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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1904, Page 4

The Chief Justice has improved in health, and expects to be able to attend at the Court to-morrow. "Your land laws are excellent," said M. Zelenko, the Russian journalist, to a Christchurch interviewer. "Indeed, I will remark generally that in every direction New Zealand seems to have adopted the best reforms for actual existing evils of which society complains more or less everywhere. In educational matters, so far as i have been able to judge, you eeem. to be almost entirely influenced by Engglish ideas. The systems which obtain in France and Germany do not seem to have been studied. The intellectual dependency of the people here upon Europe, and especially England, is, as must be expected on the part of co small and young a nation, very great. It is inevitable that it should be so. By the bye, with reference to land legislation, it may interest you to know that in Russia, as here, we have the system of advances to eettlers in Siberia.'' A meeting of the Seatoun Road Board was held yesterday. There were present : Messrs. F. Townsend (Chairman), M T M'Grath, C. J. Crawford, and H. E. Richards. It was decided to form a zigzag road from the Karaka Bay wharf to the, top of the hill, at a cost of £17. The Clerk reported tnat satisfactory progress Was being made with the fon .>.tioii of Sefton-road and Rongotai-terract, on the Watts Peninsula Land Company s proparty. It was decided that the Chairman and the Clerk should report as to the best means for preventing sand blowing upon Marine-parade, Seatoun, and the encroachment of the sea' on the- parade. Tenders for the removal of nightsoil from the who.c of the Seatoun district are to be called forthwith. Sitting in his civil jurisdiction at the Magistrate's Court to-day, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs m the following cases :— E. W. Mills and Co., Limited, v. Frederick Robinson, £5 12s Id, costs £1 3s 6d; Wellington Iraders -Agency v. Rebecca Livingstone, £1 Is 6d, costs 10s; James R. Patterson v. Arthur Dunn, £2 195,, costs 10s; Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Co., Limited, v. William Henry Paget, £6, costs 8s ; Upchurch and Costello v. George Baylis, iun., £6 14s, costs 8s; Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited, v. James John O'Leary, £4 7s 3d, .costs ss; Joseph William Bridge v. Alice Duckett, £7 17s, costs £1 3s 6d; George Winder v. Roger W. Bradlee, £7 16s 6d, costs £1 9s 6d; W. and G. Turnbull and Co. v. Thomas Gordon, £1 4s lid, costs ss. In the defended case, Mary Aitken v. Alfred Harris, a claim ,of £4 4s for a midwife's retaining fee, judgment was for defendant, for whom Mr. Wilford appeared, with £1 Us costs. Mr. Tanner appeared for the plaintiff. The Pacific Lodge of Druids held its fortnightly meeting last night, Brother J. Bingham, A.D., presiding. An invitation was received from the Coronation Lodge to attend the pound night celebrating the opening of their new lodgeroom. A donation was voted in response to an appeal on behalf of a distressed Brother in Otago. Notices of motion were given for next Grand Lodge meeting : , "That the Executive be instructed to press upon the Government the necessity of having provision made in tho new Friendly Societies Act for the annual returns being accepted when made up to the date of the lodges' annual balance," and "that the North Island District resolves to loin the proposed United District Grand Lodge Conference." • The Star Boating Club will open its racing season on sth November. The following strokes have been selected for the senior and junior fours : — Seniors — Bayfield, Dowland, Bendall, Hughes, Oswin. Juniors — E. Johnston, W. Brown, A. M. Thdmson, S. Cowles, Barron, M'Donnell, A. Turnbul!, W. H. Warren, F. Alexander, G. C. Girdlestone, J. J. M'Leod. Crews are to be selected tonight either personally or by proxy. It was recorded in Saturday's Post ' that Edward Raven, a young man who had been sentenced in New Plymouth to two years' imprisonment for procuring another person to perform an illegal operation, had been released' by the Government as the result of representations regarding the prisoner's having turned King's evidence. According to the Taranaki News, the news of the pelease caused "a shock of surprise and indignation" amongst a public which had agreed that his sentence was "a well-earned term of imprisonment." In the most indignant teims the News proceeds: — "It may be the law of the land — we suppose it must be — but we look upon it as a travesty of justice, a gross injustice to the public weal. If Raven's pardon had been arranged for, what was the use of passing the sentence, accompanied as it was by the grave and weighty words of the learned Judge? The thing is absurd. We hope never to see another case like this in New Plymouth." Our contemporary thinks, however, that it should do some good in serving to warn people who perform illegal operations of what they may expect from those who seek their aid to relieve them of the consequences of their folly. The debate on "The Decreasing Birthrate and the Fertility of the Unfit" was resumed at the Socialist Hall on Sunday night. Mr. Kraig, in opening the debate, argued that a return to a simpler -life and greater facilities for getting back to, the land would minimise vie evils of a decreasing birth-rate, which in a country like New Zealand could only be considered a national calamity. ' Dealing with Dr. Chappie's work, the speaker said it was a thoughtful contribution to the subject, and revealed a real danger. If the unfit were increasing in a greater ratio than the fit, the State ought to step in and cry "Halt." Dr. Chappie's remedy was open to criticism, but was well worthy of serious consideration. Mr. Hulbert considered that a good case had not been made out for an increasing birth-rate, and reiterated his statement of last Sunday that the worker in limiting his family had dealt the severest blow to Capitalism. Mr. Hampton, who occupied the chair, stated that such reformers as Dr. Chappie were dealing with effects, and leaving causes out of consideration. While the social system was allowed to go on manufacturing defectives, the evil could never be properly dealt with. Mr. Eagle and others also took part in the debate. The weekly meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, was held in the Rechabite Hall last evening, Bro. C. S. Kelly, C.T., presiding. Three new candidates were initiated. The lodge was thrown open to the public, and Bro. A. B. Thomson gave an interesting and- instructive lecture on "The Wonderful Century." A vote of thanks was passed to the lecturer, who promised to address the lodge again at some future date. The preliminary steps have been taken to form a rifle club in connection with the Wellington Old Navals' Association. At a meeting of the Association last night Messrs. J. Rabe, Bulford, Brogan, Skinner, and A France were appointed a committee to arrange details in connection with the rifle club scheme. Captain Bell and Master-Gunner Richardson were present, and both promised to assist the Association in every possible way. It was decided to attend a lecture to be given by Master-Gunner Richardson on matters of interest to the Association. The children will Boon be wanting sunhats and bonnets, and hot-weather costumes. Read the advertisement of Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., on page 7.— Advt.