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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4895, 22 June 1887, Page 4

The legal fraternity (according to the Melbourne Telegraph), or at least a section of (.hem, have not been idle since the Windsor railway accident; but the acumen of certain legal gentlemen seems to have been exercised in a manner that will not gain approval. Several of the doctors have declared that many of the cases they were called upon to attend bore evidence of the influence that had been brought to bear by members of the legal fraternity. Dr Feathemon stated that no less than four of the alleged injured people he found had been waited upon and advised gratuitously ; and not, the doctor said, by pettifogging lawyers, but by the principals of respectable Melbourne firms. Dr bchleaingersaid emphatically that he would decline to attend any case with which he found a lawyer had been tampering. Dr Williams was visited by one of the fraternity, and several other medical gentleman had similar visits. It would certainly appear that the alarming increase in tho list of injured passengers is susceptible of some explanation.

The Parliamentary Library (says a Southern paper) is a magnificent one, and should the building be ever destroyed, and this invaluable collection of books with it, the loss to the colony would be irremediable. The refusal to voto a sufficient sura of money for the protection of ilk> Library is a apecies of economy which will be doplored should the flimsy wooden building Borne day burst into a flame. A penny wise and pound foolish economy has left the Post Office in ruins, and tho same kind of economy bidß fair to leave this magnificent collection of books some day" in cindera. It ia nothing short of a crime to house all tke?e books within the wooden walls of the Parliament buildings. One thing in connection with this library leannot understand. That is, that one section of society in Wellington should bo allowed the use of it, and another section not. The upper ten in Wellington, by what right no one appears able to tell, use the library. Those who do not belong to the upper ten mast pay a subscription at the A'.hemeum, or anywhere else they please, if they have ft taste for reading. Either the Parliamentary Library should be open to all classes or it should bo open to no 1 ne except members.

The London correspondent of the 'Leeds Mercury ' writes: — "It is not impossMo that tho present state of political feeling may lead to a revival of duelling. 'J he Iriah members complain bitterly that there is no way of meeting the libels uttered against them except by holding the libeller personally responsible ; and some of the wilder Orangemen would be only too glad to see a personal encounter between their swashbuckler champions and the Parnellites. I believe that bellicose messages are now passing from one side of the House to the other. If this sort of thing goes on tho House will have to interfere. "