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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 45, 17 January 1902, Page 3

TO THE CITIZENS OF MOTUEKA. We have just opened a parcel of Spectacles. A first class pair for ss, No fancy price charged,. Your eves tested free of charge. — BßO WN SKERR. '

For the past four years a sensation has been caused in American religious circles by the missions of Jack Cooke, the Boy Evangelist. Of English extraction, the youth has lived for some years in America, and has come to be acknowledged as a powerful evangelist both in the United States and in Canada. The American press has reported his services at great length, and asks : " Has Mo< dy's mantle fallen upon his shoulders ?". Immense crowds have everywhere followed him, and many hundreds profess to have received spiritual help from him. The youthis at present engaged in a mission throughout the United Kingdom, accompanied by the Rev J. R. Coutts. an accredited American Baptist ministei.

March Ist is to be celebrate lin Sydney as " S >uth Africa Day." A procession of returned South African troops and veterans (with a suitable police and military escort) will march through the Streets of Sydney to one of the wharves, after which thej' will be taken for a harbour excursion to Clontarf, where a comprehensive programme of sports will be gone through. The Napier Telegraph asserts that one of the five doctors appointed to the Eight Contingent does not possess a physician's diploma, and yet is to be appointed Surgeon-Major over the other four, all of whom possess both surgical and medical diplomas ! Surely, this cannot be correct.

Miss Shrewsbury and Mr Selby had a little wordy encounter at the Saturday evening session of the New Zealand Educational Institute, on the subject of what Miss Shrewsbury had said (or meant). The lady,. in. a few crisp sentences, got distinctly the better of the Southland delegate, who, however, availed himself of the world-old masculine advantage—"can't hit a woman" —by remarking that "as he'd been knocked down by a. lady he'd stay down." The good-humoured thrust and parry lit up the "thick educational gloom" tor a few seconds. Two motor cars have been imported for the carriage of mails and passengers between Lismore and Tenter-field, New South Wales. The contractor for the conveyance of the mails is the importer..