Notes and Events.
Speaking at Apiti, Mr Pirani said he was in favour of amending the Education Act so as to abolish Boardß and give committees laiger powers to provide for ofle central authority and shifting of inspectors. One of the Shah's superannuated cats still enjoys a pension of £400 a year, and one of the royal roads to success in Persia is to cultivate the good graces of these favourites. One of them once fell asleep on the cocktails of a courtier, who, with the true instinct of diplomatic genius, unhesitatingly cut off his brocaded skirt rather than disturb pussy's slumbers. A few years since crocodile races were run in Paris. The reptiles were the property of an American, and were three in number, being named respectively Jonaihan, Billy and Ontario. The course was about 170 yards in length, and the jockeys that rode them were monkeys.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1895, Page 3
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148Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1895, Page 3
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