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Title: Fifty years syne : a jubilee memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, 1848-1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chisholm, James, 1838-1903 Presbyterian Church, Otago, N.Z
Subjects: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
Publisher: Dunedin, J. Wilkie
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ts motto the very hopeful one, Theres pippins and cheese to come. It was printedat first on crown size paper, in three columns, and waseasily handled. It was at first issued once a fortnight.It had all the vigour of youth, kept its head well elate,as if conscious of its own high mission, marched with aswagger to the ringing watchword of the power of thePress, and was candid to a fault. Some spoke of itscornfully, with quite a superior air, as a mere rag ;others spoke in a curiously patronising tone, like the daftlad who, with calves and their upbringing in his mind,asked pityingly about the newly-arrived baby, Puirthing, wuU ye bring it up ? A few thought it a marvelin the circumstances, for its proprietor was Editor andprinter and publisher as well. It somehow got out oftouch with the bulk of its readers^but struggled bravelyfor existence. It became a week^, with four pages andfour columns on each page, after the first year, and gaveup at last in December, 1850. Many self-constituted
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97a FIFTY YEARS SYNE. 97 coroners held inquests over its death. Amid the conflictof verdicts one can easily be made out. It was some-thing like this :— Ah weel, its a pity, but, ye see, wemaun creep afore we gang. It made way for the longer-lived Witness. Sometimes the amenities of civilised life had to bedispensed with. A respected survivor of the earliestband, with one or two others from Dunedin, went on thefirst New Years Day to visit a friend who had taken uphis abode on a section below Port Chalmers. It was along walk, and their disappointment was great whenthey found that their friend was away and the door ofhis hut locked. They had fullest confidence that if theycould only find entrance without breaking door or window,no one would rejoice more on his return than the absentfriend. The hut was low, tiie chimney ditto. It wasbuilt of clay, with sloping sides, and had a wide enoughoutlet for the smoke of an infant volcano. The PhilipLaing passengers were men of grace as well as g

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