GENERAL NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

A HKNKYOLEXT KARL

. Tho "West. iuins..ir Gazuite," recaiia incidents in the of the Kevt:;ii..<: bord Shaftslrury, uu tho s*cthe tiventy-sioventli unni- \ i'; • a: d'.':>th. Lord Sftaft-i:-

burv .vu., ft>r t!:iri.y-s.>von man ohe .I?agg«vj School Union. He j mail whose piety took an i.j practical turn. "Poor do;;; t\.;htre;i,'' he o.'jciaimed. after lx.'ttnjit:', i. tale c;i hoc from .some destitute i'.;ikiren , "what can we do for them ; A local iMiiiorintondont replied rather unctuou.-.iy that che Lord would provide, tor all their nerds. "Yes," said the uojd Karl, sharply, "Ho will, Imt" they must have somefood directly." He then drove home and sent irom Grosser,or touaro enough soup to feed tour hundred, and distributed 10,000 basins of soup that winter. Another aspect of him is recalled by a, oharaetoristJie hbory of Lord BciconsJiold, who had been to visit in the country. "You have given me," said Dizzy, "tho privilege of seeing 'one of the most impressive, of all spectacles. a great English noble living in patriarchal state in his own hercdita>'v halls."

FKMfXfHM IX SOUTH AMERICA

.It sowus t-mt feminism encounters

as many ob(?:ables in the New World i as in tlie Old (remarks the "West- J minster Gazette".). T'tie students of ; tho University of Monte Video have decided in a body to boycott the lec- . tares of Mile. Coltilde Luisi, who has been recently appointed to the Chair j of 1-toman Law in the University; and ' it appears probable that tho Urug- j uayan authorities will -have to sue- ; cumb to til's passive resistance. Mile. 1 Luisi enjoys a- distinction that is per- 1 haps unique. She is probably tho only ; woman ever attached to a legation asi its official legal advisor, an office which she held in Paris. She is Hie daughter of an Italian publicist who. has long made his home in< v Uruguny; her thesis for her doctorate of law way among the most brilliant; ever submitted to tho. University of Monte Video; she i,s an acknowledged ex-port-in her subject, and yet the men .students will have nothing to do witn ' l.er lectures. The way of feminism !<? .mirely hard.

AX KCCKXTIiIC ARCHDEACON. ;

Archdeacon Colley, whose death occurred recently, on notoriety outside the Church of England as a champion of .spiritualism (says tho "Westminster Gazette"). Eight years ago the Arch.deacon had hiy coffin made and stored in the music-room of the rectory. In 1001 he made a will bequeathing his body to the University of Birmingham for dissection —"to be cut up in the interests of anatomical and surgical science when I have.done with it." wrote to the Dean of faculty of Medicine stating the :n rangeiuents he had made. The Dean was quite equal to the occasion. In his reply to tho Archdeacon lie said "I think you have perfectly understood afl that we require. When your body is forwarded you might direct that a letter be sent in advance to the secretary of the Dean of the Faculty, informing him of its coining. The body s>hou!d be sent to the same address.' I believe you understood that you are expected to pay all expenses. We will be quite sure that you are dead. .... . Trusting that you are. quite well." The Dean's suggestion about the expends is a decidedly humorous toucTi.

THE TOLL OF THE JUNGLE. Statistres published by the Government. of India throw light ol a startling nature on the. extent of the toll of lives which falls yearly to the denizen?' of the jungle. In Bengal during If) I] no less than 385 people were killed by tigers. Again, in the United Provinces the deaths were as many again as in 1910, a single man-eater in the Kuniaon Division, accounting for this extraordinary rise. A reward of Rs. nOO was offered for hif.' destruction, and ho was shot early in the present year. In the Central Provinces, on the other hand, the. deaths were only fourty-four. a* against an annual average of eighty, and there can be no doubt that this decrease was due- to the steady kill-ing-off of' maneaters (observed the "Westminster Gazette"). Altogether 19-17 persons were killed by wild animals and 21,264 by snakes, the figures for 1910 being 2382 and 22,478 respectively. Tho number of cattle killed by wild animal 9 was 91,709, against 93.070, and by snakes .10,533, as against 10,990. The total mortality amongst human beings caused hy snake bites rose from 22,478 to 24,"201, and in this total JJengal heads the list with 9844: deaths. The number of deaths among cattle attributed to j snake-bite is returned as 10,533. as compared with 10,990 in 1910.