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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 183, 1 August 1901, Page 3

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An ex-polioemau, formsriy stations I at Kimberley district, bat given the West Australian Press details of the gross cruelties perpetrated by white men on the aboriginals, many oi whom are flogged on the slightest pretext qhij otherwi»e shockingly treated. An inquiry been called for, The King of Italy, accompanied hr hi*' wife and mother, visited and' pfaved at the late King Humbert’s tomb at Pauthern. Later, a national priJCe-S'on, three miles long, including all classes, visited the tomb. Enormous crowds of svmpetbiners lined the streets. Signor Oris pi, front his dying bed, dictated a tel*gr»m of condolence With the King' At a meeting of temperance workers at Dunedin on Tuesday, it Was decided to f.rm a new organisation called the United Temperance Reform C mDoil. It* main nbjaol is to abolish the liquor traffic by the will of the people ; to contend for the right to colonial abolition of the traffic by a bare majority voting, while not surrendering Ibe present electoral local option. At midnight during the debate on th*? Agricultural Rates Sill in the House of Commons, the Nationalists were noisily obstructive, Mr William Redmond greeting the Speaker’s call of order with persistent shunts for the Ipofieii Messrs Redmond and P. O’Brien wera subsequently namsdSnd suspended, Lord Salisbury and the Hon A. J Balfour presented the King’s message to the Houses of Lords arid ~ Umbra-a* respectively, recommending a grant 1 of £ldo,ofld to Lord Roberts fat his eminent services to the Empire. Most of th? members of the House of Commons cheered the message, SHE OUGHT TO MAKE A %OOH WIPE. A yoAUg ooupie in a village had been oqurting for Several years. The young man one day sSid to the woman- 1 - ■ ’ “San, I oanna marry fchre.’’ •' H&lris that I” a»ked She. “ I’Ve Ohanged my mlnd, ,v ßaid he, ** W 11, I’ll tell yottr Vrhafc said she. ** If folVkqpW that its thee a* has given me up, I shandu be able to gel another chap ; bat if they thlnß that IVe given you up, then l oan get another chap. So we’ll have banns published) and when the' wedding day obihes the parson will say to thee, “ Wilt thou have this woman' to be thy Wedded, wife ?*’ and tha must say “ I Will ’* , And when he says to me, “ Wilt thou hate this man to be thy wedded husband I” 1 Shall ■ay “1 Wanna.’* ; ' / 'v, igThc day came, and when the minis* ter mid, " Wilt thou have this Wofnan to be thy wedded Wife V 1 the |man answered t •‘twill.* 1 Than the parson said to tbs Woman vS*’ “ Wilt thou have this man ; to ip thy Weddsd husband I" And she said l—“I will.*’ “ Why,’* said the yonng, man, furiously) “you Mid you Would «*y “I • wlnna.” “1 know that,** Mid the young Woman, “bat I’ve changed tUy mind stabs*** • ;y/r? . /// j i iSiun