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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 171, 10 April 1903, Page 4

Amusing incidents occasionally occur inside a polling booth: On Thursday last at New Plymouth a lady went to vote at the principal booth, and having ieceived her paper was shown into one of the curtained compartments. After an interval of half an hour, more or less, one of the officials, thinking she must be in some difficulty, went to enquire if he could help her. To his astonishment the lady met him with the somewhat indignant remark that "it was about time he came to get her out."" The Judicature Bill to be introduced next session of Parliament by the Government will provide that no future appointment to the Supreme Court Bench shall be made of any person . over fifty five years of age. Retirement will be compulsory at seventv. Provision will also be made that any of the present Judges over seventy who have not completed fifteen years of -erviee may tetiie on half salary. A Western Queensland station manager was asked by the owners to report as to how the station had come out of the drought ordeal. Accordinoly, he made up a parcel of sundries-—a piece of hide containing the station brand, three hoofs, a green-hide girth, a .broken brictle, a pair of horns, the skin of a cattle dog, and a rotten water bag. This he forwarded with the addendum : "Gentlemen, these aie the assets." Years back, up on the Queensland border, an old shepherd was found dead in a gully. Two neighbouring squatter Jaypees. for whom he had recently worked, held a magisterial inquiry, and found a verdict of death by Providential visitation. Two cheques for L 52 in all were found on the corpse, and each cheque was sign&d by one of the gentlemen who held the inquest. After consultation they decided thsrt it would be wrong to interfere -with the proverty of the dead, so corpse and cheques were buried in the one grave. It was a reverent act, and those'squatters are L 52 ahead to this dWv. ; '_ SPRAINS are often more serious then broken bones on account of not bein°properly treated Apply Chamberlains Fam Balm freely as soon as the iniurv is received and it will quickly restore the parts to a healthy condition A, Manoy