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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 194, 11 May 1908, Page 8

" The only reason wo are before the Board to-day," said Mr. D. Jones at tho sitting'of tho Conciliation Board, when summing up on behalf of the dairymen cited in the farm labourers' dispute, " is that wo have a law stupid enough to allow a few men not interested in an'industry to agitato for changed conditions aifecting that industry," reports tho Christchurcli "Press." " That seems to mo one of the scandalous things in connection with our law that it should permit an industry, so important to this country to bo undermined without tho representatives of that industry being even asked for their opinions." @ In tho best days of legal wit it was characterised by a total disregard for tho feelings of litigants and witnesses. That kind of legal luimour is certainly dead, and if tho typo that has succeeded it is often feeblo, and sometimes childish, it makes up in humaneness what it lacks in point.—" Court Journal." Bacteriology is all very well, and tho now science has proved most useful to humanity, but people are now beginning lo see microbe.": overywnere. If this continues the unfortunate human being of twenty yoat's hcnco will have to shut lumsolf up in a • refrigerator or live among disinfectants.—" Gazota llcdica," Barcelona..