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New Zealand Mail, Issue 896, 3 May 1889, Page 24

A permanent library composed solely of books written by women is to be established in Paris. Bankruptcy Court.—The next sitting of the Bankruptcy ( Court will bo held on Thursday, June 6th. Resident Magistrate’s Court. —At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Messrs R. C. Shearman, W. Seed, and J. Saunders, Justices, the two lads, John Chisholm and James McGonagle, who were arrested on Wednesday afternoon by Con. stable Carroll on a charge of having stolen two : books valued at 3s, the property of F. Whittaker, were brought up. Both the lads pleaded guilty, and the Bench ordered them to receive six strokes with a birch rod. The newest thing in New York city is a shop where men and women may have their shoes mended while they wait. Customers see the latest shoe-making machinery in the window, and behind the machines a row of lasts at which men prepare the work for the machines. A woman goes in, has her shoes taken off, put on the lasts, trimmed of all tatters and shreds, fitted with new heels and soles, put into a sewing or nailing machine aud made as good as new almost half as quickly as it has taken to write these words. Patching is the only work that is done iu the old-fashioned way. Entire new shoes are made to order by the pair in two hours. WANTED, the Public to Know that orders for Job Printing are received at tha new off res -ti the New Zealand Times and Mail, corner of Earn! f on quayand Waring. Taylor street