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GENERAL NEWS

RURAL LOGIC. Dorset Education Committoe negatived a proposal to supply certain of ■their girls' .schools with sewing machines, one. objection being that if they were provided, mode] motor-cars would soon be wanted by the. boys. QUASHED. When a West Ham councillor asked why i\ magistrate's order for the demolition of uninhabitable houses! had been quashed by the. Local Government Board, he was told that after' ths order was obtained, tho houses fell down. The owner was then able to satisfy the .Board that no houses existed to which the order could apply, and it was quashed. NO HALF MEASURES THEIIE. AVe owe to Lady Mary Montagu a |lively picture of politics in Adrianople 200 year? ago. "Here," she says, "is indeed a much greater appearance of ; subjection than among us. A Minisj ter of State is not spoken to but upon i tho knee; should a reflection on his conduct be dropped in a, coffeehouse I (for they have spies everywhere) tho I house would be raised to the ground, and perhaps the whole company put |to the torture. No huxzaing mohs, senwloss pamphlets, and tavern disputes about politics. None of our iharmless calling names; hut when a Minister here displeases the people, in hours'.time he is dragged even f'-on. his master's arm**. Thev cut off hourly and feet and throw Mieni before tlie rydaee orate- with all the resnect in the world." FATAL THOUGHTLESSXESS.

An extraordinary story of tho cause of an explosion, resulting in the toss of thro lives, was told at a Home Office, inquiry at London a few weeks agn. The explosion occurxed at South Moor, Durham. A witness named Pickersgill said Sarah Oxley, ono of th-j injured, wi\® brought to his house. He asked her how the explosion' occurred. She replied: "I was carrying some gunpowder to my father from the pantry when I dropped a bobben on the floor and it broke. My father picked up the spare pieces and put them into the box, and the small jpieccy he swept up with his hands Land threw them into the fire. They I flew out, and -set Ire to the other powder lying on the floor." Tli oeoroner, in summing up, agreed with that explanation of the accident, and criticised the action of the deceased miner. Robert Eairgrieve Oxley, who, he said, that within four feet of the fire with the powder in front of lum, a tiling no careful or thoughtful man would do. A verdict of accidental death was returned. LA.h<.«.i!iM i';v..ajjl O.N liJ-'ioOK-U. ,

and ysU, ui the iiljrary of tno lintisJi Museum muuuon 'is mauo (..vritois a correspondent in a London paper) oi tii.) mo.-.it e.v&iao.iunmry vnac has ever been known in tho world's history. The parties v.ero a Scotch weaver and his wile (not wives), who Mveie the father and mother of ssixtyJ two children. Tho majority of ihe offspring of this prolific pair were, hoys. Exactly how many is not known, for tho .record mentions tljfe fact that forty-six of tho malo children lived to reach manhood's estate, and only four of the daughters lived to bo grown-up I women Thirty-nine of the sons were ! stiil living- in the year 1630, the niajorJ ity oF them living in and about Neu-eastle-on-Tyne. It is recorded in one oF the old histories of Newcastle that "a certy.no' gentleman of large estaytes" rode "thirty-and-threo mile? heyond the Tyne to prove this wonderful story." Tt is further related that Sir J. Bowers adopted ten of the sons, and three other "landed gentlemen" took ten each. The remaining memhers of this extraordinary Family wero brought up by the parents. "Landed gentlemen," sayji "Woman's Life in London," "are not now so fond of collecting boys. All their time is required for collecting rents."

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 7

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GENERAL NEWS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 7

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