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Evening Star, Issue 14690, 6 October 1911, Page 4

"No Legislature ever contemplated the full consequences of any measure it passed. ! If it did it, would be an ideal Legislature, ] and one, I am afraid, that does not exist | out of Utopia. It is onlv practice that j brings the position to light." This remark was made by Mr Justice Denniston during | the hearing of an appeal case in Welling- | tan. The remark was prompted by a sub- j mission by Mr T. F. Martin that a certain | reading of the Act was "not the intention i of the Legislature." At another stage of j the case Mr Justice Denniston remarked that the Legislature's languaga was distinct from the English language—very often. The bazaar nt St. Kilda in aid of the funds for building a chapel there cam© to an end last night, and we understand that through the energy of the vicar of Caversham and local friends the sum of over £IOO has*been raised. The tnkings at the- Horticultural Society's Show last night came to £26, making £63 for the two days, or £lB better than Inst year. As these shows are growing : n size and importance, and involving extra work, we suggest that the committee might take- into consideration the advisability of making a rule (and enforcing it) requiring exhibitors to stage earlier in - the day. A man will be charged in the Police Court en Monday with having committed an act of indecency in Jubilee Park. The Trades and Labor Council last night instructed the secretary to write to the Council of Churches and the ministers of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church requesting that Sunday, October 22, should be set aside as Labor Sunday, and special sermons delivered dealing with the Labor question. The registrars of electors for the City recaived instructions to-day to proceed with the preparation of the new parliamentary xollf.. They a re to be jpuelwd on with all desjpafccbi

A suggestion as to the evils of party in politics drew from Sir Jsmes Carroll, at a dinner in Wellington, a characteristic comment. "We must all share to a certain degree," he said, ''in the-•■deprecation of party politics. Still, we have to admit, so far as history is able to inform us. all nations and governments, wherever politics exist, so long as there axe differences of opinion, naturally divide themselves into one set or another. These differences of opinion mast manifest themselves in some established order. You -will find the Tory party and the Whig party, the Reform PArty and the Deform party—(laughter)— the Liberal and the Conservative parties, and, as time goes on, Radical parties. Social parties, and Communistic parties, all in section*. When you come down to practical bedrock you have what you call the 'ins' and what you call the 'outs.' " Mr H. Y. Widdoweon, S.M., eat in the Police Court this morning to grant a prohibition order against a woman on the application of her son. A resolution was passed by the Trades and Labor Council last night endorsing the principle of Mr Newman's Hereditary Titles Prevention Bill. The sketch plans of the proposed Town Hall were considered by the Finance Committee of the City Council last evening, when it was decided to ask the city building surveyor to furnish more details in respect to" the building. They will como before the committee at their ordinary meeting in a week'& time. The Conciliation Coraiuksioner (Mr J. R. Trigg*) pat yesterday to hear the industrial dispute between the Dunedin and Moegiel Woollen Milk Employees' Union of Workers and Messrs Roes and Glendining and the Moegiel Woollen Factory Company. After discussion the citting was adjourned, pending the hearing of the Canterbury employeee' dispute. Thus will be heard "next Thursday, and it is anticipated that an agreement will then be drawn up on the bask of a Dominion award.

Customs officers havo found that one test which is required from the Chinese on leaving and returning to Australia iis bittorlv resented by Uie yellow people (says the ' Age '). That ie the taking of impressions of their Jinnde, so that if one Chinese goes and another teeke to return on hi 6 papers the finger-print system may indicate the substitute. The practice is regarded by the Chinese as most degrading. The Customs officers etate that the. Chinwe havo long known of the finger-print system, and have employed it, but only in connection with criminals. The Chinese mind cannot direoeiate the ideas. Consequently the Chinese whose finger-prints are ta'kcn is treated,'in their view, ae, nothing more or lees than a criminal, which to a respectable member of Chincee society is very great degradation indeed. The question of a site for the secondary hospital occupied the attention of the Charitable Aid and Hospital Board for fully an hour and a-half last night, and no conclusion was arrived at. As the discussion was in committee we cannot give a hint as to what was said as to the various areas under offer, but we may remark that the chairman (Mr Walker) pointed out to members the advisability of securing a large enough piece of land to inset the needs of the establishment not only for the present but in the coming years. A violent earthquake shock just after 7 o'clock last evening alarmed the residents of Xapier and Hastings, and they rushed from their houses into the streets. At Hastings the post office tower was displaced, and ugly cracks are showing in the brickwork. Part of the coping from the top of the Provincial Hotel at Napier came down, and pieces of plaster were dislodged from other buildings. Wanganui also received a severe shake, but no damage is reported. The Library Committee have recommended the City Council to fall in line with other centres and close the library on Labor Day. Christmas Day. New Year's Day. and I food Friday. It has been found by experience that the attendance on those days, owing to the local papers not publishing, is very limited. The Christ church ' Press ' says that local registrars of electors are having their lives m:icie a burden to them v.n the lestilt of inquiries forth? new rolls, and that matter regarding the electoral rolls are in a worse state of confusion than is generally the ease just before mi election. In Dunedln, at a'l events, this is not «>. The rn':l, which wilt he printed in Dunedir.. is expected to be ready bv the end of the month, and the recent electoral census was most complete and satisfactory. Mr Widdowson S.M . at a brief sitting of the Port Chalmers Court this forenoon, gnve judgment for plaintiffs, by default, in the following ca?.?.» :—-Daniel C. Wcolsey v. Archibald M'Gregov. izoods supplied £1 3s 2<l and ccets (&>.i ; Frederick W. Platts v. William Erridge, rent £7 10s and costs (£1 3s 6d); Otago Fishermen's Society v. Thomas Lester, material, £1 16s and costs <6s) ; same v. Jolui Rennie, material £1 19& and costs (5.*). Anderson Bay is well on its way to becoming a borough, and when, that consummation is realised the present Town Board will be superseded by a borocgh council. In becoming a borough the Bay is likely to extend its area by tho inclusion of b s urtshir.e and Vauxhall, at present, in tlie Portobello road district. The Portobello Road Board stand* to lose thereby about £250 annually in rates. It is stated bv people acquainted with the matter that when Anderson Bay becomes a borough the rest of the Peninsula should combine' and have its affairs administered by a county council. That coarse would be more "economical, it is snid, than under the present system, whereby the Peninsula is administered bv four road boards—viz.. the Tomahawk "Road Board, the Peninsula Road Board, the Otago Heads Road Board, and the Portobello Road Board. Mr Paulin telephoned at 2p.m. :—Heavy X.E. to N.W. gales: heavy electrical storms over most portions of New Zealand ; barometer fall fast. In speaking at a dedicatory service in the Morav Place Congregational Church last evening, Mr P. Barr, in referring to the Presbyterian Church, said he did not s,ee any reason why the Presbyterian and Congregational ChuTches should not be one, for they were one in very many ways.

A swimming club was formed yesterday evening at Port Chalmers. The Major (Mr F. W. Platts) presided at the. meeting, which was fairly well attended, schoolboys forming a large percentage of the attendant*. After pointing out the undoubted advantages derivable from a knowledge of swimming, Mr Platts moved the formation of an institution, to be known as the Port Chalmers Swimming Club. Mr T. Anderson, in seconding the .notion, endorsed the chairman's remarks ; and Mr Booth, rector of th» District High School, expressed himself as very favorable, in the interest of his pupils, to the formation of the club. Mr Platts was elected president, and he said it was desirable that the occupant of the mayoral' office should be president of the swimming club, one Teason for that being the fact that the swimming baths were the property of the Corporation. Mr J. MayeT was elected secretary, and a committee of five ami five vice-presidents were appointed. It was decided to make membership. open to ladies. The chairman said that a set of rules would be drawn up and submitted at a subsequent meeting. The fees would bo as low as possible. Mr G. F. M'Kellar, who had volunteered free tuition, then proceeded to enroll members for a life-saving class. At the monthly meeting of the executive of the Dunedin Presbyterian Sabbath School Association Mr D. Heath (president) was in the chair, and representatives from 17 schools were present. At the request of a committee of the Presbytery appointed to consider what means could be adopted to bring about a better attendance of children at Sunday morning church services, it was decided to arrange for a meeting with the ministers. The meeting of superintendents is to be held during Assembly week, and the offer from St. Andrew's Sunday School of their new building for the holding of the conference was accepted. It was decided to entertain the members of the conference at tea prior to the conference. The result* of the Assembly's Sabbath schools' examination were received, and it was decided that country schools <3esiring--fciieii prizes before tHe <l&te o£ i-We | demonstration could receive aame on application.

The search for Captain Apstein was contimied to-dav, but no further trace of him than the finding of his hat, recorded yesterday, liae been discovered. Constables were searching the coast line to-day between St. Clair and Lawyer Head. Yesterday afternoon a party of boy scouts beat through the lupinee from end to end. For a satiifactory line o! furniture at reasonable price visit Sanders's Furnishing House, 175 George street.—f/Advt.l The Moheno is advertised to Tun to the Maori Kaik and back on Sunday at excursion rates, The first blush of spring is with us once again, and we, like Nature, aro busy budding forth with an entirely new stock of mens wear. Every day brings novelties of soma sort—headwear, footwear, or neckwear Special window displays this week at Wallaces, the sign of "the Golden Hat," Pnnces street -[Advt] . . No softer or more beautiful effects in pnoto portraiture can be seen anywhere than in the Showcases in vestibule of Moms, photographer, Princes street. Telephone 859.[Advt.] Points where we score—pose, expression, and finish of photographs, accompanied with moderate charges for work. Acme Photo Co , George street. 'Phone 965.—[Advt.J Speight's ale and stout aro acknowledged by the Dominion public to be the best on the market.—fAdvt.]