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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2416, 14 December 1880, Page 4

The latest and worst case of lover’s revenge comes from Australia. A young man whose affianced went back on him and broke off their engagement, received a note from her asking him to return the lock of her hair which he had. He looked over hie trunk, collected a heap of tresses, culled frrom various sources during his love-makking career, and forwarding them in a bundle to his lady love, enclosing a note to the effect that he had really forgotten which was hers but she might select it from those forwarded and return the rest at her earliest convenience. The story got out, and the neighborhood felt so warm for her that she went on a prolonged visit to her country cousins. At Derby, Judge Maule was in the act of passing sentence upon a man, when the governor of the County Jail came to the table to deliver some calendars to the members of the bar, and, in so doing, passed between the prisoner and the Judge. Maule thereupon intimated to the Governor that in so doing he had outraged the best known conventional rules of society. “ Don’t you know” said the Judge, “you ought never to pass between two gentlemen when one gentleman is addressing another?” The offender against this convential rule apologised and retired, whereupon the J udge sentenced the other gentleman to seven years transportation. j