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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

Women lawyers in France are permiU ted to act as • magistrate's in casespof children under 13 years of age./ Sv-' ; '; The first cup of tea made 'in the United States was brewed on the Shapleigh Estate in Eliot, 'N.Hi, it is said, early in the seventeenth century. Nicholas Shapleigh of England, a rich tea dealer, fitted out an expedition in 1623, placed his son-in-law in command, and directed him to explore a portion of the new world. The son-in-law landed at Kittery Point, and two years later Nicholas settled in what is now :Eliot. The estate is still owned by his descendants. \; : ''''.■'