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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 September 1907, Page 2

Mr. Okcy, related Inst night that It was largely due to the Indies that he had been elected to Parliament, Peculiarly enough, one of the first, letters received after his election was from n lady, and she wanted an amendment of the divorce laws. At the gathering on Sunday night to make a presentation to Mr. IX Phillips, one of the speakers, in a humorous turn of mmd, pointed out that (here was an ancient statute In force In Mew Zealand passed in the reign of Charles 1., subjecting each and every one of 'those present to severe pains and penalties, including three hours in the stocks for assembling there that Sunday night. Put he was sure, they would willingly risk all the punishment, and so on. We have been informed that the three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. P. Jacobs' of Rtrathmore, died at the Stratford Hospital on Saturday evening last under distressing circumstances (says the Post). It is understood that the little one got hold of a teapot and drank the boiling tea out of the spout. Everything possible was done to allav tiie child s sufferings, and it was apparently making good improvement when pneumonia supervened, and the child expired. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Jcr ;ongli3 and Colds never fails. Is 6d and ;2s 64. -