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NZ Truth, Issue 133, 17 August 1907, Page 7

Twenty years of romance makes a woman a ruin : after twenty years of married life she resembles a public building. Charles Single, a man who evidently wished to live up to his name, was arrested m Palmerston recently, and was remanded to Gisborne next day, on a charge of wife desertion. Rather a singular incident ! Same people have rotten luck. A Maori woman named Te Ra, stopping at Mrs Turner's boarding-house m Molesworth-street, Wellington, reported that she toad lost £158, and the agitated landlady immediately sent for the police, to 'have the matter investigated. The bobbies found Te Ra in an advanced state of square gin, and fell oh Mrs Turner for supplying the Waipiro. After all, too, the •■gilt was found under the waihi'ne's mattrass, a circumstance which didn't, prevent the landlady from being fined £2, with 29s costs, by Magistrate Rlddell. A brown lady who carried £158 about with her and succumbs to the alliiVßinents of dry gin deserves to lose the wealthy J