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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10410, 7 April 1897, Page 5

The agent of the Union Steamship Company at Suva has supplied the Fiji Times with a return of the expenditure of the company's service for last year at Suva and Levuka. The total amount is about £14,000, of which' £3500 is for labour employed in handling the cargo in those waters. A correspondent calls attention to the dangerous practice indulged in by boys of walking' over the bends or bays of the Cemetery Bridge, at the risk of making a nice little drop of 80 to 90 feet to the bdttom, with the usual coroner's inquest and verdict that '! nobody Was to blame." He thinks that preventive measures could be easily taken. Again, he points out that there is another little trap in Wellesleystreet, at the Free Public Library, The children from the WeUesley-street public school play upon the two low parapets, and take the chance, if they fall into the recess, of- dropping eight or nine feet on 'to the etoiie-tupi,' to the risk of loss of life or limb. : ■ ' :'k: 5