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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1548, 1 September 1905, Page 2

The Ministers’ Association of New Ply. mouth applied by deputation to the Central School Committee to make suitable arrangements to Becure the reading of the Bible aod prayers in the publio sohool during school hours. Permission was refused on the voices; but Adjutant Dickens obtained leave to oonduot divine servioe'sfter sohool hours one hour a week. ‘

In a certain country district, not manv hundreds of miles from Auckland, lives a man in the prime of life who holds a medioal certificate of his own death, which ho would not part with for any small eonHe was dangerously ill from typhoid, and the dootor, on one of his visits, concluded that he would not last long. In the event of death, the doctor would be required to oome five' or six miles, over very bad roads, and to cross a river. Therefore, to save hicnself further trouble, he wrote out the certificate of death, saying that the end would happen in a few hours. The patient lived, and that death certificate has been the joke of the distrist aver otaoe,—Observer,