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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 5

OVERHEARD IN. BAILWAT CAJJ. RIAGE AT PALMERSTON. Mrs. C.—"My Dear I I had such a loto- ' Iy Afternoon Tea at ' -Dnstin'a', in Tha Square. It waa worth going up tows : for." 'Mr. C. (very cross: "You migttt, 'have brought somo for me; but, nerol mind, well both go to 'DustinV ia , W snßanui."—Advt. .

Mr. A. D. D, Crawford, who recently resigned - the editorship • of tho "West Coast Times," has deoided to ootumenoe practice as a barrister and solicitor al: Ilokitika, says a -West Coast exchange. . ' Some .striking ; facts' are'set, forth, it'. the annual report ,of the London Couutj Council Publio. Heath Committee. The number ■; of marriages iii -the County of London last year, , it appears., was tho lowest per; 1000 of the population ■ on: record. The number was 38,209, and ■ tha rate 15.9 per 1000, which compared with 17 . per .1000 : in the previous, year. ': The;: birth-rate continues to fall. For 1908 it stood-at 25.2 per 1000, compared with-25.6 •: of 1907 arid 28.3 of 1904. The.'death-rate last year was 18.8 per 1000 of the pope, lation. Compared with. 19.2 in the ponod of 1891-1900, the London . County Council medical officer cf health computes that the decrease represents a saving of 26,205 lives, which ho also calculates is a gain l to tho community of 1,006,770 years* of "life capital." Deaths of infants under; ono year old were in ' the proportion ai 113 per 1000 of births, compared with 138; por 1000 during : the period-1203-7. - The German mile is more than ■ fa® times as long as the English.' Mrs. Bramwell Booth, who reoantly addressed tho prisoners' in Porth Prison, is the. first woman officor of the Salvation Array who has been allowed ta address prisoners in gaol. • - Jones:' That young man who plays ths corn«t is ill. Green: Do you think ha will recover ? Jones: I am afraid not ' The doctor who la attending hian liws nest door, 1 ■ ,