. John, tho English Minister which illustrates how this national courtesy often embarrassment. 'Sir Spencer, who is a gallant old bachelor, was -promenading with some ladies in the park, when he met a nursegirl with a bright-eyed baby. The ladies stopped to admire the little one, and Siv Spencer arked whose Child it was- “Senior,=Tt is your yryfin” replied the nurse, with a curtesy,. Sir Spencer lias never inquired as’toethe parentage of pretty children since.,., ;<?

MRS T. H. WOOD. - Balance Street Wliataupoko. TEACHER of PAITnO, SINGING, L DANCING, anti ELOCUTION. Terms on either subjects £1 Is per Quarter, in advance. PUPILS Visited and Received. TOWN or COUNTRY. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT FACT No. 8. ttje GUARANTEE OF THE STATE goes with every issced by the Department J&vrbt person insured under itig conditions rests absolutely secure, firmly secured that whatever may happen the full value of Hb policy £b as certain to be paid when fcfafl claim accrues as tbat -the sun shall rise in the morning.