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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5

At 10 o'olock this morning tho twontysoventh annual conforenco of tho New Zealand Educational Institute will opon attho T.M.C.A. Hall- Visiting teachers and others interested in education aro , invited to attend James Ward, an et-piivato of'tho 34th loot, i\lio received Bc\cntcen rounds outside Sebastopol repelling a Russian sortie of which he had gnen tho first alarm, and lay for two days undiscovered on tho battlefield, was buried recently at East Harling, Norfolk. He had drawn tin army pension for more than half a century. ' I'irst pnze in the potato-growing competition at tho llallam fields Garden Associations Shew at Ilkcston, Dcrbjshire, has been awarded to Mr. George M lute, who grew 2291b of potatoes from a pound of tubors cut into 80 sets. This con titutes a world's record. A number of youths at Leesvillo, Louisinna, put an opossum in a package and addressed it to ]?re ident Tiffc It was left in the post office dvoi night, and on Iho S>inday,it was discovered that the animal had chewed up all th« Kttcrs in the bag in which it had been placed A burglai who was sentenced to five J paf. , penal servitude nt Chaster, denied that ho told <ho policeman when ho was an cited that "it was a fair cop," and added "these words might ha\o been used bv a certain man who figured in otw of Dickens's novels—William Sikes— but no man with a scrap of education would use them."