NATIVE NEWS.
" (bt telegbaph.) (united press -assoc cation.) Opunake, Dec. 15. Nearly' 2QO natives came as far as the southern boundary of the township this morning, but were stopped. Among them were natives from all the Maori pahs between here and Wanganui. Recent researche3 into the f itnily of Martin Luther have brought to light, the fact that a lineal descendant of the great reformer is still living, and that he fills at. Berlin the useful, but scarcely brilliant, post of postman, j '• Are you mariied ?" asked the justice of a man who had been arrested for vagrancy. " No, lam not married ; but my wife is." "No trifling with the Court.";; " Heaven save us ! lam not trifling with the Court. I was married; but got a divorce. My wife got married again, but I didn't : so I am not married, but my wife is."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 2
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144NATIVE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 2
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