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Evening Star, Issue 15139, 22 March 1913, Page 1

Rich Banker: "So rem want to IVc mv -on-vn-law?" Suitor- '• Weil. Tin 1101 rxa.Hlv keen on that, but .is I AV ;uil m marry your 'liinphlpr I suppose I shall have In taWiho other toh on as well.'' ' M!; -"" nir so " "I'l'-'r yo'inp 10 join (he Ai-'Tiyr" sn.id n rr.r»r'v>m to an old lady who brought hj hoy' of fourteen to him to enl-st. "Why. no." she rr-piied. " Vou sec t wiinl him to join thn infant rv.'' "Do yon wiiut employment,.-" '• ?.,idv." answered the tramp, "you means will, hi'it you can't, make work sound any more inviting by using words of three syllables." Annie Travis, .who was admitted to the .Auckland Hospital on Tuesday of hist we»k suffering from tlio. efforts of veronal poison, was afterwards'sent to the Paniell VvofCTie Homo. On Thwsday she appwrcxl in eoiut. and was charged Ixiforo' Mr 10. ('. Oulten, S.M.. with 'having attempted to commit. Mii.-ide. Insjie.ctor M'-Grath stated that the young woman seemed oV U-rniined to .-ommit suicide since liev re••eption into the home. She had ]>orsisted in refusing to take food, lr.it liad accepted tea (o drink till slw discovered that it was hoikd milk infixed with tea. whereon site reftired that also. The Magistrate suggested that accused Vo charged' with being mentally defective. Tliis would enfttiie him to remand her for a week for medical observation. The course, suggested was fo'lo.ved. The young woman was bv ; v.o means destitute.'as anion? iter effects! when she was taken to the hospital was a rum of money amounting to a litilc over j £SO. j