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Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1894, Page 3

Wellington: A. Stewart, Pahiatua; E. Trepfear, Wellington : W. Vicary, Apiti ; C. F. Worth, Wellington ; S. K. Rpleigh, Tenui ; G. S. Rumble, ■ Ashurst ; G. Shannon, Waituna. Notes and Events. • Most unfortunately chosen norn de plume, li Junius "! when used by an advertiser, as it was on May the 10th, offering 50 fully paid up shares in the New Zealand Times. This is the 'ad ' : — FOR SALE CHEAP. K A FULLY PAID UP SHARES in New Zeaj^aio) Times Company, the owner having purchased them believing he was supporting a Liberal paper, but now discovers that he parted with his money under false pretences, the paper being a Tory in disguise. Apply JUNIUS, G.P.0., Wellington. AH this bother because the editor of that paper rose superior to party, and on the day previous had nobly endorsed Mr Gillon's action in refusing to disclose the means by which the contents of Colonel Fox's letter became known to him. The Times says "with such preposterous ideas our disappointed shareholder is perfectly right to withdraw from our sharelist. The cream of the joke lies in the statement that the advertiser is the Hon John McKenzie, the Minister of Lands I Fancy a Minister imagining for one moment that he could be in anyway associated with the " Junius " the writer of the series of letters which appeared in the Public Advertiser in London between 1768 and 1772. The real " Junius " denounced in very pcathing terms the various abuses of the British Government, but the Hon. John McKenzie seems inclined the other way about. " Junius " Me Kenzie, if thou wilt lake this part verily there is much for thee to do. First however " sell all that thou hast " in the New Zealand Ttmes or thy ways in the land may be troubled. Colonial " Junius " we await thy rising. There's Colonel Fox's letters, appointments to the Sergeant at Arms, Justices of the Peace, and advertising all waiting to be denounced by a modern Junius. Madame Tassaud's wax work exhibition comprises 500 figures, and employs a staff of nearly 100 persons. Half a million people have visited it during a year. The exhibition and its contents are valued at over a quarter million sterling. It is the property of a small limited company. Every figure in Madame Tassaud's exhibition has to be cleaned and recoloured once in six weeks, and to be wholly renewed every seven years. It takes about three weeks to finish a model outright. The most expensive costume ever turned out at Madame Tassaud's exhibition was the one worn by the Empress Eugenic in the zenith of her career ; that costume cost £650 to produce. All the Court dresses worn by the figures in the Royal groups, upon an average cost over £100 each. Every figure in the exhibition is completely clothed from head to foot ; all have their entire suit of underclothing, otherwise it would be impossible to make the costumes sit naturally on the models. The idea of the State conveying children to school has heen tried and found successful in America. It has been found more economical to concentrate the schools and pay for the carriage of distant scholars. One municipality reports : — We had quite a territory, 15 or 16 years ago, containing six districts each with a poor school-house and with an average of perhaps ten or a dozen pupils in each. We gradually abandoned these houses and carried the children to the centre, where we had a fine school building. We convey about 75 pupils at a cost of 1100 dollars annually. The children are not taken immediately from their homes except on main roads ; we do not follow out cross-roads. Lieut-Colonel Elsdale in the Contemporary Review declares that new discoveries will crowd thicker upon the world in the twentieth than in the nineteenth century. " The conquest of the air " is one issue, " Marine navigation is to be transformed " is another, and how to get the power out of coal without burning it, is a third, whilst the writer is hopeful of chemical and medical science making the vegetable foods — notably grass— digestible by man without first passing through animal intermediaries. SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.— A magnificent portrait from the moat recent photograph, suitable for framing, may be had from McKee & Gamble. N.Z. Press Agency, Wellington. Price 2/1 including postage. Agents wanted.