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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 September 1901, Page 3

The annual examination in drawing throughout tho district is being held today. The number of candidates presented at the Grey District High School is unusually large viz:—32 Freehand 32 Scale, 31 Geometry, and 11 Model—total 106. The results will be known in about a month. The papers will be posted immediately to the examiners at Wellington. The supervisors of the examination are Messrs Ring, Forsyth and the Secretary of the Education Board. Cardiff exports 12 million tons of coal a year, nearly three times as much as her next rival, Newcastle. Newport sends away two and-a-half million tons, and Sunderland nearly as much.

A number of Wanganui residents are to appear at Court on charge of permitting trees to overshadow the roads. The cases will be the first of the kind brought in that town, under the 245th section of the Municipal Corporation Act 1900. Judge Conolly says that illegal operations on women are being performed every day, and yet are hardly ever detected, because the women who recover—and ninety-nine out of every hundred do—keep it quiet, and ‘dead women tell no tales.’

A correspondent informs the Clntha Leader that the farmers in the Inehclutha district are now devoting more time to dairying and cattlo feeding than to grain-growing, as they find it pays better and improves the ground. The alarm about a tendency to militarism being fostered has really no foundation in fact. It is a fine sentiment that we should avoid a warlike spirit and cultivate all that makes for peace. Granted, but there are responsibilities to be borne by a nation as by an indivdual and so long as human nature remains what it is, there is need for watchfulness on all sides —Otago Daily Times.