GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 June 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

"All rat!" is the terse war in w.iich Mr Itockefellcr, through his secretary, describes the lvpoi'i that lie had plann'd 10 give €10,0(10,000 for a fnml In modernise and Christianise China.

A gang of burglars mounded a falßo iijarm of lire in Twenty-Sixth street, Xew York, and while tile brigade was answering it they robbed the lcii fire station of watches, clotliin;.'.. and a typewriter.

The bell from a locomotive whica burst in the Southern l'acllie railway at' Galveston, Texas, crashed lhron;,'h the roof of a house a quarter of a mile away and demolished a table at which the family was at breakfast. There have been many definitions of democracy, and if one given by Professor David Starr Jordan at the Sydney University recently is not. accepted by the Socialist and rabid thinkers, it wiil (says the Sydney Dailv Telegraph) receive from others careful consideration, coming from such an eminent authority on tducation and its possibilities. The professor claimed that democracy meant opportunity—opportunity for the mm to find work. It meant also that thoj things to lie done should find the man: that could do them, and it was just as, important fliat the thing should be done | by the man that could do it as tint lie. should fui.l the thing be could do. Democracy diil not mean equality, neither : cqualiiy of property, ability, beer, enndy, pie, enjoyments nor social standing. It meant equality before the l'.w; a fair start, a generous education "or every child in the Commonwealth, and after that only fair play is a fair competition. Amidst the millions of sheep that pass through the Homebush (Sydney) fat stock saleyards in the course of a few years, there is an occasional freak, and the most remarkable of its kind was seen a few weeks ago, when a merino with four horns was penned. The animal presented a most peculiar appearance, and was more Suitable for a zoo or garden o£ varieties than a fat stock market (says the Sydney Morning Herald). Ami, judging by the price realised, it may find its way to some show place before it reaches the slaughter yard. Two horns sprang upwards from the head, not unlike the horns of an Ayrshire, while the other two twisted down, somewhat after the fashion of a boar's tusks. Spirited competition took the price up to £3, at which it svis knocked down to a suburban butcher: in the ordinary course of things its price would have been about Ifis.