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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 46, 22 February 1872, Page 4

At the breaking up ofthe Christmas holidays :of Mr. Pennal's academy at Auckland, a very handsomely bound Biblewas awarded to William Turner for reciting 6717 verses of the New Testament ! -TiGHT-LACiNG.---The Lancet says our old friend tight-lacing has again made his appearance. Beaten back for a time, probably more by fashion than the spread of knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled apparently for a better spring • forhis victims aire as numerous and as pitiable as even The folly iB one which was formerly to be found only . in the drawing-room, but now it also fills the streets. It is lamentable to observe at every turn, a woman— -youug or old — who moves forward in a stooping position, unable even to hold' herself upright in consequence of the constraint upon the muscles of the back. If the evils of tightlacing were confined to the distortive appearance which: it -never . fails to produce, we might regret indeed to see the female form divine so deffaced j but it would scarcely be in our ipfovirice to comment; on it. But, as , medical 'bractitWiierß^ : we Jf*js^.().^')*te'^-^ts ©very day, in" the ~|raih of ncr yousV anti t symptoms by which it. is, constantly indicated. •_!.;' : ACTIONS: foi* breach uOfjipi'omise, says a contemporary, are becoming common, an 4

one of the funniest we have met with for some time is quite recent. A girl having sued her lover for breach of promise, laid her damages down as follows :— -Nine shillings per week for "sitting up," with costs of lights and fuel added io. We may laugh as much as we pleasß at this, but the girl is a sensible damsel, and we hope that she got a verdict. Bringing actions for damage of the feelings and injury to the heart, and for- the value of pangs and delicate disappointments, is a great deal more mercenary than asking for remuneration for loss of time and even of fires and lights.