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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3544, 8 July 1905, Page 2

At Levin a man named James Kane was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on charges of vagrancy and assaulting a little girl. Some time ago representations were made to the Postmaster-General for a renewal of the mail service between Foxton and Levin. A reply has now been received that the Foxton-Shannon contract will not expire till end of 1906, and it is undesirable to divide the service. In the course or an address at Otaki, Dr Valintine said the medical fraternity were now able to say that consumption was not hereditary, as was commonly supposed. Several eminent experts had come to this conclusion after careful research, and he was pleased to be able to convey this good news to many who supposed they were born under this ban. The Stockholm newspapers recently stated that a number of students of the high schools there had offered their assistance to the municipal authorities during the strike of the scavengers. One night the streets were cleaned by students. It was reported that many military officers and civil officials intended to form a voluntary scavengers’ brigade, in the event of the continuance of the strike.

There is in Russia only one village school to every 12,000 persons.

In Japan there exists a society tor the promotion of laughter., There are 41 1 libraries in the colony receiving Government subsidies.

The " Advocate ” reports that lambing has Commenced in the Turakina Valiev.

Mr Bert, Austin has disposed “M* one of his shops in Main street to a Vl'eiltn’o’Wß Celestial. The Dune-alrf Savings Banks trustees have donated -flood fo the Hospital Extension Fund.

A Christchurch fishmonger has been fined 40s and costs for having trout in his possession out of season 111 th® I>w«r J?angi(i!>ei the rainfall registered lot' I tine was yos in-, or three times that recorded in June last s?ear ( and irt. above the average for that niorttll.

Sample of Legislative Council wisdom, from the lips of the* Hon, W. Beeham ; “ Year by year, to my mind, coal h&'Orries necessary, especially in the winter-”—" Everting Post.”

Political parties in Napldf took ahead. It is stated that all cabs in that thriving seaside village have been engaged, except two, for polling day.

The annual meeting of All Saints Ladies 1 Guild was held on Thursday afternodih It \Vas, decided to hold ft bazaar and sale of vVctflt irt October next foi- the benefit of the' c’lhitdll funds; the exact, allocation of tile' surplus will be left to the parishioners to settle.

At a meeting ot All Saints Vestry on Wednesday afternoon an' inspection df the Vicarage property in the Avenue and the chilrdll section in Main Street was make. Though no definite recommendation has been come to dri the matter it is understood that at the meeting of parishioners on the igth inst, a suggestion will he made with reference to building a new vicarag's on the church section and generally improving that property. At the School Committee meeting on Wednesday there were present Mesdames Frankland and Haywood, Messrs Baker (chairman), Betty, Gray, Rey. Wilson, and Mr Frankland (secretary). The headmaster reported that, considering the weather, the average attendance had been satisfactorily maintained. It was decided to increase the caretaker’s remuneration to 95 6d per week. A complaint regarding one of the out-houses was referred to a sub-committee to deal with. The passing of accounts concluded the business.

It was expected that a trial of the Galbraith system of smelting the titanic sand .of which such large deposits are found on the Taranaki Coast, would be made in England during May. The inventor and those associated with him were sanguine of success. The secretary to the J company gave an English correspondent some particulars of the furnace .to be used, which, he said, can be used for.a good many other purposes in connection with smelting. For instance, it can deal very efficiently with oxide of copper, and with various kinds of iron ore. Only, inasmuch as its special capacity is tor the smelting of ore in fine powder, like ironsand, the more solid iron ores, such as hematite, would require to he crushed before passing through the furnace. Any ore, however, that goes through the Galbraith furnace is almost instantly melted, passing as it does among carhoi s heated by electricity to so high a point that a temperature of 6000 deg. Fahr., can be generated between them; that is to say, without actual contact with the carbons themselves.

I 'The Education Department Ins n>- : ceived a communication from the Lon j don headquarters of the League of tin i Einpire asking that publiciiy shoal 1 I be given to conditions under which the Earl ot Meath offers prizes to be competed for by schools throughout th > Empire. A silver challenge c ip, valued at £lO ros to be held by Hn winning school, and a yearly personal prize of £5 5s is offered to sconduv schools for an Empire Day essay W not more than 3000 words, the sul - jeet to be of Imperii! hit west mil import, and to be announced not les; than six months before May 2.lth. For primary schools, a challenge nn valued at £lO 10s, and an mu ml personal prize of £3 3s are offe-'J to ■ a similar essay ot not more than i 0 ' words. All essays will he ind red firstly in their schools, secondly hv | representatives of the 'eagne. in the different countries of the Empire; those selected for final competition tvjudges appointed by the executive rf the Federal Council in London. Thu special subject for this year is “ Empire Day, its foundation, purpose, and mode of celebration.” Subject; of the essays will be supplied from year to year by the different countries of the Empire, Australia having take 1 the initiative this year. The carelessness displayed by a certain section of the public still render; the “dead letter'’ branch of the Post Office a very import an I feature of the Department. During last year thi; branch dealt with no fewer tha 1 243,761 letters, letter-cards, and postcards, some 12,000 more than in th ■ previous year, and it is interesting 1 > note that out of that large total onlv 12,167 were destroyed, while nearly 120,000 were opened and returned t > the writers.- The state of mind n ( sorn 1 people may be inferred from t s e fac* that 2470 newsoaper« and 1738 hook s and articles were posted withon any address whatever, and a simila neglect took place in regard to 681 letters and 200 letter card.;. Included in the letters opened were 45 bank drafts of the value of £4431; 47 post office orders of the value of £1154: 376 cheques of the value o r £2769 ; besides dividend warrants promissory notes, credit notes, postal no'es, < stamps, bank notes (£327'' £3B in gold, , and over £l4 in silver and capper. In | addition to these, there was a varied assortment of watches, chains, brooches, rings, spectacles, pirn, charms, knives, pawn tickets, “ Tattersail’s” lottery tickets, a p'ece of kami gum, and so on.

The Absolute Majority Bill waferead-' a second time in the House of itepte*-' sentatives on Thursday. At Wakapuaka onj'hursday night i'boy was struck by lightning and tern-

porariiy blinded, It is expected no serious results will follow.^

In an article in “ Blackwood,” some strictures are made upon the House ol: Commons. The writer, among other things, says: “If the standard ot Parliamentary eloquence has been maintained, the standard of has not. Gladstone, Lord Boaconsfield, Sir William Harcourt, Mr Cham*' Mr Bright, and Mr Balfour iieeu fear no comparison with the great dfa * ors °f :f be past. But there is a maffeed ini? :r ‘ orir y in the rank and file, owing no u ol,ht to <lie n(!vv el®' meats infused into the Honse b y the Reform Bills, and selection c£ t members from a diTbTcnt class of soeiety. The art of de'k'^ !D S' seemß almost extinct, except upo" 1 the two front benches, and even there’ has not many professors of the h.^ class.”

At the School Committee meeting? some discussion took place on this question of new school buildings for Foxton. The chairman detailed the circumstance-! of the visit of Mlf Janies, the Board’s architect, and ex»pressed bis own views most strongly on the necessity of a new structure, as it would be unwise to waste money on “ tinkering” with the present buildIn the event, however, of a new sSCfiooi hot being forthcoming, the intolerable pnngestion in the school could only be .removed-by a very con. siderablfi expenditure on necessary repairs. New portfires would be a first,and absolute necessity, and even then the state of affairs inside the school would not b‘e materially im« proved. As Mr BakP-r observed the other evening, the roPh l3 were so crowded that he had been hnuble to walk between the ' seats, except sideways.

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