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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 4

A number of correspondents have written to us exposing astonishment that Mis. Diake should have been admitted to bail after being found guilty of manslaughter. One correspondent wishes to know "if such a course of action il without precedent, or is unusual." On making enquiries, we are informed that Iho action taken by Mr. Justice Edwurds is neither unusual nor without precedent. A difference is always made in the treatment of the criminal and the non-criminal classes, and Mrs. Diake comes under the latter class. Our correspondents quote cases in which piisoners who had been found guilty had appealed to the' higher Court, but were incarcerated until their cases were finally disposed of. In these cases, in which tho parties concerned were not unknown to the police, sentence was passed before the appeals were sent on, and bail cannot be granted,, after sentence has been passed. Judging from the present value of fresh eggs, as compared with previous seasons, it would appear that the increased interest token in |the poultry trade during tho past two years is having a good effect upon tho market value for this important resultant product. Better systems of preserving for the winter demand have been discovered with the effect that the market is now prevented from being glutted at that period when supplies are exceedingly heavy, say, the months of August, September, October, and November ; tho surplus being readily absorbed for preserving and utilisation during tho off season. A comparison of wholesale values for three years will prove interesting — 23rd August, 1900, 7Ad to 8d dozen ; 1901, 84d dozen ; 1902, lOd per 'dozen. A gradual increase is apparent throughout the period under review. Another factor will intervene this year to fuagier stiffen values, as evidenced by'tne following extract from the letter of c-ne^of the leading egg-brokers of Auckland *to a merchant in Wellington :—": — " Since tho advance in the price of meat the enquiry for eggs has been very distinctly influenced and the demand Is now greater than the supply. Although the wholesale value is now 9d f.o.b. here, I feel certain that lOd will be next week's prico, and the market firm at that." All circumstances seem to indicate a, prosperous season for those interested in this industry. With a view, of popularising the sport, a proposal win be mode to tho annual meeting of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club that ladies should be admitted to membership on payment of a reduced fee, and that races for yachts steered by ladies should be .held each year. A young man has written us a busi-ness-liko Tetter from Blenheim on the subject of matrimony. Ho is "anxious to get married, but can't for want off funds to make a home," and points out that for the eamo reason there are a. great number of men and women ' passing through life without a chance of being wedded, and of bringing up families. As a remedy he proposes that the Evening Post should open no agency worked on tho subscription basis, that members: should contribute a certain sum annually, and that life partners be drawn for quaiterly. The lucky couple under this refreshing/ scheme would be entitled to the net proceeds of 'the quarter less 'lo* per cent.— s per cent, for upkeep of the lottery, and 5 per cent, for local charities. The bold manner in which the proposer ignores the sentimentality upon which marriage is alleged to hinge enlists our admiration, but the whole scheme is one which we must decline to handle. The responsibility of controlling a lottery for the ladling out of prospective wives and husbands four times a year, and of issuing to them a sufficient sum to build a' house wherein the haz r ardous business of bringing up a family might bo earned on, is a trifle too gigantic. However, if we ever set up business 03 universal suppliers of healthy tragedies we will give the Blenheim proposal a fair trial. . .-4 .• The number of -.school children receiving instruction in drill at the end of 1901 jvas 94,116. There were 101 cadet companies, with a strength of 4851 members. The number of J jnodel rifles on issuo to the Boards at the end of the year was 3850. The • Education Department has in hand 500 Westley-Richards and .310 miniature Martini-Henry rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition, which will be issued at the rate of ten rifles per company, or less", according to strength, with a proportionate allowance of ammunition to practice in shooting. A union of general carriers and forwarding agejjts, to be known and registered as the Wellington General Carriers' Industrial Union of Employers, was formed at a representative meeting held last night. The object of the union is to protect the interests of employers in business. A committee was set up to draft rules and to deal with other matters requiring urgent attention. A stimulus to literary talent is, we observe, announced by "The Young Men's Magazine" in connection with its Christinas Number. A prise of £5 5s is offered for the best original story, and and a prize of £2 2s for the best original poem. There ought to be an extensive response on tho part of those possessing literary aspirations. >' Further information is to be found in an intimation published in the advertising columns of this issue. With reference to the complaint made regarding the delivery, of tho Mokoia'a Australian mails, we are informed that the mails by tho Mokoia, which arrived at midday on Wednesday, were sorted into tho receiving boxes by 3 p.m. that day. The mails which arrived at Auckland on Monday reached Wellington by train on Thursday night. The complaint was made on the supposition that only one mail came to hand from Sydney, but, as has been indicated, thero were two, and it was the second mail which was mistaken for matter delayed in delivery from the Mokoia. The moils brought b« the Mokoia wore of later date than those which arrived via Auckland, and this fact was tho primary cause of the misunderstanding. Whatever blame attaches for delay rests ou the shoulders of the Sydney postal officials, and not on those of this colony. A deputation from the-Torrey Mission Committee, consisting of Messrs. J. 6. W. Aitken (Mayor), and W. H. Kersley and the Rev. W. J. Elliott, wailed upon the Minister and the General Manager of Railways yesterday afternoon. The deputation made the request that special excursion fares should be granted upon tho Government lines from New Plymouth, Napier, and way places on Saturday next and the Monday and Tuesday following, to enable the people from those districts to attend -the Torrey Mission. The deputation intimated that the Christchurch and Dimcdin Committees were awaiting, the Ministers answer to their request. It was pointed' out that tho concession asked for had been granted for race meetings, and that greater interest was being evinced in the coining mission than was evinced in a race meeting. Mr. Ronayne (General Manager) said the department's experience in granting concessions had not been altogether happy ones, and that the grauting of tho present request would moan a loss of revenue. Sir Joseph Ward intimated that he could not see his way to grant the request. In every home that is comfortable the feminine taste rules ; that's why Suratura Tea goes into so many happy households. — Advt.