WANGANUI JOTTINGS.
(Dy TcleGraph.-Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, February 28. A girl of 17 pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court this morning to a charge of attempted suicide. She was recently before the. Court as the appellant in an affiliation case, subsequent to the birth of her illegitimate child. The girl had been violently upbraided by her fnther, and, in a fit of desperation, had taken a dosci of Jeyes fluid. Sho only recovered after three weeks in the hospital. His Worship gave the girl some soun 1 advice and discharged her.
Tho weather is dull and threatening. Large numbers of people have arrived in town for the races, which open to-mor-row, and (jive every prospect of bciii" an unqualified success, providing the weather keeps fine.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 3
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124WANGANUI JOTTINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 3
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