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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12468, 18 February 1909, Page 4

It is definitely announced that Mr Taft will remain on the. "water waggon," or, in plain' English,, will take no intoxicating wine, during his term as President, nor will -liquor pc served . kfc any official ftuiction" at the White ( House. There has heen no -teetotal regime- in the President's house since ' the Hayes A'drniiustration. . . . Something of a romance was hound up'-in the recent death of a Maori girl : at the Thames. It is stated that the .] doceased'.^^.jealbus of- a young fellow ;i of her own- rabe, and strongly. resent- ; ed- diversion ■of Ms affections. °' T?<? that as it may, . tne. urifortunate. »i girl? ■efroneously .: concluding : "hy; rthol ; pregience :of ; another , y.oung lyomanjr that her. love was" forfeit, resolved to :] ond-heK life, "and with" that object, it -i is J said,' soaked a nurfih'er of matches i in 'water and 'drank the poison. Short- i ly. after; the girl was- attapked, wibh i violent pains, andl sol serious was her j condition 'that :niedical aid was . tele- ] phoned for.- A' doctor';: administered: ] emetics, and,, left the sufferer/ much < hetter; : The; following day, however, t the girl died^':.; '„ ;..:". ' ; b