GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

FANATICS BUILD AN ARK.,

A : -great stir has-been created in Panama by an outbreak: among a lot of fanatics .who, are rprsp&rjng \ f either end of the world. . ThjB 4 leader of these deluded. people is one Sagundo Sanchez, a native of Pononome, ;who has proclaimed himself the Messiah, andi'has predicted that the vyorld" will shortly be/ destroyed by a deluge, Sanchez and eighty credulous acjher.ents are therefore preparing for; the great inundation. Like Noah, of them are, now building ari v ark, -while others are l?usy collecting pairs of animate of all species found in Mbhat region. The "Messiah" and his •disciples have; armed themselves, and the; Government is taking steps to prevent any trouble.

DIGNITY OF BUSINESS. Dr David, headmaster of Rugby, at the luncheon following the school speeches, recently said that he had lately been shown in striking figures indicating the num-*" ber of men with public school education .and first or eecc-nd-class hon- '> Ours (apart from sons succeeding to- , fathers' businesses) who have, been appointed to" positions'in trading, and • manufacturing n|ms. He had himself up" with a man who had. taken high honoiirs at the ttniversity with a view to his taking a veryj important place on the TRugby teaching staff. At the •, eleventh . hour there came' a .disappointment, as. the man preferred to go into J "oil." The :teri-* dpnoy *' showed very clearly that ..■'practicar'. men now acknowledged . the "practical" value of what used to be called "unpractical" educatoin.

SCOTT'S LAST LETTER. < Everyone will regret tp hear (says "London Opinion") that Sir James Mathew Barrie'a natural pleasure in his new and. well-merited honour has been dimmed by a painful incident. Sir ,James was >an intimte friend of the "late Captain Scott,-, and has been much tipsfet bv tijxef of a letter from the explorer; written after, his companions had perished in the tent beside him. One cannot extract from 'the.' dra-natistthe cpn'tents of that letter, but ot musVhave been one of the most tragio documents ever penned*; and- some day, maybe, it will find its! way to the Brir tish Museim.