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Temuka Leader, Issue 2711, 13 September 1894, Page 3

A Witty Introduction.— At a recent meting of the Wellington Benevolen 1 Instition Trustee a sturdy, handsome little boy was handed in, together with the following letter“ My name is —I am destitute. My father married-my mother for her money, spent it all, ordered me out into the world against my will, and now leaves us both to starve. My mother has taken service to support us, but having gone through so much worry and starvation her health is broken completely, and she has been obliged to leave one place after another. She left her last place on ' nesday with 10s; 8s she paid for • keep, and herewith I be" J ' • ”? y wee ,f ® last 2s and mw'*' hand you her hardly an« ’ ®*y mother has peo” 1 j clothes and only what food .j/ie are kind enough to give her. She is now sleeping behind the-door Of a registry office, waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. She has parted with everything except her 'Scotch pride’; she has no idea that somebody is acting the part of ‘ Miriam ’ for me, and is worrying her heart out as to what is to become of me. I believe she would starve rather than apply toyou for relief, but as lam only years old lam not yet educated up to this refinement of feeling and I am not at all particular as to who feeds me so long as I am fed.” The trustees decided that as the boy was in capable hands, they would allow for his present relief, and do nothing further until his mother had been interviewed. There aro over half a nrllion tele" phones in uss in the United States. The Queen will go on a fortnight’s cruise on the west coast of Scotland in September, accompanied by her daughters, Princess Henry of JSatteuberg and the Marchioness of Lome. Researches in botany tend to show that plants have a certain form of intelligence, and are as able at least to exert voluntary power as certain lowly organised animals. One proof of this is tho plants’ avoidance of abstacles placed artificially in their way by bonding aside before touching.