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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2369, 9 December 1908, Page 3

It is probable that, /as a result of proposals (brought forward in Wellington and Chrisohurch) to send scientific expeditions to the Chatham Islands, attempts will be made to obtain remaining specimens of 'Moriori tree carvings on the islands. These carvings represent the crude artistic efforts of the Moriori race, which is now extinct. The carvings have been cut into tree trunks. They are in the shape of human beings, as the art has not been practised for mbn.y years, and they have a high ethnological value. .Mr E. It. Waite, curator of the Canterbury Museum, brought the matter before the Board of Governors of Canterbury College some timo .ago.. 'He was asked to secure photographs of the carvings, but as there are no photographers on the islands be has not been able to do }his. If the Canterbury Philosophical Institute is successful in sending an expedition to tho Chathams soon, it may secure some of the specimens. It is probable that the Council of the Institute will ask tho Board of Governors to give it some financial assistance in its efforts in this direction, Judge Docker, of Sydney, was recently confronted with an interesting problem in the District Court, at Sydney, when he bad to assess the damages that could fairly be claimed by a young married woman who had had two teeth smashed by a dentist to whom she went to have a tooth extracted. It appears that the victim of this accident, who was described by her counsel as a handsome woman, has had a' perfect set of teeth spoiled, and has to this extent been disfigured for life. His Honor held the dentist liable, inasmuch as he had not taken proper precautions to prevent the patient Horn throwing, up her hands, and so moving the forceps. Even if gold fillings were put into the teeth the plaintiff, he pointed out, would be disfigured. It might be said that, being a married woman, her appearance was not of so much consequence as if she were-unmar-ried, or that the results of the accident would not prove so serious as if she were moving in high circles as a professional beauty. > But in (any case it was .a serious injury to a,.goodlooking woman to he disfigured for life; and, further, the plaintiff would not now get such good natural use of her teeth as if tho injury had not taken place. He gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £SO. Damages had been laid at