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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 12 January 1899, Page 15

A gentleman recently appeared before a French police magistrate on the charge of calling: a lady a camel. ' May I not call Madame a camel ?' ass,ked the accused. ' Certainly not, sir,' said the magistrate. " But I may call a camel Madame ?' • Well, I suppose so.' The accused turnel to the complainant. ' 1 salute you Madame !' Go From Home to Lea^n News.— Under the heading, ' The Maori at Home,' the London Daily Mail publishes the following curious information about the Maoris of ' Australasia :—' The Maori women of Australasia have rights — flourishing ones Generally tht y have little voice or choice in the selection of the first husband, but they may and frequently do change him. Courtship is always brief, find does not of tea preface marriage. The Maoris, however, love to repeat strange old love tales and to sing love songs, delicate and charming of diction and sound. Maori widows not infrequently commit suicide upon the graves of their husbands, and are honoured for doing so, as in China. Divorce is as simple as possible. It needs no purse, employs no lawyers. The husband just turns the wife out of doors, and botha re free to remarry. Th-it is all. Girls are often botrothed irrevocably in infancy. Those not betrothed in childhood are expected to acquire as many admirers as they please. Indeed, the greater the number of admirers the greater the prestige of the girl.'