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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 548, 3 February 1868, Page 3

—ls it not strange, after all the Bible says of “women,” the term “ladies” should be preferred by many of her sex. “ She shall be called ‘woman ’ ” is the first intimation we have of her name. We read of the gentle, loving Ruth, (he queenly Esther, and Elizabeth, the mother of John, all ai women ; and she who was most exalted of all, Mary, the mother of Jesus. If lady had been a superior title, surely i‘, or something equivalent to it, would hare been conferred upon her. True, she was poor, the wife of a carpenter, her babe was born in a manger, yet the angels rejoiced, and the morning stars sang together as she (a woman) held the child in her arms. Who bathed the Saviour’s feet with ner tears, and followed him to the cross and tomb, and received the first blessing of the risen Lord P Woman—ever kind and compassionate—the very name seems to breathe of love and adoration. Another great fortune has been found, according to the Western papers, to belong to heirs in America. It is said to amount to between two and three hundred millions, and to belong to the descendants of Lady Mary Townley Lawrence.