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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8407, 8 November 1912, Page 8

An exciting incident occurred re■cently during a consecration ceremony in Kentish Town, at which was present Princess Marie of. Schleswig-Holstein. *fhe Suffragan Bishop of Willesden had just taken his seat at the altar, when three men' rushed' down the aisles to the sanctuary and began addressing the liishop. i The interrupters, wiio were discovered .to be .'■ followers' of the late Mr K'ensit, the; famous anti-ritualist, /were promptly ejected by the-choristers, assisted by others. - • . .

Sir James Ci:ichton-Browne, an authority. On brain'diseases, maintains -that children of ages from 4 to 17 years should have 12 hours' sleep in tlie 24J persons between 17 and 21 should sleep for 9| hours, between 21 and 27 for 9 hours, and above that age for 8 hours. The sleep of the rising generation, declared the x doctor, was ■lieiug detrimentally disturbed, and a rich crop of neurasthenia would be the result. , ■

. When the lower House waited last aright for the Speaker's return from ihe Governor with the vice-regal signature to the Appropriation Bill, memliers conducted a Parliament on unconT4?nti.onal lines, their efforts to amuse tho o>ov/ded galleries being fairly suc<>wsr<il: Tho basis of the fun was i satire on the Orakei Model Suburb .1?ill. The worthy citizens of Auckland purpose establishing a model - suburb 5n tho Maori reserve at Orakei. Tho retaliatory Bill for the mock Parliament's consideration declared its-pur-pose, as the establishment of a Maori, pa ,:<ni the Auckland citizens' domain, •or, as the Bill put it with due'regardto proper'phraseology, "to build there■oll a model kaino;a or na in the paloo-lithic-Gothio-Corinthic-Gra?c-n - Roman Cumberland-catch-as-ratch-can or other stylo, arid under the Marquis of Que<?nsiKJiry or Syjorting Club rules." J