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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1073, 13 October 1883, Page 4

/.freezing fpr *xpprfc will not be cobfineJ ' to she?]* and'cattljei and one near .Patea/aod a director of tbe West, poast ’Mew (jJqmpapy, intends breeding pork it will paybetteij than-mutton, as the pigs mpijceji at six months of age. << -Oourier” says—r‘ ‘ Two hundred forty Maoris inarched to the Waiaua bridge on Tuesday, and marched hack again. On the following day the re bearsed by 190. a prominent figure. All were jvell dressed, and several of the young Sftftnjdjpnned,the blue ribbon.” Some' tfery remarkable statements made the otheijday (jayetbe Poll Mol Gazette ) by ** a ‘promi^nir. member of the New detective ” to a someWhat'credulou's Boston reporter, will no dosbj: help. to confirm old ladies of both {.'Cb'Ontry as to the dreadful - Mfilire df lhe American woman.. According to, this authority the result of the woman’s rights movem ,nt in New fi Tork is that-more ~wo|nen' go armed than men, and -thd-' Softer sex are declared ‘to be much more formidable to roughs and burglars'th n men.' -A jnan when he "hears a burglar l /throws up the window end shonts'rbt' thftf police ; a woman slips her haul under the, pillow, and, rushing up fb' : tie in'truder, thrusts the barrel against. his clothes', and ’ fires. “ A woman with a piatbf/ says the detective, “Is the gameat thiii'g oh earth. In every case where a man hail been shot by a woman his clothes have been burned.” That -may be ; bpt when the preeminent detective went‘bn* toa* ate that evbry other woman,, in Broadway carries a' pistol—usually a nipkel-plated Smittfand Wesson - —in .her'bosnm; : add Wheii'be adds that ” Mdme. Modjestca sleeps with a' brace' of pistols under her pillow, that Mdme. 'Adelina Patti is a “ terror with a re. VTolver,” and that Miss' Anderson once States army at Vim worth by firing blank ’cartridges have felt that a little ioomuch upojj ce lepOiter--