Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 150, 16 June 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

' ' ; — ♦ . 1 those Deeming 1 received letters frbm before his sentence was ', carried out was a lady : of Brighton (Victoria), who after dealing at. length with religion, suggested that she should be presented with the biographical notes, so that she might be enabled to get money to ereci a monument to his memory. Deeming*, whose sense of the humorous aud grotesque had not been , : dulled by •his trials, considered this letter the gem of the collection, and expressed his sorrow that he had not made the 'writer's acquaintance ■■" prior to the Windsor atfuir." Another lady .sent Deeming 1 , a parcel . of. sacred earth Iroin Palestine, and none of them neglected to enclose a bundle of tracts it) their letters. When told that a well-known Melbourne doctor was amongst those anxious for his brains, Deeming responded, "He needs them." The maxim that he who plants forests will lose at least twenty years' profits, and yet find his recompense in the ena, has been confirmed by the testimony of Mr Jowitt, in connection with the extensive planting on the Heaiey estate, bpeaking to the members of the English Arboricultural Society, who had been making a sort of tour of observation of the growing 1 timber in Durham and ■JN orth.uinberland, this gentleman stated that when the late Mr Ormiston bought the Heaiey estate there was little or no wood upon it, but hk planted about half tae land with and - before he died ; saw the first growth cut down and theiland replanted. This , is, of course, an enterprise only open to landlor&s who are absolute owners>'of the soil. The gross receipts for timber sold amounted to £56,000 - certainly a very large amount to be taken off an estate which had originally cost only £22,---000. • A controversy is at present going on in the Victorian newspapers as to whether women, ; more especially Jschool teachers, "who do the same work as men, should be paid the same wages. As a matter of simple ..justice is would seen so, but one .* correspondent presents the arguments . of the : other . side, thus:— " A fifth class man teacher receives about L 197, orL3 15s per week; a woman " Ll2O, or L 2 6s, per week, - Now the ; latter is much better off, as she has only Herself to keep, while the man has a wife and family to support. The man makes the profession his study, but the woman is hoping to get married and resign. A similar case is that of the opera chorus singers. The men are paid about twice, as much as the women, not . that they can sing better, but because they cannot be obtained for less. So it is with the teachers, and the department would riot get a supply of good men if it did not pay them ■ enough to live upon. It resolves itself into a question of supply and demand." .