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Bruce Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 20, 13 March 1913, Page 4

According to the 'Sydney Daily Telegraph,' several of tl'ie Australian banks havo modified their method of charging customers for keeping an account. Hitherto all accounts were debited with 5s each half-year, irrespective of the amount. Now the charge will not be exacted if the account does not fall below £SO, nor will it be charged on advance accounts. It will be remembered, that the Commonwealth Bank made a similar arrangement some- little time prior to its, opening for ordinary business, A Chinaman at Whangarei, charged with employing in his laundry a § Maori girl after hours without a permit, advanced the defence that the girl was his fiancee and went to the laundry only in the course of courtship and not to work while her mother went with her as cluiperone. The defence was not successful. "The ratepayer, as a rule, is a most extraordinary person," declared the Mayor of ChrisU'hureh, Mr H. Holland, in the course of an adress to ladies the other night. "When he wants a lamp, or an improved sidewalk, or anything else, and the question of cost is mentioned, he says, 'Never mind about the money, let's have the thing done'; but when he gets his rate notices he sings quite a different tune." In dismissing a Brooklyn husband' l suit against his wife, who left him on tho ground that she found her mothw-in-law unbearable, for desertion, Justice Crane tlijis defined the position of a mother-in-law in her son's home. The trees and plantations along the railway between Ashburton and Christchurch suggested to Sir Eider Hazard during his journey northward the subject of afforestation, and he was soon speaking strongly, vigorously and eloquently on tho necessity for preserving the native forests of New Zealand. He has taken part in schemes of this nature in England, and he said that here, perhaps, there was more need for pixv solvation and fresh planting than in any other part of the world. "If the husband's mother makes discord and interferes in the management of the home, even at the son's request, or makes things unpleasant for tho wife, then the wife may leave the husband and cause him to pr.wlo a separate home for her. The mother-in-law must know and keep her puticular place as a member of the household. '