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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 161, 4 February 1902, Page 3

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TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Nuxt month an important conference wi’ll be hnltl in connection with tech-i ui'cfti education. The Canterbury} Industrial Association have recently been taking st<pj to push the movenient, and have undo arrangements lor calling a number ot delegates to-, gather from municipal, educational, commercial, and other bodies including, the Trades and Labour Council, as well 1 as members of Parliament. Two; motions will'be submitted to the con- 1 ference. .One of them will urge that 1 the .industrial efficiency of the colony should -be developed to the highest; degree, acid the other that a broader; system of technical/ education in Can-1 terbury is ’ s A/BOJSR SPY’S OPINION. | ! ' -IfeTr Hales tells the story of a smatt* ( good-looking married woman of about thirty years of age Who acted as a! Boer spy. She was married to a Bus- j siao: civil engineer resident at Johan-1 nesburg, and at the outbreak of the! war the slim Transvaalera sent ' herj over the border labelled M dangerous." i She established herself at Cape Town,; andsOon managed.to Attract infonna- 1 lion from impressionable English; officers. Says Mr Hales J—' w When | Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum arrived 1 in Africa she vent to meet him, for; she knew that if she could get inside | his secrets she -could learn all things.; She made it hpr business to cornel casualty in contact with the Egyptian: Sphinx. She ran her eyes over the; tall, gaunt figure, the rugged, ugly face.; She looked into the prominent, all- , seeing eyes, and knew at a glance that : she was to face withamagnetisca! Wronger than her own, and nothing! would induce her to go near him I again. < That is Hhe most •daftgerout man.in Britain,' she said/ * I feel as; ifl were within the shadow of death: When Xam hem him. He is a man for inen to conquarv.No Woman can reach him to use him ; he would read me like an openbookin an hour, and £ believe he would shoot tne as he wouW’a Kaffir if be caught me redhanded. No wonder he' conquered Egypt. .1 think bn -wottfd;.«onqjie» in 'BSp** 1 : ;V 5 ' ?! di », '*'*■