Wellington Times in Wellington, New South Wales

Fragments From a Country Parish Laughs and Larks

A string of rural humor and misread notices features a vicar’s clerical misreading, a magistrate quip about a young man who followed his mother’s “advice,” a splintered slipper gag, an actor’s failed fund request, a boy’s school savings mix up, a country visitor’s churchyard mischief, and a French holidaymaker’s comic encounter with a bell and a powder shed tale.