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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 111, 11 May 1915, Page 7

. it.ca-ic)n;illy a solicitor abruptly übandon.- t'ii , iNamiuation of a judfnncnt I dcotur wiiiii hi- wee that the i-aec ie h'l-oliTf. Tliprc was a, race in point .it tin' Wellington Magistrate's Court n-ri'iit'y. Tin' debtor liad entered the liii\ ;.. c.vpiaiu t':c;it. after providing "'for tin' rriiMinaWe maintenance" of hirnseli :tII, J family, lir hud not. since the datn of jinlpMiciit. lunl Hiifli<-ient money to pay iSir il.-lit. "How much do you get a \V( i k : ' " i :,r<'c jiniimjri eleven." "How tinny rl'.iMicn :" 'Nine." Them wer;. nil more • |iir»liniip, and riie 'Alagiiistrate A i'<irri'~|niridviil write*: "A small Iμ.Ml ill l.i-l 11:ir'11 "~tar' taker, from a i liri-li-iiur.ii paper, that .lags should ii»t '.>■ llown halt-mast wheu our men lull in ii.itlli-. ha-; a reason l>ehind it I Unit ,-umi !«• easily understood by i'iitviiih , : fl.i'i* ill half-mast arc an acknowledgment of victory on the part of the <!)i'iny. and ionics from an old prac--1 iii- ni the victor hoisting liia flag above tliat uf t!ie vanquished, and a flag half-ni.i.-t i-. just a reasonable distance down in allinv I he i-ncmy'ci Hag to be hoisted almve .t: and in an ordinary case of death claiming a loved one we halfmasl the li.i<: in token of the victory scored over u< by death: but when .It-:itli is met in defending the Empire. we look on it as the act of the human enemy, and we keep the Hap living rifiht up at the top of the mast; we acknowledge no vi.tury against us: and have no right to half-mast the national flag, nit if a man lias a private (lag which i» iu>t a personal tlaz. he miaht, halt-mast it. iii token of a personal lose." The Wnlliau Downs railway extension in Sdiitli Canterbury is being pushed on vigorously by the Public Works Uepartn: lit. and it is expected that the house work, contracts will be put in han'l in the spring. The opening of tliia railway nil) give a arcat stimulus to the graingrowing indiuttry in tlio district.