Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 25 February 1913, Page 3

"This disease of interfering with little children is becoming too rife in Auckland," remarked Mr Justice Edwards at Auckland yesterday. "The disease has assumed very large proportions at Auckland, and is to Up found more or less in other parts of the Dominion. Tlie streets are the playgrounds of the poor," he added. "Therefore it is our duty to make those streets 'as safe for the children of the poor as the grounds of Government House are for the children of his Majesty's representative in New Zealand." Among several 'amusing; stories bv Bishop Wood at the Melanesian Mission meeting at Ohristchuroh the other night was the following:—A white man and a. native were walking along the beach of a certain island, when suddenly the native espied a figure a 001H.0 of miles ahead, and exclaimed: "There my enemy." The white man had a pair of field-glasses with him, 'and handed them to the native. This brought the enemv into olose view, and the native picked up his gun to shtfot. But as soon as he droiwed the glasses, the enemy faded into the distanced The- native picked up the glasses agftin, and' tlrd .eni>m.y once more came into close view. The native once again picked up his gun to shoot, and as he dropped , the glasses the enemy once more faded into the distance. ' 'Here,'' yelled the native to the missionary, "hold the glasses to my! e?es while I Bhtot."