Mr. Labouchere is going to bring a bill into the English Parliament to enable husbands and wives who have been judicially separated for seven years, to marry again. Captain Powell of the Orient liner “ Lusitania ” has got into trouble. He made love to a very pretty lady passenger named Farrell during a-reqent yoyage from home and her husband getting to hear of matter (stewards wilLtalk) the., gallant captain has . been mulcted £5OO. The LdLerty draws attention to the traveling- aflowanoes-of Civil Servants. “By regulations these are fixed at 3s 6d per day for every £lOO of salary per annum, but in no case leap than 7s. per day, and at sea 2s. 6d. , per day. Thi&'is exclusive of railway, coach, or steamboat: fares. A poor devil on -£2OO a year, has to travel and lose 2s. 6d. per day, as he can’t do it decently uuder 10s., while the swell with £BOO -az year travels a good deal and nets from £2 to £2 10b. per day, profit ; a nice addition to his 'salary. No wonder Messrs. Batkin, Seed, and other heads of depart'm'eAts find so : -often -sUch 'good reaIsofik for efiadge’of ecehe
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 933, 9 April 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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