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Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1774, 7 June 1895, Page 4

. Every person, says a Home paper, does not know that by Jaw. paupers and criminals are allowed over four times as much cubic^ space in ' winch to sleep and breathe as our British sailors. ; Paupers must have 300 cubic feet; prisoners 3so ,\ 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 ah I average bedrooin oh sliore a person) enjoys 500 cubic feet. It is no wonder, then that Dr Collingridge in his lialf-yearly: Report of .health for the Port of " London , protests .. against the treatment, of the' sailors. "Although a ■Royal Commission recommended as a minimum' per man 120ft, tlje 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.;.,. •..;•.. ' 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 The bishop intervened almost at the last moment and the announcement was withdrawn.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 liisdeimuciation r _.they. said if they liad sinned tliey 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 moreih consonance, with hig idea of the •fitness of tilings. The offences for which Jabez Balfour was extradited from the Argentine, according to the Law Journals are three in number, to wit — (1) That when director of a company he conspired with others to obtain, ; and did obtain, by fraud £20.000 between January 12th and March 18th, 1886 ; (2) felony on quitting Engiland, taking £400 with' him, within four months of his bankruptcy; (3) a series of offences against' sections of the Larceny Act, 1861, with respect to entries in the books and accounts of the companies with which he was concerned. These may hot represent the sum-to ta] of Balfour's supposed delinquencies, but they are the offences on which the surrender by Argentina was granted, and th'e Extradition Act in operation between "fch'e'two countries prohibits the trial of a prisoner for any other offences than those for which lie is actually surrendered. ' Doctor : . ." Well, my fine. little fellow, I was sure that the pills I left would cure you. How did you take them, in water or in cake ?" Boy : " I used them in my popgun." ,