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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7169, 13 September 1886, Page 2

On August 15 a married woman, named Mary Ellen Parker, 25 years of ago, residing with her father-in-law at Darlington, New South Wales was found hanging from a beam above the doorway in the bathroom. Close to the body was also found her little son, three years old, hanging to the Bame beam. Deceased had been living apart from her husbanl since March last, and is said to havo I'retted greatly in consequence. The other occupants of tho houso had been absent from it all day, and a step sister, on returning from scnool, found the bodies as deaoribed. Deceased told the people, when they left the house, not to come home to dinner. The following letter was found in tho room ;— " Mother do not fret. I have been ill all tho week, and I thought I would be better away out of the road, me and Teddy, I remain, your loving daughter, Ellen and Teddy Parkor. Don't fret for mo ; goodbye." A young married lady who moved into the country from London considered tha keeping of hens a pleasant and profitable undertaking. As she gre>w more absorbed in the pursuit, her enthusiasm increased, uud "huns" became a favorite subject of her thoughts and conversation. During one of her animated descriptions of her success, a friend inquiied, (( Are your heus good laying heus?" "Oh, yes," she replied, in a delighted tone, "they hav.a'S luid a bad egg yet J"