"UNREASONABLE."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 22 October 1913, Page 8

"UNREASONABLE."

f" ♦ r ' RESTRICTION OF CAR SPEEDS. ,° (By Telesrr&ph—Prees Association.) Auckland, October 21. v? Mr. Fraser, S.M., dismissed charges „ of driving at- excessive speed brought .f against a number of taxi-cab drivers, (1 who, it was alleged, went along Eden d Terrace at a speed of eighteen miles per l hour when returning to town after tho J. Avondale races. The Magistrate held ,j thati eight miles per hour was an unreasonably low -speed limit unless there t" wero special reasons. From his own knowledge he considered tlio by-law un]j reasonable. e " r ' The Rivals team, to play Oriental tos day, is as follows: —A. A.George, f (i. Kinvig, Burke, T. Crouch, Tyrrell, Greig, R. Darroch, Rev. BartIctt, and Drs. Tolhurst, Pigeon, and 'I M'Evcdy. t- Tho mountaineering club of Baberhnuser, >f in the Harz Mountains, ha? presented a ■f, diploma to Frail von Hanstcm, a 75-year--1 oh'i lady, who recently made hc-i' sixtieth ascent of the loftiest peak of tho range, a p snow-clad crest iOOOit. high. 15 A remarkable spider, known as the ' r "Baboon'' spider, has recently been added P to the collection ul' the Port- Elizabeth Museum. This insect possesses u body as t. largo as a mouec, and is capable Qf killiug i birds .up. to tha swq pf A krk.