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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 7

■ Miss Louisa 1 Thompson,..'of Petone, wili be prepared to arrange with ■ intending" .pupils - - in pianoforte 'playing and" theory,' 6a -and , after Wednesday, •:., .vc':-..;;: ''. ' , V;■:'.;.-.' , BicVJLE:REaiIR3.y.;-.'- ;:.,!; ." -Wβ undertake all classes of Cycle and Motor 1 Repairs. I'raine.s cut down, and :Gent's BikW Converted, to Ladies' Maoliines.''■ Euameliina etc. Ali first-class' work. r A''B; Powhall'and C 0.,. 74 ; Lambton. Quay,- , opposite Government BuildiugS. ~.: ■-..■,'. '■/■-"V- , -" ■'■':: ~-'.-'' ;]/:-. ;:;.■'<■.'■ \'./ : - : '■■.; '■: -rf'^: .'.' ■■• The. oldest -and .lest .firm in ' Australasia New Styles in Coat's and.'Skirts from £5 SS;5 S; Skirts iroiri \£l 10s.. Nodine . and. Coi;. 7fi Wellington Terrace. : . ''';.•.'.'..,.,.'.-..:,..-' .;. '.'-. i, ClOl9. . Travellers ■ and Tourists I i Mate your trip pleasant by getting New Zealand Express Co to handle your, baggage. :~ 'Baggage collected and forwarded any address. • Our porters meet Lyttelton : Boat. , Sample 'rooms' and storage always available., ■ TeleDhona 1331 ■■'-. -- , CB9D ■ If-you are contemplating removing, l the' first thing you ehould do is- obtain , a quotation from J. Keir, 76-78 Jervois" Quay., Eβ has had many years' experience in—tliis. , class of work, and is in a position to pack, store, and remove any description of furniture. V; He also clears goods through Cuetoni6, arid.diepatchoepaokages and parcels to any address, in the world. Telephono No-. 1180; ■ •■■'"■-.•; ;■;. "'.=',;■■.'.■; '• M ;i : ■ Dr.. H. .Drinkwater,' who -recently read an interesting paper on'heredity and inlieritarioe,' is. convinced, from"'a J ca'reful^and^^-prolonged study of both sides.of,the'quostidh,'that the subject is not absolutely, settled.one' way-or the other, but there jean be; little, doubt that, the most .definite facts ..arid .preoiso. experimental investigation.!.favour the sviews of Weismann. ~■-How.'conspicuous,;-;.:.says., bur authority,, has been 'the failure; to produce a short-taled raco of'fbx^terriers : :byi3opking the tail geperation after generation, or to-, produce children who. inherit,;the;-■peculiar., feet of v the Chincso .ladyl ;But lot-a'man be....born with a 'peculiarity, of- germinal origin, such as '■■cataract; 'brachydactyly, ■[ or night-blindnoss, arid/''about; 50;"pcr.;cent. of his children will show the" same"defect.: iMendel's work is absolutolv ~ih: favour,-of! Weismannism., Moreover,;thero".arVinstances on record :of the sudden appearance ..0f..'.-. new species, which: still--remain- , and , ; breed: trueto thoir peculiar types,- siich as;'—/ The niata cattlo, which first appeared in South America between .the... sixteenth' and "eighteenth centuries." -THearicon-sheep, which:appeared in 1791 (in Massachusetts). The maucbamp sheep, from a single lamb born in 1828 from merino parents. • Turnspit- and. pug- dogs, shorWaced 'tumbler,;.- pigeons,:, hook-billed pigeons, tailless and hornless-animals. '. Irish women do nptxare.about the'yoto for tho same reasons 'that ''have": caused .their aristocratic and.highly literary 'sisters iri England to form the AntirSuffrago Society, They have never felt their need of-it.— "New: im. land Review."- . ■: :.