CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9773, 21 March 1895, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

A correspondent writes in reference to premature burial. He states that he has read that if the hand of the supposed dead person is held up before a strong light, the fingers, if really dead, will appear perfectly opaque, but if life is not extinct there will appear all round the fingers a pinky hua, showing that the blood is still alive.

N.Z." continues the controversy as to Saturday shop closing. Replyingtp*'Common Sense." he says:—" Supposing all who are engaged in the transporting of passengers hither and thither, were to meet together and decide that as they were ' a portion of the public' they would in future carry out their own convenience and taste in their work rather than that of the remain* ing portion of the public,' what would then be the consequence ? Why, a standstill condition would ensue, and which would be at once both absurd and ludicrous. So, therefore, for ehop employee? to wish to set aside the public convenience for that of their own is in degree also absurd, as well as impossible without causing considerable damage to trade, and thereby to themselves also. In the light, therefore, of trade and of the public convenience, this Saturday shop-closing is* a gross mistake, inasmuch as Friday nightas previously shown— never prove itself to be anything else bub a very partial substitute. Looked at in the light of public amusement and sports, of course Saturday may be regarded as. the right; day ; bat a people anywhere who place pleasure-taking before, the ? call of duty and business will never prosper, bub certainly come bo poverty ; for as such is with an individual, so will it be with a nation.""/- . . , „ •'. -">. ,