NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1024, 1 August 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

‘‘l don’t dislike lawyers personally,” remarked Mr F. Lawry, M.P., in addressing his constituents at Parnell, “ but I want little to do with them professionally. I must agree with those who say that there have been too many lawyers in the House in the past. Laws are made in a manner that provoke disputes. We want laws made simply, so that a child can understand them —without any heretofores, herebys, wherebys, and so on.” (Laughter).

Mr Massey says he is more progressive than the Liberals; he claimed when in Invercargill to be a democrat. His utterances are diplomatic, and will not deny him the right to such a designation ; but what he omits to say will excite the suspicion of the people that he is merely the poseur that all who have studied politics carefully during the past few years know him to be. —Southland News.

At a recent dinner in New York everything was presented weirdly at the table. Tiny sandwiches and salted almonds were served out, the former from operating tables and the latter in bottles bearing the names of the most disagreeable medicines known. The cocktails were handed round in test tubes, and marked ‘‘deadly poison,” while waiters offered the diners “ Prussic acid, sir? Nevadians recommend it in preference to the gallows or ” Arsenic ?it is warranted to kill all pain.” The fish, game, and joint courses were furnished with names of dread diseases. Cordials were served in hypodermic syringes ; and, as a culminating point, cigars were wrapped each in a piece of material strongly resembling antiseptic gauze. The hosts were of the medical fraternity.

Doctoring the sick poor is one of the most important activities of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The Board provides medical attention and medicaments where required. As from today it will make a new arrangement whereby in cases approved by its officers the board will pay half ordinary fees to medical men for attendance on their own patients. In Wellington prescriptions will be made up at the Hospital dispensary. In the suburbs and the country districts various payments for medicines will be made. They range from icd to is gd per Soz bottle, the charge not being based, it seems, on the value of drugs or the volume of the aqua pura, but on the locality.