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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 193, 9 September 1889, Page 3

*- Whilst not offering any explanation of the following Btory (says a contemporary) we oan vouob for its absolute accuracy: — Last Satmday night Mrs Saund*..?, of Marton, dreamt tbat sbe saw her .on, who was working in the bueh in the Paraekaretu distriot, up a tree, bleeding from a wound, and not able to get down. She was greatly troubled about h»r dream and r.latei it to ber husband, who only ch_2ad hei: on hearing ib. Strange to Bay, however, on Sunday her eon came home with one of his handß bonnd up, and he then stated tbe c.u.e of this. On Saturday he was up a tree cutting some branches when ha accidentally tumbled to the ground, taking his cxc with bim. The axe fell on one of bia hands, inflicting an ugly gaßh between the thumb and the index finger, la fact, the actual cucumstances were almost exactly the came as bis mother had cec-n in her dream. The latest development of the labor qus_<« tion comes of course from the United States, A syndicate of newspapers published in the Western States made an offer to tho Trades' Aesembly of Chicago to send fifty pioked workmen to the Paris Exhibition and to pay all necessary expenses, Tbe ofrjeot of ths newspapers waa that the workmen Bhould examine and report upon the various meohanical arts from the standpoint of working men, and examine and explain the methods in whioh foreign manufactures excel Amerioan manufactures in cheapness, and perfeotion of produot, The Trades' Assembly refused the offer on the ground that they do not approve of increasing the productive power of workers, as that tends to their direct impoverishment; that the objeot of the Assembly is to secure a more equable division among tbe workers of the enormous wealth whioh they daily create. For this purpose they seek by all lawful means tbe abolition of child labor, compulsory education, equalisation of woman's pay witb that of man's; the proteotion of the health and lives of workers, and the reduotion of labor to eight hours a day. They Bay that as they have never heard of a newspaper syndicate organised to aid them in that laudable aim, it is too great a strain upon their credulity to believe that this one is prompted by philanthropic motives. They suggested that tbe newspapers should pay tbe expenses of a delegation to attend the sittings of the Working Men's Congress in Paris, but the newspaper proprietors didn't quite see it.

1 Arrangements have been made by which a yatem of examination for the New Zealand polics will be instituted and held for the firet time in January, 1890, at the bead quarters of eaoh polioe distriot. The examination will be divided into two parts —junior and senior. A pass in thn former will render a m.n pJi-ible as a fir.t class constable; aod the latter to the rank of sergeait. This system -as been instituted for the purpose of presenting inferior men ft om reaching important )osicion_, whether by seniority or iutcress, cQd of raising the geaeral .ffioi.noy of the -en by stimulating them to read up the heory of police work and the criminal tatate law of the oolony, as the only pos*ibl. letbod of attaiaiag to a responsible poaitioe. An Auckland man came to go through the ankrnptoy Court in a curious way. For tie sb oigh cen months he had btea poundat Moun*i Eden, and in that capacity ) sold au unclaimed horse, a little over _ ar ago for £4 14s. £2 10s of this was tamed for poundage feeß and charges-, ->d the balance waa paid over to tho owner of tho hora., when he olaimed it seven weeks afier the sale. The owner then sued him for wrongful sale, and got judgment for £20 and costs, in all _S2_ 15s in October last. About Christmas he put in an execution, and took away everything belonging to him. About a month ago he got an order of the Court for the bankrupt to pay 10s a month dating from October, and to pay the arrears, amounting to £2 15s, within a month, or to go to prison for fourteen days. He was obliged to raise money to file in consequence. A suit has been commenced in Melbourne by Mr Edwin Addy, of Sydney, against the Foreign and Oolonial Exchange Bank of Australasia. Informant sues for penalties under the Banking and Currency Statute amounting to £2280 on aooount of the oompany having failed in its advertisements to publiah the amount of its paid-ap as well as its authorised capital. The penalty in such cases is £10 for every advertisement. The oompany applied to have the plain tiff compelled to give seoutity for costs, but Mr Justice Kerferd refused the applioation. In a pleasant article in the new number of the National Review Mr Radcliffe Cooke, ■^•P-j gives the following account of a visit of some girls under his escort to the House of Commons :— I know of old what eaoh one will say, " Oh, how small it is 1 And is this really the House of Commons ? Is that Mr Gladstone?" "No," I interpose: •* Mr Gladstone is not here to-night ,* that is Mr W. H. Smith, the leader of the House." " Oh, indeed 1 Where does Mr Gladstone sit? Thank you so mnoh." Candor compels me to admit, mnoh as I distrust this statesmah, that Mr Gladstone is the only member invariably inquired after. I have endeavored to excite interest in other politicians with small success. "That tall man," I have said, is Mr Raikes, the Postmaster-General" —no display of emotion. *' That elderly gentleman, with white hair and beard," I have continued, is Mr Childers" — no sign. *• And that youngish man in the corner seat, feeling for his moustache," I have sometimes added, "is Lord Randolph Ohurehill" —slight shiver. But when I have been ablo to say " There, that is Mr Gladstone ; that old gentleman looking this way, with his hand to his ear, listening so attentively to the member addressing the House, who is Mr Timothy Healy, of whom you may have heard," the beautiful being I inform at once brightens up, and exclaims " Is it really 1 How nice J Thank you so much."