(From the Melbourne Age, July 28.)
The new system of ventilation lately introduced in the City Police Court, does not appear to perform its functions with that quietude necessary to the operations of the judicial mind. When set in working order it creates a noise so similar to the workings of a screw steamer, that one magistrate o.£ an imaginative character complained of sensations not altogether dissimilar from sea sickness. When orders .were given to stop or restrain the ventilatory force a brief period of silence ensued, but shortly afterwards the machine having obtained its release from the check imposed upon it, again commenced its burr, and effectually drowned the voices of the witnesses. ;
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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 294, 14 August 1860, Page 3
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114(From the Melbourne Age, July 28.) Colonist, Volume III, Issue 294, 14 August 1860, Page 3
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