SWEATED INDUSTRIES. EXHIBITION IN THE TOWN HALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1907, Page 8

SWEATED INDUSTRIES. EXHIBITION IN THE TOWN HALL.

This afternopn the Mayor of Wellington officially opened the exhibition of specimens of the sweated industries of Great Britain collected by the Labour Department for the Christchurch Ex r hibition. A description of the specimens has already appeared in the Post. Since the closing of the International Exhibition the collection has been exhibited in various centres of the colony, under the direction of the Labour 'Department. The display in Wellington is made in tho main corridor of the Town Hall, along the Victoria-street frontage, and will be open to the general public free of charge. All persons interested in the industrial phase of how the poor earn their living in thb sweaters' dens of the Old Country should not fail to pay the Exhibition a visit. There are to be seen articles of clothing which were made at such low prices that it is difficult to realise that such a state of sweating is possible in a civilised community. The articles have been well arranged, and a series of Enlarged photographs serves to still further emphasise the conditions under which submerged tenth of London and other groat cities work out a living at starvation rates.

Mr. Justice Button has gone to Wanganui to preside at tho sitting of the Supreme Court to bo held there to-mor-row and following days. The list is as I follows ; The King v. Samuel J. Gibbons, alleged attempt to pervert the course of justice; the King v. Richard H. Liddicote, alleged forgery; the King v. Francis Herbert Coles, alleged false, pretences. There are also some civil and divorce suits set down. The late Captain Simon Bender, whose death in his 71st year was chronicled in Saturday's Post", was an old colonist. He came to New Zealand m the year 1857 in the ting Dart from Sydney, and left shortly after to join in the gold rush in Queensland, Rockhampton being the base of operations. Meeting with indifferent fortune, he returned to Sydney, and was engaged for some time in the first ferry boat service that was then started, running from Sydney to North Shore. He returned to New Zealand in tho schooner Ocean Queen in 1859, trading to Nelson, Lyttelton, and Wellington. In 1864 he weiny to his native Isle, Jersey, where he married, and the following year came back to the colony with his wifo in the ship Berar. Since then he resided here continuously. The- late Captain Bender leaves a widow and a family of four sons and daughters. Archbishop Redwood has not received any communication from Rome with reference to the cablegram stating that the. Roman Congregational Council -has issued a decree changing the conditions of marriages. Bishop Grimes, speaking to a Christchurch Press reporter on the subject, said he took it that the new decree would apply only to countries in which the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage had been promulgated. This was not tho case in New Zealand, nor as a rule in missionary countries. If his view were correct, the Bi&hop added, the new decree would jiot have the effect of altering the regulations on marriage now obtaining among tho Catholics of this country. My« Wright, Lyoll Bay-road, Kilbirnio, sets out ill an advertisement in this issuo the attractions of a Resurrection plant. Evidence was taken in the Magistrate's Court this afternoon in a case Carl Foller v. Geo. Musgjove, «. claim for £10 for salary. Hearing was proceeding when .we w.ont toj>re|»t