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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12407, 24 November 1908, Page 4

A Leeds boy of eleven has summoned his. mother, Annie Elizabeth ■Mitchell, for assault by kissing -him. It was explained that Mrs Mitchell and her husband had been separated, and had lvcd apart for some years. The boy, in .describing the assault, which occurred in the school playground, said his mother, caught hold of him and "gave him a good shaking," and said, \ "Kiss your mother, love." He had to 'struggle to get away. A witness said defendant "niuped her arm round the bpv's neck, and gave him such a kiss! Sho seemed very glad to see her lad." The magistrate dismissed the summons. The great aqueduct that will bring 600,000,000 gallons of water daily to New York City from the Catskill Mountains will be 17ft high and loft wide along its entire length of SO miles. When the aqueduct is built a trench will be dug along the entire route over which the water is to travel, and in this great trench the cement' pipe will be constructed. Even where the acqueduct passes under the river it will bo of immense size of this cement piping. It will bring clown the water from artificial lakes created by the engineers in the hills nearly a hundred miles away from the city. The new haversack of the French army .weighs about eight pounds instead of twenty-six, as is the case of the old pattern. . - :- HIWIIII Mill h— Hi ill HIM 111 HI Wl iPHM'H WWliiilfcF !!»■ 'llliW'l