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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 33, 8 February 1901, Page 1

A ease in which it was alleged Mrs Bourne’s baby, five years old, smacked Mrs Lewis’s girl of eleven, and Mrs Lewis smacked Mrs Bourne, and the latter summoned the former for the latter indignity, was heard atßangiora, up to this point, when the magistrate ordered the parties to go home and live at peace, it being shown that the complainant, Mrs Bourne, had pushed Mrs Lewis, which caused the latter to resort to the smacking. A Wairarapa farmer, who was intent the other day on making his will, was asked by the lawyer for the name of his wife. He had to own up he didn't know it, and confessed that although he was 40 years married he had always called her 1 old woman.’ The lawyer left a blank to be filled up when his • old woman’s ’ name was ascertained. f There is brotherly love among the pressmen at Christchurch. In order that the whole of the literary staff of the Lyttelton Times might attend the banquet given by the proprietors in honor of the paper’s fifteenth anniversary, the staff of the Christchurch Press kindly undertook the reporting for both journals during the evening. . <