The gale of last week was the means of discovering a most absent minded man. He was on hia way home from the city, when he stopped to light a cigar. The wind was blowing strongly at the time, and, after several attempts to get a light, he pat his back to the wind and succeeded in his qaeßt Bat un fortnnately, he forgot to tnrn roand again, and went back to town.
There is great laughter in the South abont the way in which the Dnnedin Star and other papers ' fell in ' over a new Licensing Bill, of which the Star had got hold of an advance copy. Oar guileless contemporary gave it forth to the world as a Government measure, whereas it turned oat to be only a draft by some un authorised person, and based upon sundry snggestionß. It bad not even been adopted by the party whose views it was presumed to represent.
A Bright Idea.
Ferry : She Bays lam dnll. Percy : You should crack a few jokes occasionally. Ask her to marry you, or something like that.
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Saturday, August 18, 1900.
