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Author's note: Around the West Coast matters are not so bright for a certain class of people as they might be, and unfortunate sharks are plentiful on (sic) Zeehan. Born with the idea that they, and they alone, should sup with silver spoons from ditto mugs, they are at a loss to know how 'their latter state is worse than their first,' and also why the miners have no 'bowels' for them, as they have for the unemployed, forgetting the damp put upon legitimate mining, was the result of their peculiar style of financing. They put public (scrip) trusts to very private uses; thus their occupation - which if carried on straight would have still been popular - like Othello's, it is gone. It is like the ship that never returned. I have sent this along to the Army to that once popular air. Let us sing:
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- Zeehan, Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,
- Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,
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