LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 February 1909, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Whilst motoring with relatives in Invercargill Mrs W. W. Squires, ..ot-Nel-son, had a narrow escape' from eerious injury. The car whilst being .attended to; ran backwards over a "bank precipitating the party on the sea shore. Mrs Squires was not thrown clear' of the car, and she sustained injuries. necessitating a week in bed, but..-*-^ ear]y-re-covery is anticipated. '- ' \ A successful concert was-given by the Citizens' Band in the Botijfiical Reserve last evening. Tho selections were appreciated by those present^ and magnophone music by Mr F. N. Jones, junr., added materially to the performance. The Anchor Company announce an excursion trip fiom Motueka on Wednesday next, when the s.s. Koi will cave there for Nelson at 8 a.m., and teavc here on the return trip at. 6 p.m., thus affording excursionists an opportunity of attending the Kiltie's band eii-tert-uin-ment, and reaching horrtc s.-.r>ie •• evening. Figures showing tho . remarkable growth of the British Newspaper Press were given by Mr;C. Awdry at a dinner in aid of the Jfowsvendors ' Benevolent and Provident Institution. "In 1840," he%old.hia audience, ' ' there were 550 newspapers, in 1870 'tho number had--incrcasi*d to 1370, and now that figute . has reached the enormous total of 2353. In 1870 the best type of machinery produced 8000 comploto .copies of an ©ight-page payer in one hour. Now 20,000 copies of a twenty-four page paper are produced in the same time. The Director of Education for South Australia haa introduced a novel aaa useful schema for tho education r, children in tho more remote portions of the State— the employment of a comfortable tnd roomy tent to takf the place of thi: ordinary structure in the districts vl-ere the number or settlers doe-i rot offer sufficient i*uduccment to the Government for 1.-i'-d-ng schools. The first tent has ben completed, and will be sliippad to its detsination— tho .Hundred of Shannon, on the E?re Peninsula— next week. It has a neat and comfortable appearance, and should accommodate a large number of scholars. A partition is arranged in the centre to divide the scholars into two classes if desired by the teacher. Should tho innovation be a success, and there is every probability that it will, the experiment will be repeated in other localities, though it is not intended to make uso 'of the system where the number of scholars warrants the erection of ordinary schoolhouses. The hint should be useful to New Zealand Education Boards with regard to remote districts. An -extraordinary story of kidnapping was told ' by a boy of twelve named George Leach, who reappeared at his homo at Blackpool on Saturday, November 14 after being lost f-ince last June. It appears that he was playing in the street when a man induced him to carry a parcel to » street near by. Thero the man seized him and took him away. His clothes wero confiscated, and he was forced to wear filthy rags and to act as (jfuide for the man 's wife, a t>nmii woman, who went on tramp. In order to get money by begging tho boy was forced to pretend to be' the blind w*>- | man's son. The three went from j town to town, sleeping under hayhaystacks, and the boy was so frequently beaten that on his return lo was found to be covered with brni.t -s. The first opportunity he got of escaping was in Edinburgh, where h:managed to get to the police Mation. Tho next day the police sent him home. On Friday next. February sth, at 2 p.m., Mr W. Lock will sell, at the Central Auction Rooms, by order of the Public Trustee, the piano, furni'uro, and -effects in the estate of Lewis Sheather, deceased. The Victory Butter is nkade from whole Milk Cream, the cream being reduced in temperature by the latest* and most up-to-date scientific appliances. The public are guaranteed that this butter is free from all genua, is sweet and wholesome, and con be had at s*me price as other br&jda.* Many people think it is high time that such brutal displays as given in the Burns-Johnson fight should bo prohibited. Mrs Mumbles -thought these 'ere "glove fights" were 6oit things and quite harmless; she was astonished to read that a man's jaw can_ bo broken and his ribs poundej. in ***ith a pair of gloves, and that Burns -might have "passed out" but for. police intervention. Srores aro also astonished to find that Lock, the Universal; Provider, and Complete Furnisher, holds such "a magnificent stock if -np-to-date .furniture, etc., and --ives- sneh -marvellous value. Mr Lock is also agent for Harland's English pianos, Aperican organs, Power Washerf, Wonderful Sun Lamps (the lightest and cheapest light in the world), "Easibak" Lino. Polishers, Britannia Air 'Rifles, Zealand!;and Mineor Ranges, the-'latest novelty, 'h-* "People's Flycatchers," and other :■-.: -iaiities. All invited to- inspect -one of the best shows in -the Dominion."