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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2019, 2 March 1907, Page 3

A boy named Janies Anderson died of senile decay recently at the City Hospital, Minneapolis. He was only eleven years and two months old, but the physicians declare that the condition of his vital organs showed all the characteristics of a man of sixty. When the child was six years ohj ]ii«. Jmir begun to turn grey, his''eyesight'' to fail, and he walked with the deliberate care of a person well advanced in years. As a very young child Anderson was unusually b.-i- bt. but his mental faculties gradually failed during his last two years, and for some months he behaved as though in his dotage.

The Post on the Scddon memorial

“This vein of reflection was suggested by the announcement made a few days ago that the Seddou Memorial Committee has about £IOO in hand, and hopes to increase it to £BOOO, and by the calculation of a local humorist, that, at the present rate of progress, “will bring tlie liappy consummation which the Memorial Committee have so much at' heart to about the year of our Lord 2245.” If it is possible to add a serious word upon such a theme, let us say that it would be better far tlie committee to drop tlie business altogether than to allow it to remain in the farcical position where it at present rests. The reason why they have failed so lamentably hitherto is that they have been so busy enquiring wliqt other people would do if they did something,' that the- have got nothing done themselves. The present position is that if the City Council will give building and land worth £12,000, and the Government will give £ far £ and the Mount Cook site, the committee - will do their best to raise £BOOO themselves. Wc should much like to see the Government grant the site for the purposes of a technical school, whether as a memorial or in any other way, but while the committee maunders along in its present helpless fashion, the custody of the £IOO which it has now in band is quite as much responsibility as it deserves to bo entrusted with. Let tlie committee set to work as they would have worked for Mr. Seddoii in his lifetime, and when they have r "pt something bettor than £IOO to heir credit, it will be time to ask the City Council aud the Government for help,”

Tho Auckland Herald states: “For many years Auckland has had tho distinction of being tho only province of Now' Zealand claiming a fully-equipped Xattorsall’s Club. It looks vory much as though tho oldtimo club is to go out of oxistonco. Some two years back tho committee of the club considered that tho time liad arrived for a shift to more commodious premises, and when Colwill’s Buildings, in Swanson street were designed it was doeidod to lease a fiat, and furnish the same in an up-to-dato manner. This was duly carried out; but tho membership has boon steadily falling for some time, and matters havo now got to that stago when to go on further with a weekly loss regularly recorded would moan to absorb the whole of the resources of tho club. A mooting of members was hold last week, when tlie whole position was thoroughly roviowoil, and it was decided to endeavor to sub-lot the rooms held by the club. Tnttorsall’s Club, it may bo romarked, bus still a good nest ogg of about :CldOO in tlie bank, and there is a proposal to divido the sum remaining amongst the existing members after all liabilities havo boon discharged.”