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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 24 July 1889, Page 2

In concluding his judgment in tho recent licensing caseß at Auckland, in which he refused to grant a mandamus, Mr Juatioe Gillies said:— "l would, however' reiterate, aud intensify, if possible, the advice to these Committees of my brother Biohmond in Hamilton v. Eraser, in which be sajs: 'Ib is, therefore, a tribunal which ought to proceed with the ntmoßt caution and discretion. It ia to be hoped that those who have the execution of this law will reoognise tbe difficulty and delicacy of their position, and give as little occasion as possible for just ootnplßinl. It is certain tbat the cause of temperance, holy though it be, cannot ba advanced by disregard of tbe still more sacred claims of justice,' and I would add that they ought to remember that they have to answer for their aota at a higher tribunal than that of this Court, the tribunal of publio opinion." " The Glasgow Exhibition aooounts (says the Otago Daily Tines') have been reoently issued, and with a total inoome of £225,000 the authorities show a clear profit of £41,000. It is expected that the Bale of the buildings will realise another £5000, bo that £46,000 will ba the actual snrplus. If the Exhibition in Dunedin approaches this tha shareholders will doubtless be well satisfied," No doubt. A correspondent addresses the following letter to the Auckland Herald : — Under the heading of "Revival of Trade," you recently published Borne statistics, showing that during the twelve-month ending June 30th the exports of the oolony had exceeded the imports by some three million pounds sterling in round fignies, and considerable satisfaction is generally felt thereat. It is unpleasant to be always croaking, but it is evident that so far from being matter of congratulation, .these figures show that capital is leaving our country for some other. In the normal condition, the exports and imports of any country should nearly balanoe, the imports of oourse being slightly the larger of the two. A balance of such, magnitude against us shows that value is not coming into the country equal to what is going out. This loss of capital is probably consequent upon the loss of population ; but, in any case, our statesmen should certainly try to find a remedy for an evil which cannot exist long without our feeling the ill effects severely. •In reference to "rings" and "corner?," " Oivis" writes in tha Otago Witness: — What about the extraordinary evolutions being performed just now by certain vessels of tbe Union Steam Ship Company's fleet? Two boats owned in Sydney have lately intruded into the U.S.S. preserves — The Centennial and the Duploix, Marvellous to relate, whenever the Centennial arrives anywhere, the U.S.S. boat RiDgarooma arrives also ; as long as the Centennial stops theßiogarooma stops ; when the Centennial departs tbe Ringarooma departs, and always for the same place. These phenomena are invariable ; you may verify them any week in tha shipping column. ID is, I Bhould say, the most remarkable case of maritime synchronism on record. A similarly mysterious bond of uaion exist b between Che Dupleix and tbe U.S.S. Hauroto. In short, eaoh of the Sydney boats is " shadowed" night and day, in port and at sea, by a boat from Dunedin, This kind of thing must tend to grow monotonous one would think ; there have been periods in the world's history when it wonld have grown dangerooß. On some particularly dark night the Centennial— purely by misadventurewould have rammed tbe Ringarooma aud sent her to the bottom ; and by a similar aooidenb would have been broken the sweet companionship of the Dnpleix and Haaroto. Owing to the general) softening of manners, and consequent improvement in the code of maritime ethics, this kind of casualty is out of the question. We shall be permitted, therefore, to watoh the peaceable development of this ocean quadrille, and see how one shipping company can ruin another in a legal, humane, and Christian kind of way — all in the publio interest, of course, and from an unaffected desire to promote low freights and cheap fares. The London correspondent of the Liverpool Post hears a story about one hereditary pension which is very instructive, and will probably be communicated to the House of Commons whenever opportunity arises. Among the 'list of pensions iB a small one standing to the credit of a Scottish peer for the fulfilment of a sinecure office. A member of the House of Commons, bantering tie noble lord on this source of revenue, learned the startling fact that for two generations not a penny had gone into the family coffers. His grandfather, being in need of ready money, sold the pension to a Portsmouth Jew, whose heirs aud assigns draw it to this day. Including polioemen, post offioa offloiala, market men and women, caretakers, hospital nurses, and newspaper writers and printers, it is estimated that fully 100,000 of the inhabitants of London are night workers. "The awkwardest thing in the world," says a cynical neighbor, "is a woman handling a qua, " Don't know about that ; did you never see a man handling a baby 1