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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 81, 9 May 1918, Page 2

A recent issue of “Lloyd’s Weekly” had the following :—“ While walking along Regency street, Westminster, Vincent Roberts, a colonial soldier accidently knocked a bag out of the hand of Miss Prances Bennett, a clerk, living at Brixton. He apolo- ; gised, introduced himself, and, after saying-that he had been wounded at Gallipoli, suggested marriage. ‘ This is sudden, is it not?’ observed Miss Bennett, but gave her consent, and the marriage took place by special license. It afterwards became known that Roberts had a wife in New Zealand. At the Old Bailey Roberts was sent to prison for eighteen months for bigamy.” The lure of the earnings to be secured by trapping rabbits is said to be enticing men in different parts of Otago from their employment in essential industries. Among those who are said to be forsaking work of national importance to become rabbit trappers during the winter are men of military age exempted from service because of the employment in which they are engaged. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/6