AUCKLAND SPECIAL,
WELCOMING ROYAL VISITORS.
By Telegraph—Per Press Association, Auckland, lost night,
The Hon, Jas. Carroll, Native Minister, is in communication with the various tribes, inviting each to send a few picked men to proceed to Rotorua to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on their arrival there. The gathering will probably be one of the largest on record. OUR REPRESENTATIVE NOT TO * GO TO AUSTRALIA.
In the event of a Native Contingent being sent to Australia to take part in the ceremony connected with tho opening of the Federal Parliament, the Hon. James Carroll will not accompany it. Official etiquette, as well as Maori custom, prescribes that he shall remain in the colony in order to receive the Royal visitors on Maori soil. LUXURIOUS RAILWAY CARS.
Each of the railway cars to be used by the Duke and Duchess of York is to be fitted up in an elaborate manner, but in such a way as to enable the fittings to be readily removed when it is required again for ordinary passenger traffic. All the carriages are to be provided with a gasheating apparatus.
COURT BIBLE. The grave risks which witnesses in our courts of law run every time they kiss the Court Bible had a very pointed illustration in the Supreme Court this morning. A little girl who was suffering from a most serious contagious disease, alleged to be the result of an assault committed upon her, was sworn upon tho Court Bible, one of those used for tho swearing of witnesses and jurors. A doctor who was in court drew the attention of tho Registrar to this, but the child had already kissed the book. Mr Tolo, in his opening address, had indicated the nature of the disease.
THE ONLY REMEDY. Apart from this particular case, the promiscuous swearing in of witnesses and jurors on well-used Bibles which have been kissed by hundreds of lips is a practice fraught with considerable risk to health. Probably the only remedy will be for all jurors and witnesses to bring their own testaments with them.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 58, 9 March 1901, Page 2
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346AUCKLAND SPECIAL, Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 58, 9 March 1901, Page 2
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