NO CLAIM ON HUSBAND. CURIOUS DOCUMENT SIGNED BY SOLDIER’S WIFE. When charged at Pontefract with deserting his wife and child, Ernest Coulter, a soldier, produced the following document. “This is to certify that I, Mrs Coulter, am leaving my husband, Ernest Coulter, and will not hold any claim on him for myself and child. The document was dated the end of July, and a few days later the woman and child entered Pontefract workhouse. . ~ Mrs Coulter admitted signing the paper, which was duly witnessed, but she said it was prepared by her husband, and she did not understand that it meant he was going to desert her. • . Coulter was sent to prison for a month. Mrs Coulter wept bitterly on hearing the sentence.
Fishing excursions! A “WTSOO.NSTN” ROWBOAT MOTOR will talm you to the “Grounds” in quarter the time. Economical on fuel. No alterations needed. R. P- M. Manning Co., 135 Albert St.. Auckland—9. THEY PURIFY THE BLOOD. There is no'better'medicine made for the relief of indigestion and its attendant ailments than Chamberlain’s Tablets. They stimulate the digestive organs to perfect action, ensuring proper and complete digestion and assimilation of food. Besides doing this, Chamberlain’s Tablets clear of all impurities and purify the blood. As a result blotches 'and pimples quickly disappear. Sold by E. D. Smith, chemist, Gisborne. ' v
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9611, 6 February 1923, Page 3
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