GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Madame Emma Eames, fclie celebrated singer, has instituted a suit sagainst her late husband to recover rihe sum of 20,000 dollars personal ty, ’•■which he has failed to transfer to -'her under the terms of their divorce •agreement. There is just a whisper in military circles, says a Melbourne paper, that Inspector-General Hoad may, under the new defence policy, go homo to dLondon to represent Australia on Mr 'Haldane’s Imperial Staff, which -would not he a bad finish for a man who began life as a State school ■teacher, A consular report issued in Washington, says an Evening Standard’s correspondent, states that Japan has overcome its aversion to milk and butter, and both are now in gi’eat ; favour. During his recent illness from ; maitoiditis, Mr Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, y gave up meat altogether. He was" so pleased with the result that he has now become a confirmed vegetarian. Two married couples decline to live in the ‘Wandsworth Guardians’ .Homes for Married Couples. “They prefer the workhouse.’’ a committee reports, “where they will not see • each other all day long.’’ A Polish author named Strahinsky ' has written to protest against the Russian Censor, who altered a sentence in his novel which read “He •was the slave of - his passions” to '-“He was the negro of his passions.” The planting of fruit trees is proceeding apace in the districts between Miller’s Flat and Roxburgh. On Wednesday last, says the Tuapeka Times, a waggon load of young trees was taken from the Lawrence Railway Station to Roxburgh, and other ■consignments are going forward daily. Speaking at St. Andrew’s Church, Dunedin, on Sunday, on the source 'of sin, Dr, Waddell had occasion to 2 show how the Biblical explanation .came in conflict with the popular theory that the root of evil is in a 1 mian’s environment. Rousseau long iago had held that man was inherently good, and if he had only -decent circumstances and got fair play evil would disappear. This was .... a* point much pressed by Socialists at [Afche present day, hut the speaker went on to quote authorities showing that in Italy and other European countries the poorer classes committed fewer crimes in, proportion against property than the well-to-do, and also that Victoria, in spite of ; 3ts higher conditions of living, had .gust as high a percentage of crime .-against personal property as soxne|of •the poor and squalid States of Spe. “It is an ancient saying,” eked the doctor, “that ‘the love mey is the root of ail kinds of ’ It has been reserved for this ation to reverse that and to igate the absurdity that ‘want mey is the*of all kinds of ■'*' i< trio fo" Surprised at the on the . , -f -vher day after i ¥„.*■'■ ' 3 ” sa y s °* him ,Jdl T.. 1 Volumn of that ■'>■ . ‘ vCJ\ with a properly r ■ ~ i: ..~ — -J, the ludicrous v > f & -aysP?~fcns, ’’ stand Mr - its PreSpier for ten days, - . glad ii; 'might be to en- ' . him in his proper place—in . ' or the music bail. Mr i ; vvillfif-h at any time to don is not only ready an’ f-tckJ himself, but conT-' of being made a pressman : ' vVTfc 8 . Bio *of ‘ copy’ has only ■, fort* questions, and, } Sy -bedrHwe are again!’ ■ Jh-dVda antic disposi- > affd .acfsvMe clown with '