Considerable surprise has been aroused by Mr. Justice MacCardie's recent speech in which ho announced that he was of the opinion that perjury was more rife today than ever. "He pointed out that it was! net only expected of an accused person in a criminal trial, but was. committed in the great majority of civil as well as criminal cases as well, not to mention the Divorce Courts and that if the offences were) followed by prosecution the Courts} would have all their time taken up fin trying the offenders. The ordinary layman, says Mr. MacCardie, has little conception of the repul-_ amount of false evidence which is given. All that the layman can, retort is that he does the best that can be expected of him under very' difficult circumstances and really' the solution of the matter is in the. judges' own hands. They ought to bbe able to stop it if they liked, if, tic measures were taken from time to time and examples made. If things are really as bad as Mr. MacCardie would have us believe, it is difficult to understand why the Judges have not put their beads together about it before.
The Giant New Cunarders According to the statements. of, the Under-Secretary of the Board of Trade during the discussions on the insurance of the new. Cunard Liners in the House of Commons. last week, the first ship to be built will be 1,018 feot in length, 73,000 tons in displacement and of. cubic' capacity' of 7,300,000 feet. She will thus be indisputably the largest ship in the world and there is not the least doubt that she will be able to regain for this country. the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. That is to say, she should be able to make the passage from Southampton to New York in four days which is short a time that it will make Air Transport across the Atlantic seem hardly worth bothering about, especially in view of the fact that it will be a very long period before it will be possible to guarantee regular service. Everyone welcomes the assistance the Government is giving to the Insurance of the new vessel though some of the Socialists suggested that it ought to get something as a quid pro quo in the form of luxurious accommodation for the crew or something on those Hines, The fact that the or London Insurance market Jearry about half the risk, will ensure that everything is on a scund Dustness footing.
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