(BY FRANK MORTON.)

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 4 September 1908, Page 2

(BY FRANK MORTON.)

Beautiful weather, no wind to speakof, rents making no appreciable ad vance 3inco last week—everybody glad, despite the tightness of monej\ Thero is encouraging rumour in the air. The Government, for instancy is determined to.settle the Arbitration trouble before the House rises. A meeting of demo- ' crats in Dunedin has declined to curse Mr Justice Sim, although a prominent . ass desired it. Baalam reproving the ass, history reversed. Even the police ■ magistrates seem to be doing their tiresome work without necessary fuss. Tm'mng to serious topics," I note that the played-out farce of the bakers' strike ' in Wellington still fizzles weakly on to its absurd conclusion. The "strikers have been prosecuted, and the Arbitration Court has found that the Union and not tho men, caused the strike. : Wherefore, the men arc innocent of wrong, and the Union had better look out. "The Labour Department has lost ■no time in taking steps to deal with the new aspect of the case." In cer- ; tain weeks we shall hear some more, i Probably that the Union is not to blamo, but the climate. It's quite delightful. . Let me go back a moment to remark i in simplo justice, that we have in Well- ' ington. a magistrate who makes com- i meuts that no sane soul on earth can object to. Dr McAithur. is sometimes : quaint, and sometimes with great deliberation humorous ; but he presents none of tho abhorred stigmata of the • pns; and the false prophet. He is a ; man, of sound humanity and unfailing shrewdness; and although he is a police magistrate,, he is an instinctive cham- ! pion of the bottom dog. The accused ; person that gets no chance in the doctor s Court doesn't deserve any.