MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1904, 15 June 1889, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Charles Wilkinson, convicted of larceny of hooks from the Auckland Free Library, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to three years penal servitude. As two bearers were walking away from the grave in which they had deposited a neighbor, one said to the other: “ Well, Mr Morse, here’s where we’ve all got to come, if we live .” The Wellington Licensing Committee granted all licenses except m the case of married women whose husbands are living apart. The police objected to the renewals of these, and on an intimation from the bench that they had no power to grant renewals, the applicants applied for adjournments for transfers. The houses affected are three—the T© Aro, Central, and Commercial. When speaking at Wellington recently, Mr Fisher told his constituents he was directly and distinctly opposed to the Hare system. The system was like national arbitration for the suppression of war, temperance, and land nationalism—perfect and unanswerable on paper, and utterly impossible in practice. It asked you to elect a man you never saw before. _ A man might be an excellent essayist, but the biggest fool you ever saw when you came to meet him. The Hare system gave no chance either to a new man or a young man; he himself might have been fighting away all his life until he was grey-headed, he would not say bald-headed—(Mr Fisher is bald-headed)—and he would never have been elected. Just at that moment Mr Fisher lifted his hand, in accordance with an old habit, to his head, and added, impressively, “ I certainly would never have been elected on the Hare system. The applause and laughter which greeted this doubly unquestionably truthful statement stopped the progress of the speaker for quite a time.