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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 390, 28 May 1908, Page 4

At a spiritual seance recently, a man burst into tears when the medium described very accurately a tall blue-eyed spirit standing by him, with light side-whiskers and his hair parted in the centre. “ Do you know him?” inquired a man in a sympathetic whisper. “ Know him ? I should think I do,” replied the unhappy man, wiping his eyes. “He was engaged to my wife. If he hadn’t died he would have been her husband instead of me. Oh, George, George!” he murmured in a voice choked with emotion, “ why did you leave this world ?”

The Oamaru Mail explains : In connection with the 'limaru Herald’s playful reference_ to the records of crime in our unlicensed town, it will interest the public, and perhaps, our contemporary, to be reminded that the ten convictions for wilful damage to property were amongst the roystering picnickians who visited Timaru on an occasion which was ■ made notorious by the bacchanalian exhibition which they brought with them from our sister town. It was not our no-license, • but Timaru’s license, that was responsible for the mad orgy of destructiveness which resulted in the ten convictions. Though already in possession of a fortune of full ,£12,000 left her by the death of her father, Mrs Louis Meek, a young widow, continues to work as a waitress in a local family hotel in Los Angeles, and declares she has no idea of quitting or doing anything else. The legacy consists of £3°°° cash, which she has received, and two houses and lots so close to the heart of London that their value may be much more than is estimated. Mrs Meeks says she will keep the principal, and donate the interest and money she can earn with her own hands to charity. She was married at 17 and in weeds at 18.