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A LADY BARRISTER.

Miss Kate Stoneham app<>arod on May lit Hi* among the counsel at the of tSupreme Court for the State of N> \v York, at Albany, She was re.-olvcd to he a lawyer, and tsucccedc 1 in the teeth of vehement opposition in obtaining the passing of an Act by the State Legislature rendering women capable of being li tted I nr tic in the courts of »*»w in the State of Netv York, on I’-issing the prt ribed examinations 1 "'I- t\ie judge refused to hear *1- ovule- her diploma was signed by im- S'ate »lovernor. This she obtained with -one difficulty, and then appeared before tin same judge who had previously denied her aud.ence. The t)\i-nt* brought a great throng of curious spec t*«™ to witness the unprecedented wane. Mias Stoneham , ;\r, years old. ind is described as not It hd looking, with keen, bri"hl eve'. *»« her brothers is Oov. ruu'r >f thfltate of California.

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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

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A LADY BARRISTER. Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

A LADY BARRISTER. Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

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