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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 8

3 : The necessity ' for an '.up-tc-dats drainage sy'ste;n' for- Auckland brought home to reei--1 dents of and travdleVs io tho'marine,suburbs ' at every spring tide. TKc discharging sewer at the foot" of Queen Stroet, under thoWharf, [ has, especially at tho recent low spring .tides, r been jnost : offensive, and : many complaints, . have been made. 'fhu nuisance is only notieo- . ablo for a period of about, two hours at each r low tide, but is, nevertheless, a distinct men- ' aoo to health, and a decidedly bad advertise^ ■ mont for tho city. .... . Mistress (who is engaging new.maid-and iv growing .rather tired cf her numerous .objections): "Of courso, if you objcct l to tho children, we could drown them,"—"Tatler." Rose-priming reminds me somewhat of short ' hand. You begin by mastering .the rules, and ? having (loiw.that you start on,tho exceptions, ■ which are nearly las numerous, and on the top ■' of i t all the 1 success of tlic whole thing depeuda 1 tahrolv on practice—" Estate Magazine." 1 AVe'all desire to see British ships manned by ! British seamen. The difficulties in the way are, • 'manifold.. Voluntary attempts at training boys for tho sea.life have met with but indifferent success. -The conditions of life at sea must b» improved, if wo would. largely increase tho. number of British seamen.—"Shipping World." O.ui' business class'as a whole is still governed largely .by tho principles of. humanitarian ! morality. The disadvantage is obvious if they are: to take active part'in the commerce''of .'the' i 'world.' They should liiako every-effort to; cul-' tivate the principles which; the : heartless' com- : morcial molality of the West dictates.— ■" Japan' Times," Tokio. • .