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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1760, 4 December 1917, Page 3

The average nttendances at the local State school for the past four weeks were: 352.5, 350. C, 348.8, 303.3; the average for the whole period was 353.8 out of an average roll number of 383.7. The present school roll number is 381.

Some years ago, at a criminal trial in Dunedin, the offence charged being a murderous assault, the jury convicted. One of the jurymen afterwards told a friend how he came to vote “Guilty.” He said; “You remember the prisoner tried to prove an alibi by a comparison of the true time with the time shown by a clock in a certain shop. Well, I said to myself that if a man would set out to commit a murder he wouldn’t stick at going into the shop and putting back the clock.” This novel logic of assuming guilt and then looking for some fact to prop up the assumption, seems to be on a parallel with the argument that the Rev. J. Paterson spoke of at the Presbyterian Assembly on Monday liight (says the Dunedin Star). The subject before the Assembly was tho Mormon influence in the King Country., The rev. gentleman said that he and a Mormon once got into a discussion. The Mormon, being asked where his people got their doctrinal authority, replied: “Have you ever read the last chapter of Mark?” “Yes,” repied Mr Paterson. “And about supernatural gifts being continued?” The answer was again in the affirmative. “Well, we have those gifts.” Mr Paterson asked: “What gift do you possess?” The Mormon answered; “I have the gift of knowledge.” Asked, “In what way is your gift manifested?” the gentleman from Utah crushed his opponent with the answer: “I-know that I’m right and you’re wrong.”