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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1910, Page 3

Mr Villi"!; Liang Hwang, who leeti 1 rev, iii the (Virturv Hall to-night, arrived in Levin by the Xapi,er express this 1110111 int>;. and is the guest isf M.r and Mrs I'eter Stewart. At this evening's lecture there will he nn charge fur admission- and no colleeit'ion.

The heavy rain of the last few ;! iy-: taa.s en used ;i ji miiljtm- of land >i!i ! es in Wellington' .and suburbs, and the ov-erflmving of .storm waiter drains rt>sulte;l in miniature flcods in tho low-lying districts. Tram traffic \v:is interfered with at island May, Brooklyn and Karori. All skipping was more or less hampered in working at Wellington h.v continuous rain yesterday. Mary Ann Hodson, wife r>f Thiomais ETt; labourer, of Blenheim, was feund dead ,in a wood 'box at the ir.y of the dwelling. Death was e-.iiHrntly diit* to suffocation. The. body l>: ill 1 no marks of violence. .Mr .Vot'tan: 1 , Government Oroh'aru fi'spector, is on the wanpa.tli, ani'.l had a number of orchardists in court at Mnsterlton last week. One was fined 20s and conts ; others who •uvtl Cihey had cut dmvn all their t.rnes 'aifter receiving notice were fined 7s a,ml costs.

Sir Henry Lucy, writing to the Sydney iMoruiiig Herald on .M.a.v Otli, says:---It is characteristic of t>!i( '•'hit'Csnian whom it is still difficult to allude to as Lord Gla-.Tsnuie thint, (Mi bring appoiiiited to the Governwrdiij) of South Al'riea, with its bilingual population, he straightway applied himself to loanring Dutcli. There is in this incident >a trace of hereditary that would have, pleased Sir Kranois Galton-. When making his historical trip to the opening of tha Kiel Oanal, Mr Gladstone bethought him that .at least two davs would h? spent in Denmark. He ac ordingly, being in his 80th year, down to learn the Danish language, Kiicce-ediing Ito an extent of wil'iich he pardonably proud. Fellow-passengers pacing the main deck of the Tantailen Castle, on to which his state cabin i/pened, cangbll glimpses of lii'm witn >a Banish boo.lc in Ins hand, a dictionary ait liis ell;iow. If he ihad luit- been disti-"-guisihed in other M'ay.s, Air Gladstone wouhl have been notable as ,a linguist. 1 never liaard. tha't lie i\ - a. r : acquainted -with German. But ef|iiall-y with his motheiMtongue he was .at home in La-tin, Greek, FroiKib. and, Italian. Probably in his wildest dreams he never pictured liis favourite son Herbert as a Viscount- Gov.ernor-Geueral of 'South Africa studiously mastering the Dutch tongue.

In responding to the toast- "Tliie Parliamient of .New Zealand," iat the NeW Plymouth-Fire Brigade dinner, the Hon. O. Samuel, M.L.C., detailed an incident that showed the the necessity for a revising tdnamber such .as the Leglislative Council (says the Herald). At the la,t/ter end ol last session, and ini tin* eai'ly hours of the morning, said (Mr Saaiiue.l, an innocent looking I'mblic Works Bill was 'being put .through Mie Lower House, 'when a 'elauso was, inserted at the instance of a private member. The. Bill was read a third time and .passed, and, sent on to the Leglislative Council to be put through hurriedly. But the Council found till at in the clause finetitioncd Itb-e, word "su'bdivide" bad been turned into "sell" so that the <dau.se as it stood prohibited the selling of property abutting on a street c/f a widlt.h less ithaii (SG. feet. If there had been no second. Chamber to -detect this error the .Bill would have become laiw, and' ninety-nine people out- of .a hundred wrtu.lci have found themselves unable to sell tilieii property unless the Government tonic the undignified course of ignoring its own law.