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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5008, 4 July 1903, Page 7 (Supplement)

The woman of a sane, simple life does not waste her energies in burning with some ardour for the entire human family ; she stscs no confused mass of economies or municipal wrongs to right. She does not walk through life with her eyes fixed on marvellous reforms along the horizon, loading meanwhile, on the toes of those nearest her, jostling them, or what is nearer the truth, ignoring them. She sees first and foremost the duty which lies nearest. She is, first, of her own homo; her own church, her own people. At her own doorstep she works, and to its cleanliest order she devotes her energies. Then she devotes time to her own broadening, meanwhile going out beyond her door as far as she can. In other words, she is, first of all, about her own duty, her own matter, her own • home, her own kith and kin. She gets her. own house in order first. Then she looks beyond. But that is what so few can do; the employment of themselves -and-their energies upon the duty that lies jioarest. In the Special Criminal Court of Pretoria, Umphan, a native, was recently charged with the murder of JoIrannes, _ another native. From evidence given it appears Umphan killed Johannes, who had £ll in his possession, because Umphan wanted the money to buy a wife to work for him.