A member of the Tasmanian Parliame it who made complaints that his speeches wore not properly reported, has been treated to a verbatim report of one of his deliverances in the " Hobart Mercury," and the result has caused a great deal of laughter at the expense of the grumbler, who could not deny that it was very correct, William L. Black, on dying in Halifax a year aeo left bis entire e3tafe, worth half a million, to his widow, though it was known that he h3d intended a* one time to cut hf r off with aa little as pcssibl<\ A person namei T?. H. B-iker claims fo have effected the change of mind, and he now sues her for £200,000, the asm which he esys she egreed to give biro for hia services if luccessf ul,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 207, 31 August 1881, Page 3
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