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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 6

[ An accident occurred on the, Kelburno cable tramway yesterday afternoon. Mr. Morrison, manager of the New Plymouth Freezing Works, was knocked down at the Talavera, station by a car, and severely injured. Dt. Holmes, who attended, to his injuries, found it necessary to amputate three of the toes of one foot, which had been badly crushed. Mr. Morrison is progressing fairly well. By lectures and by the distribution of literature the representatives of the New Zealand- Tourist and Industries departments at ' Sydney and Melbourno are keeping the Dominion before tho eyes of the Commonwealth. During November, 1228 visitors (1172 local and 56 foreign) called at the Melbourne agency, and the Sydney total was 1082 (1013 local and 69 foreign). The report published in The Post of Tuesday regarding the secondary schools of New Zealand shooting" competition dees not apply to the schools of tho Empire Match, the results of which wilP not be available for publication until the results are officially declared. In the Empire • Match any rifle of Government pattern may ho used, while tho New Zealand Match is fired with carbines. Battered and discoloured by time, crjss -crossed and stained >rith ink, a vagrant letter has just reached Mr. T. E. Donne. It left New Yprk on 4th March, 1905, addressed to Mr. Dbnno at St. Louis. After various adventures the tramp found its way to London on 29th October this year. At 2 o'clock next morning it was on its way to Wellington, and had po further mis- ■ haps. In the Divorce Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Button, Arthur Perry, . merchant, Wellington, petitioned for a dissolution of marriage with Alice Perry, - ' ,on the ground of failure to comply with s an order for restitution of conjugal rights granted: on 20th August. Mr. Fair appeared for tho petitioner, and MrKirk' for the respondent, ' who did not Taise a defence. His Honour granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute at the • expiration of three months. If there is any place in the world where it is essential to hear all that \* said, that place is a court of Jaw. If . there is any place that is worse for hearing in than tho Magistrate's Court, Wellington, it must be a monument of bad acoustics. In our local court the prisoner usually assumes a vacant look that shows he is not cognisant of what , is taking place ; the magistrate is constantly asking witnesses to speak up," while the reporters have to strain every nerve •to catch what is said. When to all these disabilities 's added tho noise of rattling' windows, whispering spectators, and shuffling feet, t.hit miracle is that anything is done at all. Improvement is badly needed. A gruesome "exhibit" was" shown in tho South Australian Assembly the other day. Speaking on the Gaining Bill (reports the Melbourne Atgns), Mr. Dankel said he would like to see a State lottery in Australia and a Government "tote." Mr, Roberts was proceeding to cast doubt on the statement of Brigadier Veal, of the Salvation Army, that a mob of gamblers had nipped off the ringer of a companion who had joined the Salvation Army and sought to leave them (tho gamblers), when the Premier dramatically stretched out his hand, with a bottle jn it, and exclaimed, "Here is the" •tip of the finger, and here" (holding up a document in the other hand) "is the letter which accompanied it." A great 6ensation was caused by this act. but Mr. Roberts stated that the production of a.pieoe of a finger was po prqof that it had been pinched off in the circumstances named. He .refused to believ® that tho event happened in Australia, although the statement of the captain was that the incident occurred in Sydney. "Capio Lumen" writes to The Posfc to say that he has noticed, throughout the city, houses built in close proximity to each other— say, from six to eight feet apart. He then- quotes from section 352 of the Municipal Corporation! Act, 1900, and asks why the city authorities have no t t compelled people to observe its provisions, notably, as to air-space and passage way.v The queotion was passed on to tho City Engineer byja Post reporter. Mr. Monton replied that the sections of the Act were correctly quoted,' but the complaint was out of date. The Act now applying istho amendment of 1906 to the Amended Municipal Corporations Act of 1902. The air-space required is 300 feet, , and it may be at side or rear. In its bylaws the Corppration requires a passage way 3 feet 6 inches in width, and if at the opposite side to that on which the passage way is situated ■ tho external wall is of wood, it must be 3 feet from the adjoining section. If built of brick, there is no compulsion to provide the 3 foet passage. "It is with regret that we hear of the departure of a large batch of new emigrants to New South Wales," says the St. James's Budget. "For these were domestic servants, and in their case the value of emigration seems to us doubtful — from a national point of view. Nor, do we rightly understand the reasons for this class of emigration. For there are in England more "places" than domestio servants — of any trained intelligence — to fill them, and the parlourmaid, the housemaid, the tweeny, above all the cook, aro so, far mistresses bf the situation at home that we wonder why on earth thoy (should 'wish to emigrate. Can it be that the idea of the honourable work of domestic service, which is so abhorrent at home that girls prefer the much fiercer labours and lurrder life of shop service, acquires some new dignity tor novel attraction when the ocean is put between home and 'place 1 ? Or can it be that, the real lodestar is the Parliamentary vote, and are we to believe that the suffragist ranks me chiefly recruited from tno ranks of domestic service ? Whatever tho explanation, we regret this new departure. For we haye 1 * no fancy for carrying our own coals, eating a wifely cookodi dinner, or being reduced to the assistance of the heathen Chinee." '"Pejorus Jack," who, some time back, became rather a bore to *.he average New Zealander, still charms the Americans. A few weeks ago the Boston Herald came out with an illustrated article headed with huge black type that ran halfway across a page, "The Fish that Has Piloted Boats Twenty Years " The sub-heading was, "Peiorus Jack Shows Discrimination in the Selection * oi Craft, and he is Protected by a Royal Order." The reading matter began soberly thus: "Peiorus Jack is nature fake. William fl. Bain, of Bain Bros., Milk-street, tolls tho story. And William H. Bain can prove tho story with photographs, documentary evidence (not written by Jack, by the way), and an ordtsr-in-council by the Governor of New Zealand. ... He exhibits the instincts of a policeman faithful, to his Beat, anrt he has certain prejudices and likings in the matter of steamers that . uobody can explain." (3y the way Ihat William H. Bain spoke to the American pressman, it seems that Peiorus Jack has a time-table of all vesbals' movements, and has a watch to assist him' to make dramatic appearances. It has been alleged that "Jack" dislikes the steamer Penguin, and gives her a wide berth, but some or William H. Bain's pictures were secured from the Penguin. Christmas shopping has begun in real earnest, and Santa Claus is distributing his toys freely. Bring the children here 10-mor-ow.— Kirkcaldie and Stains, ■ Ltd.