NEWS AND NOTES.
Mr. S. B. M'Carthy, S,M., at Invercargill on Wednesday, states that the fine allowed by the Act for neglecting to send children to school is too small. He has only the power to order the payment of 2s with 7a costs, which is net sufficient in those cases where parents keep their children at homo to work. They were only brought before the Court once a quarter, and during that time the services of the children yield a much greater return than the amount of the penalty.
An ingenious Austrian inventor has patented a speaking clock which he claims will be of the greatest value to persons of forgetful and irregular habits. It consists of a clock phonograph combination. In place of the usual striking attachment is a phonograph, which can bo set to speak a sentence at any time desired, thus becoming an unfailing reminder to its owner of the duties of each successive hour. It is not often that a dedication is taken as an insult ; but the " Milwaukee Sentinel " is quoted a 3 giving a ca r r.e where a young lady got heavy damages from a shipowner for naming 3iis ship after her without leave. Her wrath was caused by the paragraph: " Kittio Marshall, having been thoroughly scrubbed, painted refitted with new boilers, will hereafter serve as mail-carrier, and poke her pretty nose into the Jake business for all she worth." The style was too familiar.
The officieial statistics of admissions to the Paris Exhibition show a total of £48,000,000. Thirty-nine millions visitors were admitted with 47,000,000 tickets, from two to fivo tickets being required at certain hours, and on certain days, while the admission of exhibitors, season-ticket holders, and attendants numbered over 8,000,000, and the freo day drew 449,000 visitors. The paying visitors, starting with 1,179,000 in the second fortnight of April, roso to 3,323,000 in May 5,429,000 in June, 5,182,000 in July, 0,335,000 in August, and 7,810,000 in Keptember, whi'e in October they were 6,761,000, and in the first twelve days of November 3,145,000,
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 May 1901, Page 4
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343NEWS AND NOTES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 May 1901, Page 4
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