THAMES SCHOOL OF MINES. Thames, June 29.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 3

THAMES SCHOOL OF MINES. Thames, June 29.

A telegram has been recehcd by Mr A. Bi'uce, Secretary to the School ot Mines, from Mr \V. Fraser, M.H.K., stating that the sum of £200 additional has been placed' on the Estimabo3 toi the Thames School of Mines.

A Home paper states that the Rev. Mr'MacNeill cieatecl a sensation- at the Presbyterian Synod "by telling a story regarding the danger of using fermented wine at the communion table. He said that after preaching a temperance sermon afc the Tabernacle he received a letter from a lady tell- , ing a sad story of an inherited passion for drink. She wrote that' there were fpucoc, five of them — several "brothers'' and .t^Vo sisters, the children of intemperate uar'entb. ' Her sister hnd unfortunately inhetited"the craving, and before 'she was 14 had -taken to drink. The others became converted, and did all in their power to cure their sister ; but it was of no use. The bister at length married comfortably, and children were born. But the craving, for drink - grew greater and greater, and at length she was sent to a home far inebriates, where she stayed a year. '-$he left apparently, said the sister, a chjin'god woman. Soon after, however, her husband caught a severe cold, and before r go^rig out one morning drank a glass of hot' whisky— taking care, however, not to do so in the presence of his wife. Then, as was' his custom, before leaving he kissed 'his wife. At once the fumes ot alcohol passed into her,' and in an hour she was a drunk, and roaring woman. She went from worse to ' worse, and at last left her husband and her children, 1 one of them a cripple, through her druriketfness. The husband died two years ago, a white-haired and brokonhearted man, ' though only 45 years old. " Need I add,** said the sister in her letter, " wHat became of her ? Her story is that of Annie Chapman, one of the recorit Whitechapel victims That was my sifter '!•" Kafcher a pertinent inquiry is made by alNew York shipping paper, which asks : — "Can nothing be done with the ship's cook by' the Maritime Conference ? -The cook is really a personage on fehipboard scarcely second in importance to the master, although his importance, unfortunately, is generally overlooked. That he wields an almost > fatal influence will be admitted, when it is remembered that he serves the stomachs 'of the men, and men are controlled by their stomachs. , (! jA good cook, therefore, is a blessing to a ship ; biit, alas ! most ships' cooks are breeders of dyopepsia and, by c6nsequen.ee incifcers qi bad feeling and slop work." , \ i ,'