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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 5

Jainoe Markat. of Sombor (Hungary), summoned the Protestant clergyman who married him for having given *t,lugubrious tone to the proceedings. Ho brought witnesses to prove that the officiant had shed tears at different parts of the rite. The clergyman defended himself by saying that ho had himself been a' suitor for l tlie bride, and that he had requested Ja. nos to find another celebrant. The court found for the defendant, and censured Janos for his inhuman conduct.

A suggestion that the shipping companies interested should be approached with the object of permitting thdir pas.sengor steamer to extend their stay- at Honolulu to- 30 hours was made by . two" immigration officials,, who' were abosird the Marama at Auckland. Mr i J Qrcy Hunter, of New South Wales, and Mr W. H. Hoogs, of Hawaii, pointed out, in the course of a conversation with i» "Herald" reporter that Honolulu was an ideal holiday resort, and that New Zealand visitors after one trip . there would be rather anxious to return. They maintained that if better opportunities were given oversea visitors to call at Honolulu. New Zealand' was bound to benefit, for there would be the double attraction. Mr Hunter 6aid that lie was sure the tourist traffic would increaso at least 20 per cent., and the transpacific tourist trade as a whole be strengthened.

"There are two things at which I never fail to laugh," said the lecturer in charge of the agricultural department at the Sydney Technical College, Mr J. Nangle, at the Technical Conference. "Oho is a barrister's wig, and tho other a bricklayers hammer. Both are absolutely out of date and useless. The hammer of tho bricklayer was. perhaps, of some ueo in the days of s oft hand-made bricks, but in the modern hard dry-pressed brick it is quite useless. Yet the bricklayer tries to make it useful, and will continuo to try until someone invents and persuades him to use a moro useful kind. Some of our tools are so ill-fitted for their purposes that it requires years of training before a man can become skilful with them. If the principle were recognised that more brainworkatid not necessarily so much manipulative skill would result in as good and'a. fipcedi»r a ?reat manv of t : hspe tools' would be replaced by better •' *