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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 266, 16 November 1878, Page 2

The Mosgiel Wollen Factory has declared a ten per cent dividend, and carried forward JMQO. Its profits for the year wefe £5541. .The titlmati body lias forty milea of drain pipe'. That is, the sweating tubes or perspiring ptires of the skin are 3500 to the square inch, over a surface of 1700 square inches. The pores or drain tiles of tho body, averaging one fbiitth of an inch long, would majte aii aggregate; allowing i7OO square inches of surface as the area of the skin, or 201,166 feet of drain. We notice that it was mentioned by Mr F. de C Malet in the Synod at Christchurch, that the amount available for the income of the Primate of New Zealand, which is derived from the Bishopric estate, £1236 I3s 7d It ia rather hard, says " Atticus " iu the Leader, of jurors who cannot come to a decision on the merits of a case they have to try to be not only locked up all night, but to be told — as some gentlemen were a few days ago —the next morning by the Judge that he is surprised they could not arrive at a verdict, and that in consequence of j uries being unable to agree there have been many miscarriages of justice of late. Locking juries up is at best but a barbarous plan for endeavoring to secure unanimity. The Judges themselves disagree, and give their reasons for doing so at full length, but no one thinks of locking them up. The Press disagree, the public disagree, members of Parliament, the two Houses of Legislatnre, the clergy of all 'denominations, and to come home to domestic life, every married couple disagree, without fear of being locked up all night and lectured in the morning. We have very often seen criminals who richly deserve punishment, but who escape with greater impunity than the twelve unfortunate men whose only crime was that they were jurors who couldn't see thiDgs with the same eyes as the learned Judge.