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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8096, 27 September 1904, Page 3

Whan Frtu Clara Harm, the wife of a prominent Berlin gentleman, from whom •he waa separated, committed suicide, she left tnitxpctiona in her will that everything Me possessed should be burned on a . funeral pile. The police carried out 1 these orders to the letter, burning no fewer th.an eleven chests filled with dresses, some packages .of linen, ten boxes containing hats, three dozen reijs, and hundreds of lore*lettera. ' \ • Bays the Scotsman:—W e know that Xqtd Pundon*ld deliberately sacrifioed himself for the purpose of ' saving the Canadian militia from the interference of politicians with axes to grind, and of revetting to the Canadians the unsatisfactory condition of the military force whose efficiency they were inclined to take too much for granted. None hut the oversanguine, however, will expect miracles of reform to follow bis act A martyrdom. Military ineptitude and abuses, U "we ourselves have Karaed to our bitter coat, are hard to kUU and will survive many such 4jq s exposure. ./• * Bp«cial ahow ol everything Jjew in sprint and summer drapery and millinery, comrnencfaf >*n Monday. The xotton cambrics, canvas voite, uphyrs, delaines are simply lovely, and wttl b« on view in rot* variety at W. tyft*. Boonomic.