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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 707, 31 December 1902, Page 4

LADY ESSEX'S AUTOMOBILE, MAKES RIVALS ENVIOUS.

LONDON, November J.—Among all the “smart ’ Americans in London who have electric motors, the Duchess of Marlborough,’ Mrs Von Andre, Mrs George Weal, Mrs Henry While. MrsNewhousc and others, none’!.as one like tlia.l of Lady Essex, which is something quite unique. It. is e.vv’ly like out: the artless Rejanc i.s row making a sensation in Paris with. U resembles n hansom on four wheels with a coachman in front, and is so planned that hy day il can be kepi open, while at night it can he Oansiormetl into ;l dosed vehicle ft is a very costly turnout, liirowuig I everything of its kind in London into the .shade and exciting the deepest envy among the automobile owners who are her rivals in beauty and fashion. Lady Essex always was famous for taste in her costumes, and now is becoming noted for their variety and richness.

SE NA TOIi L E COMT E. .WANTS TO STOP FRENCH DUELLING. PARIS. November

Senator Maxinie Lecomte has introduced a bill in Congress intended to repress, it not suppress, duelling in France

V is hit’ll time that the burlesques ' in. tiiit' countty by the name tiicu.... • - ■' abolishof “ affairs of liouo. 0 j ed. .Statistics prove that

every one hundred French duels only four or live entail the death of one of the principals : that in between t!ity and sixty neither adversary is touched : that in twenty-five the man in the wrong inflicts an injury on the person insulted ; that in from fifteen to twenty the result without being tragic, accords with the sentiment of justice.

The whole thing is too ridiculous and at last Frenchmen are beginning to look on the quest on in a reasonable. practical light. One medical man. Dr. DeviUors, suggests as a compromise that the duellists should fire with inoffensive balls made ot candle-grease, which would crumble to powder when they struck.