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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 61

At th© annual meeting of the Linotype and Machinery, Ltd., held in London a few weeks ago, the chairman announced that, though the past year was “admittedly the worst ever experienced in the history of the printing industry, 5 -’ the net profits exceeded Li 50,000. Judge Addison, of the English County Court Bench, was recently called upon to adjudicate upon a civil action, the hearing of which involved coumderatiun of a mass of technicalities concerning motors. His Honor confessed himsc-h puzzled by the alarming intricacies of the internal economy of a- motor. It was the first tune lie had been puzzled by a case. He consequently appointed an export to sit with him. The. expert was necessary, because of Jus (the Judge’s) want of slull, and if Judges only had the cou>-;>g© to appoint them in similar cases, an on or men.-, amount of time and contradiction would be saved. The general secretary of the Loudon Wesleyan Mission stated at a meeting last month that there were t house milt pon thousands of people in London who had never seen the U.ble, ami never heard a prayer, and who wo.e truly and terribly heathens as any on i deface of God’s earth. They p ' without any more knowledge oi L'brkvi: than if they lived in the m o. A..