THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1882. THE EXHIBITION JURORS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2509, 22 April 1882, Page 3

THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1882. THE EXHIBITION JURORS.

Off Monday next the exhibitors will be called, npon to nominate those to whom is lo be entrusted the very onerous duty of deciding upon the awards in the various classes. Some little dissatisfaction appears to exist in the minds of the New Zealand exhibitors at the postponement of the former meeting. These gentlemen do not seem to remember that the British exhibitors—nay, all those who may be called foreign—have had to contend with the delays of steamers and Customs House. In many instances, though plainly addressed to the Exhibition, cases have been carried on to distant ports. Therefore these exhibitors have been compelled to work early and late to get their Courts into anything liko order. They have, therefore, had not the slightest opportunity of becoming acquainted with those gentlemen in the different departments whom they would desire to nominate. The New Zealand exhibitors, on the other hand, have been enabled, having their goods on the spot, to get their work well ahead. Besides, there is the very great advantage of their being locally acquainted with the best men in each department of industry who would befitted to act as jurors. "With all these facts before them, which we think could hardly have been taken into account before, the New Zealand exhibitors will agree that the week's delay asked for was reasonable enough. "We hope that all exhibitors, whether foreign or local, will be careful in the selection of the persons to act as jurors, because on the soundness of the awards depends very greatly the success of this and future exhibitions of a similar character. The gentlemen to be selected should be not only, if possible, experts in the particular branchof iudustry in which they act, but also the best that can be induced to act. If this conditon is observed we have no fear as to the result of the awards A body of jurors thus constituted would possess, we believe, the confidence of all the exhibitors, and thoir decisions would most cheerfully bo acquiesced in by all.

SILENCE THOSE DREADFUL BELLS.

The pressure of public opinion has, we rejoice to say, abated in some degree the caused by the almost indiscriminate nqm? of the Cathedral bolls. But there is still soother even worse than the Cathedral, because more general and widely spread. Wo allude to the adominable nuisance of the auction sale bells. For hours, more particularly on Saturdays, the unfortunate public are dazed bj the clanging cf numbers of dissonant toned bells, wielded by muscular individuals, who seem to take a fiendish delight in witnessing the torture they inflict on their suffering fellow-creatures. Anything that interferes with the com- ' fort and wellbeing of the citizens is & nuisance, and this almost perpetual ringing is one of the most pronounced type. In Dunedin it grew to such proportions that it had to be put down with 3 strong hand, and here it is fast coming to the same pitch. Why we should be tortured in this way wo fail to see. There are plenty of methods less objectionable by which attention can bo called to sales, and we trust that tho authorities, cr whoever has power to deal with this matter, will at once put a stop to what has grown into a positive evil.

RECKLESS DRIVING.

THERE is probably no city in the world whore the drivers of all kinds of vehicles, except tho liceused cabs, are so reckless. That accidents do not happen daily is simply a miracle. Carts dash round street corners at almost racing pace, and each driver appears to try how close ho: can shave the kerb stoue. In Cathedral square, particularly, tho recklessness and utter indifference to the safety of the, lives or limbs of unfortunate pedestriansis most marked. Tho passengers alighting from the tram cars have to floe with great rapidity to tho sidewalk, in many instances warmly escaping! being run down by eorno " greasery jockery " butcher boy driving his horse, at a fast trot through the crowd of peoplo.l Only this morning a young lady had the narrowest escape possible from being

, I tilled. She had alighted from a tram i oar, and was making her way to the kerb when a cart laden with long projecting pieces of timber came along at the usual ' trot. It was no fault of the driver that tbe lady escaped scatheless. This is bnt a sample of what occurs several times during the day. If the public are to be compelled to alight in the centre of a crowded thoroughfare the police should be enabled to compel drivers I of vehioles to go at a more moderate pace when passing a tram discharging passengers. At present it is positively dangerous for ladies and children. Indeed the male sex have sometimes a very rough time of it. Carts and hansoms crowd on both sides of the cars, and one has hardly escaped the hoofs of the fast trotter of the butcher boy when considerable nerve and coolness is required to run the gauntlet of the speedy hansom. It must bo patent to every one that some regulation is urgently required to put a atop to the dangerous practice of fast driving in the part of the city referrod to. We hope that the City Council or the by-laws committee will bear this in mind. It was said in Loudon on one occasion, with reference we believe to the removal of Smithfield market, that nothing would be done by the corporation till an alderman had been killod We can ill spare any of ours; they are all too useful. Still there is a considerable doubt whether, if the offering up as a sacrifice of one of these august personages had the effect of preserving the lives of a dozen or two of citizens, the experiment would not be worth a trial. It would be an extreme measure, certainly, but still one that would do much good to secure an alteration of the present state of things.