GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17105, 29 March 1921, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

A civic reception will be given to visiting delegates to the Master Painters' Conference in the Council Chambers this morning at 10.80.

Sir Francis Bell is expected to visit the Coast shortly to discuss with local bodies the question of royalties in connexion with the forestry policy. A Press Association telegram states that the Wonganui Collegiate School Easter reunion was very largely attended, and the various functions passed off satisfactorily. Astelegram from Wellington states that an attempt was made yesterday morning to refloat the scow Magic, which went ashore at Pencarrow on Saturday. The effort-was unsuccessful.

The police are making enquiries following oil a report of a forged totalisator ticket having been operated on at the meeting.at Riccarton yesterday. No arrest had been made up to last night. Captain Buckley flew the New Zealand Aero Transport Company's De Haviland E from Timaru to Dunedin on Thursday, and the machine was left, as usual, at the foreshore during the night. On Friday morning evidence of "deliberate interference, was found in the guise of two largo rips in tho tail plat© and.damage to the pilot's wind screen, which, in point of fact, had .been torn off.

The South Island Railway Appeal Board has dismissed the appeal of J. T. 'Barclay, of Dunedin, against the decision of the Railway Department to reduce his status from that of enginedriver to fireman for a period of six months. The principal charge against Barclay was that he ran past a danger signal at Port Chalmers on October 20th last. The case has attracted a good deal of attention since that time, and has been the cause of some friction in the railway service. • The Appeal Board sat in Wellington last week. During the luncheon adjournment at the cricket match yesterday (says a Wellington message), Mr E. Heathcote Williams, president of the New Zealand Cricket Council, congratulated the Australians on their splendid record in the Dominion, not a single match having been lost. The tour had been of great advantage to New Zealand cricket, and much educational value to Dominion cricketers. The council aimed at securing a visit from English amateurs, say. every ten years. He suggested that the Englishmen should play matenes in the Dominion, on their way to Australia, while tho Australians could do the same when journeying to England. Messrs Howard (manager), Ransford (captain), and Waddy (vicecaptain) responded. They said there would be no difficulty in getting the best Australian cricketers to pay a visit to New Zealand.

St. John's (Anglican) College, Auckland, which was closed in November, 1916, on account of all the available students having offered for war service, was reopened on March sth last. • Tho erection of new college buildings was delayed on account of the shortage of material, but a very fine and hanasome students' block is now fast approaching completion. A new departure in policy this year is that the Maori students, who formerly were educated at Te Reu, Gisborne, have been brought to St. John's. They .are temporary housed in two wooden hutments. The pake ha students are in the Patteson wing. Six Maori students out of ten have arrived. There are seven pakeha students in residence, and it would be impossible to have more than one additional scholar at present. Applications for scholarships are invited by advertisement from time to time as vacancies occur. There seems to be a general misconception that St. John's is a purely theological institution. the scholarships on the Marsh Foundation are restricted by the Trust to students who desire to take Holy Orders, and all other scholarships are open to any young man belonging to the Church cT England who has matriculated and desires to continue his studies in science, law, medicine, or any other branch of learning. The present value of a Marsh scholarship is £9O, and the others £BO. The present Warden of St. John's .College is Canon P. T. -Williams, M.A., Camb. Tho assistant tutors are the Rev. J. T. McWilliam, 8.A., N.Z.—a ,Maori scholar—and the Rev. E. Chittv M.A., N.Z. An impoverished condition of the blood is generally responsible for unexplainable headaches, lack of energy, lassitude, etc. The remedy is to strengthen your blood with Loasbv's Nerve Tonic and Blood Enricher—it makes rich, red blood. 3s 6d and 6s 6d a bottle, all chemists, or from Loasby and Co., Chemists (opp. Ballantyne's). 0

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