New Insolvents.

Otago Witness, Issue 1582, 18 March 1882, Page 24

New Insolvents.

The following declarations of insolvency have been filed during the week :—

Robert Moore, of C*voraham, labourer.— Dobtß, £157 6s Sd ; assets, £15. John Cowan Docherty, of Pftlmerston, butcher. - Debts, £201 0 a Cd ; assets, £185.

An Imperial Commission late y appointed at St. Petersburg to consider the question of drunkenness, has recommended the closing of a large number of liquor shops throughout the Empire. But the recommendation will not be acted on, because of the serious loss of revenue it would entail.

At the call of a Baptist clergyman all the ministers in Accrington, England, including Roman Catholic priests, will meet in conference to consider how the question of non-attendance of the masses of the district at public worship shall be dealt with. The Russian journals publish details of the new projected law relative to the employment of children in manufactories throughout the empire. The minimum age is fixed at 12 years, but children already employed in such establishments are excepted from the benefits of this regulation. Up to 18 years of age, the day's labour is not to exceed 12 hours, inclusive of two hours devoted to rest and meals. Night work is absolutely forbidden. A Roumanian mechanic recently submitted to the Chamber at Bucharest a plan for a submarine vessel, and a committee appointed to examine it are so satisfied with its merits that

the Government has been authorised to meet the expense of construction. It is a vesael designed to run under water for 12 hours without renewal of air,