Women Who Will Wed Convicts

-A consignment of fifty womcn win oe dlspatchel in a fewdavs from Bordeaux to Nimica at the expense of the 1-rench Government and on the distinct umlerstanding that on reaching their destination thêy must contract marriage with those convicta whoni the local iiuthonties wish to reward for good oonduct by conferring wives upon tnem. It should bo explained that tkese women toreiut been pressed int the service. Although old offenders, Üiey are going toNumea of their own free will to settle down _as respectable oonviot's wiyes. Howthe match-makinff will bc carried on is at present unexplained. Curtains of fishermen' s twine are new and likely to bc fashionable.