IMMINENT DANGER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 146, 21 June 1901, Page 2

IMMINENT DANGER.

(To the Editor.) • Sir,—On reading in to-night's "Star" that the inquest had to .be adjourned to July Ist to meet the wishes of a crentleman who is going on a pleasure trip I fully sympathised with the indignant jurymen. I think the plea wholly inadequate and that the Coroner would have been justified m refusing to accept it. This Cbristchurch review business is overdoing the thing altogether. The Duke and the Duch--1 ess must think that the Government ; have more money than judgment. We all know that there is not much, if I any, of the former to spare. The best corrective for the excess of : pleasure is to insist that the Government employees come under the same I rules are so flippantly forced upon I the business people. A witness in a recent Court'case said he thought it would be better if ; Queen-street were wholly taken up by j bookmakers. How would it do to ! have racing every day for the rest of i the year? Some think the mere cir- ; dilation of money would keep things I going. Some day Xew "Zealand will ' have a rude awakening. The craving ! for amusement and distaste for work jis sapping the vitality of the youths . and maidens of our colony. This, ; combined with excessive smoking and I drinking, will assuredly cause race dej terioration, as the acclimatisation of i the plague would do. In the case of j the latter the people would realise ■ their danger; in the former they love to have it so. "Truly, there is a way that appears pleasant unto a man, but the end of these things is death." —I am, etc., SENTINEL. June 20, 1901.