NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10355, 2 May 1911, Page 4

NEWSY PARS.

An Auckland telegi Jain states that John Milton ; - resident of Onehunga., cub his throat four days ago, and since has-been, wandlering' lialfdementetT. was admitted" to the Auckland 'Hospital. this morning. His condition i. critical..

"■What, is the (blest, place in whicJi tokeiep milfc fresh in hot weather " asked thd teacher* of a- deftain town school shod. "Pfeasie, - teacher, in

the aow," ansv.'eredl the small boy, who had bieien in the country for his holiday's.

The taking of the census) on the goldfields Avias not without its humor, as -vteiry often is. the case in. these matters. The hejbd of the family (a male) in one- jiapex*, descaibteid his oceupatiofn as "domeistio duties)." Per'baps the harem skii* has made its Way into this pairticsulair household.

The Govemment.has purohasied for dose-r settlement the property In

Sbuth Oanterixiry knowii as Slier-wood-Do-wtoa. The property, which: :i's about 20 miles from Fairlie,. consists of-12',000 acires of ■ freehold • and sfrnie 50,000 actres.of leasehold 1 land. The purchase firice) is in the neisrhbburhoodl of £70,000.

Remarkiaible evidbada was givten j ait the Bendigo Police Court on Mlardi 2lst, when Parget Singh, a) Hindoo, was charged with threateuing to "rip up" Oonstaibie Howe with a knife. 11l was stated tha* the oonsitaiblo w'emt sto quell a 1 di'sitbrbancie at a house ocoupiedl by Hindoos and [ tiwio EbgilisJi women, motther and daug]itiei% and Hhie laltlter's) two^ chil-j dren. The young! Woiman, it was said, had Ibban soldi when she was I<L to Pairgeti fiSngli,' who married her, hub aftferwardEl sold hier to an-' other 1 ~ Hindoo, by whom! she had. two children. The girl's mother was now livijngl ■>.\i'th! Singh'. Defendaait Was fined 40a, with ctosts -

"Dominid," in the Hfenald, wlrites wisely thus: "I seel tliaf. Pi-ofessor Jai'man lias resigned his chair at the Skshool of Mnes. (Bel. has tried his level biest to 1 get the sicthool- • estab!lished on a good biasis:, andl it is no fault of his the necessary students haive not offered themselves. Indeed. h& must have Very good forensic) abilitieg in ordler to get the Minister's sanction for siurih grants for equipment as have been obtained. Other/ perhaps moire deserving 1, institutions find it hard enough to get grants, and I'there can be) no blame' put on the Lick of apparatus. The fact is, Auckland dloes jipti want a School of Mines. There is no pall for One; the few studeinta offering can get what thley vant elseiwherte in tlie Dtominion, or, ibeittett* still, in America or the Old World. Why not wisely reicognisle tins, and let the chair la-psei? The engtimeering section seema; to bia filling a! want, and a« a part of the 1 applied mathemailics, macihanicß, ?i,d pliysics cioutws, might well go on a"sl at present, -but the 1 mining proper should, in the opinion of." most peiople wto have thoiught about th!fl matter, be dropped"