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INFLUENTIAL MR. BLANK.
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ble features; that it was through his influence that I was invited to visit the great mines; that it was through his influence that I was taken to the hospital and allowed to see the convalescent Chinaman who had been attacked at midnight in his lonely hut eight weeks before by robbers, and stabbed forty-six times and scalped besides; that it was through his influence that when I arrived this awful spectacle of piecings and patchings and bandagings was sitting up in his cot letting on to read one of my books; that it was through his influence that efforts had been made to get the Catholic Archbishop of Bendigo to invite me to dinner; that it was through his influence that efforts had been made to get the Anglican Bishop of Bendigo to

ALL THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE.
ALL THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE.

invite me to dinner; that it was through his influence that efforts had been made to get the Anglican Bishop of Bendigo