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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1549, 19 September 1912, Page 4

. A noiv; Labour party with a new leader is promised for New South Wales within a year or eighteen months. This was announced on September 11 at a meeting of tho \oung Australia National party by Mr. J. (5. Stevens, secretary of tho lomig Australia Club. Mr. Stevens inlormcd the meeting that one of the ncwlvelected members of the Upper House had recently told him that n new spirit was growing up in the Labour party, and tlierc would soon bo a new party. Of tho marriages celebrated in Australia during 1911 (according to tho Common. «callh Statistician) tho number celebrated by ministers of the Church of Nng. and was 13,011, Methodists 6810, Roman Catholics G712, Presbyterians 5737, Congregationalists 2JOI, and Baptists 137" while, no fewer than 1314, or about 0110Imrtieth of tho total, wero celebrated by civil registrars. Seven brides were married at 11 years of age, and 59 at 15, while (bridegrooms wero married nt the ago of 16 and 31 nt 17. Tho oldest couple married during the year wero a bridegroom of 80 to a bride of 74; 8028 males and 2028 tm ~-erD mnrri(Hl under the age of Si'„ n . 110I 10 '? !l '? 82 malt ' s married comprised 30,095 bachelors, 2301 widowers, and 183 divorced men, while tho corresponding ligures foi females wero 37,351 spinsters 1846 widows, and 285 divorced women. .Marriages of bachelors wero most numerous at nge 24, and of widowers at ago 43. Amongst brides the marriages of spinsters wero most numerous at ago 21, and of widows at age 39.

At a meeting of the committee of tho ivew Zealand Competitions Society held last evening tho secretary (Mr. Jns U.Vkes) reported that the. prospects for the competitions to be bold in November were highly favourable. Agents had been appointed in every town in New Zealand, and circulars bad been issued to all institutions and societies of a musical, literary, or dramatic character, and applications for entry forms were being received daily. Many entries had already been received, somo from as far away as Melbourne (Victoria). It was decided to ask Mr. A. D. Riley to judge the designs sent in for certificate form, entries for which have already closed. Those who wish to secure- the privileges enjoyed by members of the society should lose no time in submitting their names, as the date of the competitions is drawing near. Incidental reference was made by Mr. A. E. Glover yesterday in the House of Representatives to an alleged failure on the part of tho Government to place him upon any of tho sessional committees. "I have only boon put on the Petitions Classification Committee, which I will never attend," remarked Mr. Glover protestingly. He added that he should have been made a member of tho Labour Bills Committee, and that when he went to Auckland he would tell tho people about it, and invite the Prime Minister (0 explain on any public platform why he had been excluded from this committee. A nu:nber of members interjected at this stago to inform Mr. Glover that he was on the Labour Bills Committee. The member for Auckland Central looked surprised, and said that ho hoped ho was, Otherwise he would carry out his announced intention of seeking an explanation from the Prime Minister on tho public platform in Auckland.

In his address before the Sydney Nationalist Association on September 13, Dr. E. N. Morris made a pood point with an illustration to show the truth* of what Herbart called the law of apperception, that is to say, the law that nothing could bo received into the mind unless something akin to it was already there. 'When President Lincoln was assassinated, the murderer cried out, "Sic semper tyrannis," and at the corouial inquiry it was asked whether anything had been said at the fatal moment. No one had heard anything except M'Mamis, the policeman, who was always with the President at a function. This officer stated that he heard tho words, "Sick; send for M'Manus!" With reference to the list of tenderers for corporation contracts, which appeared in Tuesday's Dominion, Mr. H. S. King slates that the amount of his tender should havo read ,£18"0, not .£lBlO as announced. Information has been received in Wellington that the Wai'otomo and Hniikura bto at present unapproachable, owing: to the very bad state of the road between Hangitiki and tho caves.

A big Maori meeting commences to-day at Paranui,. a place about fifleen miles above. Pipinki, on the Wanganui ltiver. It is being held in celebration, of the opening of a new Native meeting house, and several hundreds of Maoris from all parts of tho Wangmuri district are expected to ?J«!"'• Among the visitors will bo the Mehes Picture Expedition, from America, the.members of which anticipate finding excellent material for characteristic kinemalograph pictures.