THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 72, 18 October 1884, Page 5

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA.

At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria, a paper was read by Dr. J. Curl, oi New Zealand, on some figures discovered in a cave on the Glenelg River by Captain Grey (Sir Geo. Grey) in IS3S, and a number of written characters accompanying them. After comparing the paintings with similar ones executed by the ancient Syrians, Dr. Curl concludes: "Thus we have an Austialian family of aboriginals calling themselves of the race of Dan, and with a Syrian type of features ; and historians show that Syrian people sailed across tho Indian Ocean ; and we find in a cave in Australia a remarkable figure, an idol, drawn fully clothed amongst these nude black aboriginals, and its hands and feet and dress are painted in different shades of red, the distinguishing colours of the Syrian Edomites, and with alphabetical characters on its headdress and near its arm, which, when read, assert imoeratively that it is a representative of a great and mighty personage of that Syria whose merchants and travellers moved in those far off times over these distant seas, and who, long before England was a nation or Spain was a power, had discovered and lived upon these Australian lands."

In a recent number of " Eastward Ho !"a " Home Missioner " says it is quite a common thing in the East end of London for boys and giris of 16 to get married. Boys and girls of 12 "keep company," and at U or 15 every lad his "young lady." Here are some of the facts related by this writer : In his district a boy of 16 married a girl the 1 same age, and on the evening of the marriage the two cbfrildren fell out, the bride receiving a black eye ; a boy who sits at the back of one of Pickford's vans is a " married man." In a printing office in the City there are four boys — tho eldest is 19 and receives 13s. a-week, and is married ; The next is 18, has three years of his apprenticeship to serve, and has two children ; the youngest is 16, and has to keep a wife and child on 11s. a-week ; a newspaper boy between 16 nnd 17 has two children; and a butcher's ujy of 16 has one child. Don't Die in the House.— "Kough on Rats, "clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers, 7&d. Mosea, Moss, & Co,, Sydney, Qqwwl AjJWtfy—ADY^