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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 2

"Teji years' marriage." as suggested by Mr. George Meredith, elicits an approving comment from "Mr. Dooley." "It wud be fine," says the sage: "I hope George' What's-his-naine puts it through." It is the women, he thinks, who would most welcome the release- and the new . chance of "goin' into the market to prospect for a husband with all modhven improvements." "The average man, on, being asked one day at|breakfast, 'Where. > will .1 send ye'er clothes? , ' or 'Where djye live to-morrah?' by_ his time-expired bet-ter-half, would first *beat the quartermile record to the jooler's,' and then to' v prove his personal appearance at the establishment of a 'beauty upholsterer.' 'He'd get her back, maybe, but it wud' be a sthruggle.' The great trouble about matrimony is that after a time 'it settles down to an endurance thrile,' for, 'ai Hogan says, we first embrace, then pity, .' then endure.' This 'might be difFrent if th' ladies, instead of bein' eecured fer life, was on'y held on a short-tent lease. , " V NOT A LENDERJ "Do you think your friend would lend himself to a shady political transaction?" "No," answered the politician; "be might lease himself, or sell himself oatright, but he wouldn't stand *ny friendly borrowing."

I DEATHS. HEKD.—On January 17, at the Aucklaß* Hospital, Robert Myers, beloved husband of Lucy Herd; aged 35 years.—Manche*ter papers please copy. The funeral will leave his mother-in-law's residence, Upper Vincent street, on Thursday, at 2.30 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation. To be lnteirt* at Purewa Cemetery.

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