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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 996, 8 November 1881, Page 2

The Melbourne correspondent of the S. M. Herald, last week, writes thus of larrikinism in the Victorian capital:— Young savages break into a public-house, beat' the landlord, destroy his property, insult his wife, consume his liquor, and stone the police sent in pursuit of them. And we are quite helpless in the face of these filthy riots, for the police know it is of little use interfering ; the magistrates only fine the scoundrels in nominal sums, or admonish them to be good boys for the future, and hence the larrikin is absolute master of the situation. Hawks, as we know, do not pick out hawks’ eyes ; and as the bulk of our legislators are of the larrikin class, we are not likely to have any severe legislation against their own order! ” The other day, says the N. Z. Herald, we made reference to the telegraph feat (socalled) of the New York Telegraphic Department in forwarding the Revised New Testament in one message from that city to Chicago in a given space of time, and stated that the officers of the New Zealand department were not particularly impressed with the (mures which gave for the number of wires employed about 670 words per hour as the rate of transmission. The Tasmanian Mail republishes our paragraph with the following comment, winch will be gratifying to the New Zealand telegraph officials :—“ In addition to this testimony on behalf of the New Zealand operators we are in a position to state that, taking the department throughout, they are the quickest transmitters and sound readers in any country where the telegraph is in use.”