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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 5

Owing to a misunderstanding, "Tha Web of Fate'-' was not visibla at.the Lower Hutt Town Hal] last night. Mr. Montgomery was only mads aware of the .hitch at the eleventh, hour, and he hurriedly got together tha Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club, and succeeded in inducing them toi stage "Dr. Bill," so that Lower HutH patrons , would net suffer disappointment. Tho audience .was not large, but were thoroughly . apprecia* tive. . ,

All interesting astronomical event 06 rare occurrence will take place oa Thursday, May 19, when the earth will pass through the tail of Bailey's comet. Additional interest will bo given totHa event by', an illustrated lecture on tl». comet,, which-will he given in the Con-. cert Chamber of .t-ho Town Hall on tha previous evening, May 18, by the Yery " \ llev. Dr. Kennedy, S.M., F.B.A'.S.,' ■■■■' Sector of St. Patrick's College. In i vie* of . the authority of the lecturer - J on matters astronomical, and the facfc '; that tho lecture will take place only a few hours previous to the arrival of the "tail," it should indeed prova highly interesting and instructive. Further. details' of tlie lecture will bo published in a few days. . Ho was a countryman, and he walked along n busy thoroughfare and .read a sign over tho door 'of a manufacturing estab- • lishment— I "Cast-iron Sinks." It made him'sad.' Ho said that any idiot ought! to know tljat. ' i An organised scheme.for a London ■■■ ' School of Oriental' Languages -is to bo formulated. on the lines recommended in the report of Lord Rcay's Committee of 1909, By a - Departmental committee appointed by the. Secretary of State for India. Thei Earl of Cronier will preside, and the other members will bo Lord- Curzouj • the • Lord ' Mayor, Sir ■, Charles Hardinge, ' Sir Charles Lyail, ! and DrlH. Frank Heath, director of i speoial inquiries and- reports to tho I Board of Mii^at-ion.