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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 752, 3 July 1894, Page 3

Reid, Solicitor General, dangerously ill. W. P. Reeves resigned position as director of W. Z. Time* Coy. Wellington; Wellington Education Board amended its regulations so as to permit infliction of corporal punishment on girls by head teachers. Advices from Noumea report that the consecration of a Roman Catholic Cathedral was conducted with great ceremony. Archbishop Redwood and other prelates were enthusiastically received. They are now visiting the Loyalty Group. A schoolmaster once said to his boys that he would give a crown to any one of them who would propound a riddle he could not answer. * Well,’ said one of them, ‘why am 1 like the Prince of Wales ?’ The master puzzled his brains lor some minutes for an answer, but could not guess the correct one. At last he exclaimed, ‘ I sure 1 don’t know !’ ‘ Why,’ replied the boy, ‘ because I’m waiting for the crown.’ Sir E. Harland, M.P., one of the partners in the Belfast, shipbuilding firm, speaking in the House of Commons, said there is now in course of construction a class of steamers, presumably for the Atlantic trade, 160 ft to 170 ft longer than our two newest cruisers, the Powerful and Terrible, which are 500 ft long, and that these merchant steamers would be a couple of feet less in the beam. This means they will be at least 660 ft —one eigth of a mile—long, by 69ft wide. Even the Great Eastern was but 692 ft by 83ft.