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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5110, 9 August 1877, Page 3

, The court of the Drapers’ Company has just made the very liberal grant 'of £IOOO to the Society of Arts for the promotion of technical instruction. This money is to be expended in providing courses of lectures ;■ suitable for artisan's, the subjects selected by the technical committee of the company being (1) metalworking, and (2) working in wood, In thus selecting special subjects, the object of the company is to provide instruction which may be serviceable to members of as many different trades as possible, in place of merely teaching those who are connected with a single trade alone. The lectures are to be given at the Society of Arts’ house, arid the arrangements are to be in the hands of the society, aided by a committee of the court of the Drapers’ Corripany. A further oifer has been made by the same company to give prizes to _tlie value of £SO if the technological examinations of the Society of Arts can be modified sufficiently to allow of attendants at .the lectures being examined. The main end and object of the whole scheme is to bring to the test of experiment the various proposals now floating about for the establishment of a central Technical University. It will be remembered that the two companies who have taken up this idea-most energetically are the Drapers’ and the Clothworkers’. The latter body have for some time been at work at Leeds in connection with the Yorkshire College of Science, and, the former are now endeavoring to test the requirements of London in this direction. An interesting line of investigation ' has recently been followed by M; C. Petermann, of the Belgian Academy. He searches for the causes of superiority of certain seeds obtained in given climates, over those of the same species in other.countries, so as, if possible, to help agriculture to appreciate, a priori, the germinative power or cultural value of seeds put into the ground. With a view to such i comparison he determines the purity of the seed, the absolute weight of each grain, its density, the weight of unit of volume, and the germinative power. He finds that seeds of clover, mace-reed, fir, and pine, got in Sweden between 55deg. and fiOdeg. latitude,' differ from those - in more ' southern countries; (1) in high germinative power ; (2) in great purity;; and (3) in pretty high' absolute weight. Further, the Swedish clover is exempt from dodder ; and the great energy of germination of northern seeds, along with their high absolute weight, explain theiri precocity and large yeilel, when transported from north to south, and cultivated along with the indigenous seeds'. , -Strangers paying a visit to Wellington, and country settlers arriving in town, aro very often at a loss to know which is the best house or cheapest general drapery establishment to visit,for buying drapery and clothing, J. McDowell and Co. offer special advantages. They keep at ail times the largest and best assorted stock of every class of goods, imported direct from tiro loading manufacturers of Groat Britain and Ireland, which, being bought on the moat advantageous terms, enables them to olfor goods of sterling qualities at prices that cannot be improved on' 1 by any house in the trade. Every article is marked at a Used price that cannot bo deviated from, so that inexperienced people can buy equally with the best judges, the terms being 5 per cent, discount on all sums of £2 and upwards, and 2,j per cent, on all accounts settled monthly; on ail quarterly accounts or statements, no reduction. Wo consider.that oasli buyers are entitled to tire above discount, and have adopted tiro above as a permanent system with our cmtomera, A full description of stock can bo obtained from onr catalogues and advertisement. Note the address—Opposite the Bank of New Zealand, corner of Lamb-ton-quay and Willis-streot, Wellington,—Advt Honest Testimonials most well-known Colonists are bettor far than all the. fulsome and absurd pulling bo generally adopted, and so repugnant to the minds of sensible and thinking people. The following testimonials aro given by way: of example of the very many received by the proprietor of GllOl-LAll’s GREAT INDIAN CURES from all parts of Now : Zealand, and will satisfy, the discerning inhabitants of Wellington of the extraordinary curative powers of these: valuable INDIAN'MBDIOINES. Sold by ail chemists and respectable medicine vendors tUrought out New Zealand“ Dunedin, 81st August, 1870-' Sir,—Having taken-your Ghollah’s Rheumatic Mixture for some considerable time, and having boon completely cured by its use of Jho very severe rheumatic gout from which l l had suffered most severely for the last ton years, I can boar, testimony ito its extraordinary curative .powers. ...I am now free from all pain, and well In my health, and, lure the free use of mybauds and feet, which 1 had not previous to taking