“The debris having been then cleared away,” is the style in which a Wairoa reporter explains that the leavings at a muffin worry were cleared up. Gisborne boasts the boss story. A bankrupt says that he has a friend who is trying to realise on property of his own so as to enab e the bankrupt to offer a composition. A friend in need. A school boy’s composition on •* The Editor” ran as follows i— M The editor is one of the happiest beggars in the world. He can go to the circus in the afternoon and evening without paying a farthing, also to inquests and hangings. He has free tickets to the theatres, gets wedding cake sent to him, and sometimes gets licked, but not often, for he can take things back in the next issue, which he generally does While other folki have to go to bed early, the editor can sit up every night, and see all that is going on.”
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 360, 5 October 1889, Page 3
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164Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 360, 5 October 1889, Page 3
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