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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8797, 26 April 1907, Page 1

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Mr Lehman, Swiss engineer who recently won £40,000 in the Milan Exhibition lottery, is receiving from 500 to 1000 begging and matrimonial letters daily, and the postal authorities at Roumont, near Fribourg, have had to treble their staff. Scores of people (writes the Geneva correspondent of the London Standard) visit Roumont daily, including company promoters, agents of charitable organisations, beggars of every description, and even marriageable spinsters. M. Lehman is especially harassed by matrimonial agents, in consequence of an announcement published in the Swiss newspapers that he was looking for a wife. Among the many letters received is one from an Englishwoman, who writes:—"l am going to marry a horrid old man soon, because I must. If you sent me £2OOO I could marry the man of my choice, who has no money." A girl who describes herself as twenty-two and pretty, writes a ten-paged letter on the pleasures of domesticity, and adds, "I am willing, .are you?" One correspondent frankly admits that she is forty.-six, but adds that she is kind and affectionate, and would make a good wife. An equally candid Ger- ' man farmer writes:—"l have three I daughters. Take your choie.''