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NZ Truth, Issue 99, 11 May 1907, Page 5

Queen. Ena, having experienced the pangs all mothers know, should iv the .first flush of sympathy urge tliei desirability of amending the Spanish m a rriage laws. At present it is legal for Spanish girls of twelve to marry, and returned tourists report that tlie graveyards m the villages are packed witb the v bones of dead childmothers. Once the. Spanish had sufficient physique to suit such latbarous cttai&mg— * now they have not. ' ,'lft the report of a f eeent function, as chronicled by a ceritefiiporary, appears the staggering iifie : "Thy toast of "fhe Oniftaiiian' eonclt'ded the proceedings.- Naturally we did some puzzling &ver this,- jibd it W.*s not until we tedollgfited our contemp. did most Of its. type setting by the aid ©f tbe maebi-*'* , 1 - the solution was arrived atv Obviously then, it was tho toast of the chairman to which a glass had been emptied at m mm §i the ?x§em*