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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5084, 21 September 1891, Page 4

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• The Bulletin's opinion of lawyers is ■worth reading. It says : —lt is freely admitted by three-fourths of the nation that the lawer is a necessary evil; the Bulletin, on the [other hand, admits the evil and absolutely denies the necessity. Or, if ht; is necessary, it is merely because he makes his own necessity He is an animal that travels in a circle, aiul he is essential on account of his existence : if he did not exist he would not be essential. In other words he lives to fill a certain purpose, and then fills it. He is the sole cause of himself, and he is also the effect of his own cause. The business of his life is to dig a hole, and then till it up again, and to charge both for the digging and the tilling: he also creates the original necessity for the hole, and charges for that likewise. Therefore, if lie is necessary he is necessary only to himself, and if he supplies a long-felt want it is his own want, and is only felt by himself. And by-aiul-by the nation will realise that the man who wants himself, but who is wanted by nobody else, has no right to charge the public for supplying himself, any more than the man who is hungry should charge for being hungry, and then charge for eating, and finally send in a third ponderous bill for not feeling hungry after he has finished eating. It is rumored that the wife of a wellknown Paluierston gentleman has left her husband and gone to Nelson as a Seventh Day Advcntist missionary, because he would not keep the Sabbath on Saturday. A sportive young colfc has caused great havoc amongst a {lock of sheep in the Rongitikei district. The whole of the lambs, with but few exceptions, were kicked to death.

The Legislative Council of South Australia has inserted a clause iu the Education Bill making Bible reading in schools compulsory. A mob of horses was being driven to Port Melbourne to be shipped recently, when one took fright and the rest started towards Melbourne. Several fell in Flinders - street, others walloping over them. Two died almost instantly of their injuries. The remainder rushed towards Richmond. One was injured by a fall, one dropped dead on the road, and another was killed in Richmond. It was asserted from the Government benches that the Government had only one real supporter in the Legislative Council. " That's riaht," said some one on the other side, "one-party-one-man."