YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2096, 23 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. NELSON

The dirt' at Baigent’s sawmill throw many out of employment. A sudden change of wiml from the south to north brought back the llames, which Micro was no resisting. Tunniclitfo .mill, in Brandy Valley, noiir Dovetail, panvllel with Jiaigent's, ami T. Price's mill, in Trass Valley, are also in peril, as the (lames are sweeping thitherward, hut there are no details available. Among the sufferers in Waimei Plains are J. \Y. and .Jas. Kves, h\ Clirrin, and T. Wadsworth. Owing to the density of the smoke anti great heat, it is almost impossible to muster stock, ami hence great loss is feared if the lives continue to spread and rain keeps off. The farmers ure very gloomy, and fear depression in the' autumn and winter. Baigent's sawmill at Pigeon Valley, AVaiiti district, was burnt down by the bush lives yesterday

WELLINGTON

Mr. Ohow, manager of the Nirelia dairy factory, fouiul himself surroumled by ilames ami his escape cut oil'. Me tried io take refuge in a water tank, but could not empty it quickly enough. He soaked' his clothes ami broke open the schoolroom door with a spade. His own and all the houses near were tl*>n in Ilames, and the sehool followed. He started digging n hole, but his clothes got dry, and he took them off, fearing they would catch alight, but the sparks fell on his skin. He wrapped his coat over him and huddled into a hole about 2Jft dee]), and; remained till found bv a rescue party. WELLINGTON.

Six hundred and eighty-three candidates have passed the examinations for the junior national. Education Board junior, and l junior Queen’s scholarships. The list is headed' by Natalie Allen (Wellington), 701.

In his address at the annual session of the New Zealand University Senate to-day, Sir Robert- Stout referred to the mi irked difference between the New Zealand University institutions and those of the United States in regard to the assistance granted by private persons. Wealthy men of the United States had recognised it both as a privilege and duty to give freely of their wealth to university institutions. New 'Zealand’s wealthy men had done little in that direction. If wealthy mom in the Dominion were to give as freely of their wealth for higher education as the wealthy of the United States citizens there would be benefactions amounting to at least £4o,l)Uu -a year, that is on a proportional estimate of the wealth and population of the respective countries. New Zealand university institutions dated back to IS7I, and during the past 37 years there had not been received an aggregate of £40,000 from the wealthy men of the Dominion. During the past ten years the estates of twenty-one deceased persons of a value of over £IOO,OOO each had passed through the stamp office, and not one of the deceased had left anything for education.