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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 419, 19 May 1902, Page 2

Imagine yourself doing a country tour on your bike when it suddenly, comes to grief at some far away place from town. But you have provided against exigencies of this kind. You seek the nearest post, and fix your wireless telegraph apparatus to it, i click away at the telegraph key and* a i message reaches your home in no time i or any other “ base” you may have arranged to communicate with. There , is no need dickering for the loan of a . settler’s horse to get into town with,\ , there is no need worrying for fear the folks at home worry. From the “base , relief is sent and the delay 'is comparatively brief. Such is Mr Marconi’s method of action in automofiiie and bicycle breakdowns. From any point within a radius of thirty miles or so he can send home a message to keep his dinner hot. He told the members of the "New York Club all about it, and he has not the least doubt but that it will workj While our local law administrators are not exactly regarded as being giQ ted with the wisdom of Solomon in the dispensing of justice, their conception of the spirit of tbe law is it least tolerable compared with tha “nous” of others in more distant parts,who are charged with the duty of enforcing the law. A judge of the High Court recently determined that a bicycle is legally “a vehicle-hung on springs,” -and now the Kent County Council has notified that perambulators and children’s go-carts are carriages within the meaning of the by-law relating to the carrying of lights at ' night. The mothers and nursemaids of Kent are solemnly warned that in future every perambulator, go-cart, or vehicle of a like nature must be provided with a lamp “properly trimmed, lighted and attached,” whenever it is taken out “between one hour after sunset and one hour after sunrise, and the police of the county have received instructions to put the by-law in force the penalty for any breach of the bylaw being a fine not exceeding 40s. Probably the Kent authorities will, when rebuked for their seemingly rediculous ruling plead extenuating circumstances by saying that they are looking after the welfare of the children, and that their regulation will have the eject (tiscQuraerir»'* **- -