Among the passengers by the Rimutaka, which arrived ,at Port Chalmers on Wednesday, is a steerage passenger, Miss B. Hale, for Timaru. You can depend on ridding your children of Worma with Wade’s Wosar Figs, the Wonderful Worm Worriers. Price, Is. All the band officials in Timaru have signed a formal protest against the passing of the Shops and Offices Bill, as it relates to cranking offices, and the protest will be forwarded to Wellington to be laid before Parliament. Says the Press: —“A disappointed swain is at present lying in the police colls, the victim of a woman’s unfaithfulness. The two were ostensibly engaged, and scores of loving letters passed between them. The course of their true love ran ■ smoothly enough for several years, and then the man woke up one day to find that another gentleman had entered upon the scene. So enraged did the first gentleman become that ha sent a letter to the lady, teeming with reproaches, and concluding with a threat that ho would sooner kill her rather than that she should become another’s. There is a section of the Criminal Code that deals with such an offence as this, and under this section the young man has been arrested.” Since tbe above was in type the young man, whose name is Peter Dunn, has been brought before the Court, and as the lady. Miss Elizabeth Woodbury, persisted in asserting that she believed her life to be in danger, he was committed for trial.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 3768, 20 July 1901, Page 2
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249Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 Temuka Leader, Issue 3768, 20 July 1901, Page 2
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