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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8227, 7 June 1895, Page 4

Every pex-son, says a Home paper, does not ■ know that by law paupers and criminals are allowed over four times as much cubic space in which to sleep and breathe as our British sailors. Paupers must have 300 cubic feet, prisoners 390; yet sailors, who have the added miseries of bilge water, paint, turpentine, smoking lamps, and little daylight, are only provided with 72 cubic feet, whilst in an average bedroom on shore a person enjoys 500 cubic feet. It is no wonder then that Dr Collingridge in his half-yearly Eeport of health for the Port of London protests against the treatment of the sailors. Although a Eoyal Commission recommended as a minimum per man 120 ft, the Merchant Shipping Act of last year re-enacted the 72ft limit, so little attention is given by Parliament to the health and interest of Jack Tars. Otago Daily Times, July 25th, 1892, says :—** We have received samples of Gawne and Co.’s locally manufactured Sauce—mild and piquant. The bottles are neatly got up, and the quality of the contents appears to be quite up to the standard of other sauces before the public. As it is a local industiy, it should be encouraged.—(Advt.) The Anglican Bishop of Ballarat and the ladies who were managing a fancy fair came into collision recently. One of the advertised attractions was a skirt dance by three girls about 12 years of age. The bishop intervened; almost at the last moment and the,, announcement was withdrawn. On the following Sunday the bishop censured indirect methods of raising money for church purposes, and adverted to the placing stumbling blocks in the path of the young in such a way that it was held to be a reproach on the ladies. At a subsequent meeting the ladies drew up a letter, which was sent to the bishop, in which, after referring to the awkward position in which they had been placed by his denunciation, they said if they had sinned they regretted it, but requesting the bishop, as their spiritual adviser, to state how they had done wrong. The bishop in his reply disclaimed any intention beyond suggesting a line of future action which would be more in consonance with his idea of the fitness of things. Hander and Son’s Eucalypti Extract.— (Advt.)