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Mr H. E. Whitaker, son of the late Sir F. Whitaker, and for some years secretary of the New Zealand Stud Company, is at present residing at MatabelelandA Sydney paper of a recent date recorded no less thau seventeen drowning fatalities and two deaths from chloroform in one day . . The " swagger" damsels mentioned in our last issue (says the Observer) are rumored to be escapees from a martinet boarding school. This of course is more romantic still. In adjudicating on a charge of failing to support a wife recently, the Wellington magistrate said that if a woman failed to get her husband's tea, refused to look after her children, and acted otherwise as a wife should not act, then he considered the husband was not compelled to provide for his wife. Case dismissed.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5905, 29 March 1894, Page 3
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