NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1013, 29 February 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The keenness of some of the teachers iu the Marlborough district to obtain instruction is shown by the fact that oue ol them who was recently married spent bis honeymoon in attending the summer school for teachers.

The New Zealand Dairyman publishes figures showing that since 1888 (twenty-four years) there has been actually paid to the dairy farmers of New Zealand for butter aud cheese no less than equal to 283 tous of sovereigns.

Statisticians affirm that within another seven or eight years greater New York will have a population of at least a million more than greater Loudon, and Chicago is coming on at a great rate. Greater London has, on 693 square miles, seven aud a quarter million people, compared with six and a half millions of greater New York on 702 square miles. But the population of New York is growing so much faster than that of Loudon that the director oi the American census predicts a speedy ending oi London’s supremacy.

The aunual report of the New York Board of Coroners is a ghastly record. It discloses that of 5,700 sudden deaths reported duriug last year, 3050 were due to natural causes, the remainder having resulted from murders, suicides and accidents. Commenting upon the prevalence of crime in New York and the risk to which people are exposed of meeting with a violent and sudden end, the Coroners declare that the streets of the city are becoming more perilous than a battle-field.

They are complaining iu America, so the story goes, that the style ot forensic eloquence is changing. It is said to be uo longer worth one’s while, so they say, to go down to the courts in the hope ol hearing real oratory. “Case aud Comment,” au American legal paper, points out the difference by recalling the manner ot a certain Robinson of Cleveland, whose addresses to the jury used to attract a crowd iu the old days. Oue of his great triumphs was iu a case where the opposing counsel was defending a notorious miser. “ Who is this man ? Who is he ?” thundered Robinson. “You kuow aud I know that he boils his potatoes in widow’s tears.” This sublime flight of imagination so impressed the jury that Robiusou won his case.