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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 8

The manner in -which the British party system' shuts out the host and tijo • most experienced administrators must make ttoi gods laugh; It ! finds ■.prominent place for a second-rate solicitor hfecMr. L; oyd-George ; for a pert overgrown schoolboy-liko Air. \\ mston Churchill. It finds no .place-'for great men like Lord Cureon, Lord Cromcr, and Lord Jiilner. Inferior politicians • play ducks and drakes with the Empire; men of. great parts and wide knowlcdgo -eat" out their hearts in inactivity.—"limes of.lndia," Bombay. ; ; ' :, ' ' ' "

■ivlistic circles' in Berlin are greatly excited at* the work of a spiritualist medium named. Mis Assmann, who, while in a trance, paints the'most wonderful' pictures, -although in her waking moments she has no knowledge at all of drawing or painting.. She is. the wife of a small merchant in a small way here. . Art connoisseurs declare that her pictures are! of considerable value, mid Professor Gruetzner, (■ho famous painter of Munich, who has seen her says that they show Great .talent and imagination. " ! ' ' .'.'. ~..

A commercial: traveller's exuberance■ got him ' into trouble in Wesrpprt n few days" ago.,. Aiiolltor commercial traveller and a younir iiuly had been charged, with, having, picked .a flowers and greenery from a grave .in -tho,. Orawaili cemetery, and 'the Magistrate had . just i;iven his judgment dismissing thc.inforinalions, wlieiv Mr. lirchhor; a local 'coimner- ; cial traveller, called out from the'b'ody of tho Court, " Hurrah, the Dominion' for ■ justice!" " Hrini; . that man back," demanded- tho Masistrate, and. tho police (says ,the Westport "Mews) instiintly ' divert >nt'. the door, ar- . rested the offender, and brought him hack into the Court. Uis Worship, asked him, what ha meant by cryiair out as'lie h'ad'dbrio.

"1 wish to say that I .only acted oiv.'nii iie-' pulse. Surely a , person : is at liberty to'ex-.: : press his own feelings in a case , liko this?" ■' " No, you are not," said tho Magistrate. "In a Court of law. a person has no right to.:ex--'. press his feelings.". !'Thon I. apologise,' , said .< the ollender. ■'.' that case, 1 will let you .- oil', but lake warning for. the '.future;" roplMd, > the Magistrate,' and the incident /euded..'■.,-!,