A southern lady was hailed before the magistrate last week, charged with imposing on fiho KiDg’a subjects by means of palmistry or other subtle craft. It appears that the particular craft she plied was not palmistry, Madame escaped conviction. Majesty’s lieges are fools enough to go into a dim room and pay a vfoman or a man money in order to listen to a lot of rubbishy patter about fair-haired girls or dove-eyed men and fortunes, the '• Madamss ” will, go on ply. ing their calling as long as there is a jay to be plucked.—Free Lancs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, 28 February 1905, Page 3
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