£2O reward offered to any person proving that a reliable watch is not a man's best friend. Grieve, Jeweller, guarantees every Watch that leaves' his premises.*' , 7. ■ ■ A Chinaman who was brought before the Court in Dunedin recently for allowing his , horse to wander on the main road, St. Kilda, put forward a disingenuous excuse for the breach of the by-law. The Celestial said that the defendant’s horse had been sick, and rain had made the paddock in -which: it was enclosed very wet. A new chum Chinaman in defendant’s employ,-“not aware of the laws of the land”—-but evidently appreciative of the disabilities .the sick horse was laboring underthen turned it- out on the public road, to “keep it out of the wet.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3220, 17 May 1911, Page 6
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123Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3220, 17 May 1911, Page 6
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