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The writer ridicules the system for selecting juries and calls for reform. He cites a recent occurrence in Cairns when a quarter of the jurors failed to turn up.
'The first number of the Geraldton Advocate is to hand. The editor, Mr. E. C. M. Draper, late of Cairns, may be fairly congratulated on a very creditable production.'