Acarx we find some difficulty in deciding What was the principal topic at home in the week ending the 10th October, for if the holiday-makers all over Europe were getting back to work, they had as yet done nothing sensational. If we turn to Punch, we find his cartoon devoted to a purely Tocal topic—aud one that will have to occupy ratepayers here before long—the Feshows a good deal of ingenuity on Ten: purchase of the Wa'erworke by the Council.
niel's part to make an anitnal out of such an unsympathetic a subject as water-pipes, but he has fairly succeeded. On the whole Punch is dull, though Furniss the always clever has made a customary charming
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