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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 800, 18 January 1910, Page 4

| “I am glad,” said President 1 Taft recently, ‘‘that I shall not have any property to leave ray boys, of whom I have two, but only good characters, pride in themselves, and a good education ; but as for my daughter I am going to scrape as much as I can and give her as good an education as I can, so that she shall marry only when she chooses to marry, and not because circumstances compel her.”

The Acting Mother-General of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sydney, Sister La Merci, died last week at the convent of the order, Mount Street, North Sydney. It was only recently that the death was a'swounced of the Mother-General and foundress of the order, Mother Mary, and Sister La Merci, who had been her assistant, carried on the duties of the vacant office pending the election in February next. Her health, however, had not been satisfactory lor some months past. Sister La Merci (Miss Mahoney), who was born in Tasmania in 1859, made her profession 33 years ago, and spent most of her life as a religious in Victoria. The congregation numbers 750 sisters, and there are 109 branch houses in the Australian States and New Zealand.

Mr T. K. Donne has unearthed the following choice bit of ‘‘information ” regarding New Zealand which appeared in theCinciunatti (Ohio) Enquirer on May 25th last. Referring to a Maori woman who was admitted to the hospital on the previous day, the paper says: *‘ She speaks English fluently, although she lived for years in what is known as Kings Country, in New Zealand, which but a single white man ever explored. Like all the natives of that country she is proud of her birthplace, where its chiefs still live in rude barbaric splendour and where polygamy is still practiced, although cannabilistn has been abolished.” 'Phis may be regarded as another striking example of the free imagination of the American reporter, and also of the misleading piffle served up by the American press.