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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1448, 4 August 1883, Page 4

The teachers at the school for the sons of Japanese nobles in Tokio appear; to have hit upon a notabje method: .of teaching physical geography. In the court behind the school building is'a physical map of the' country, about three or four hundred feet: long, It is made of turf and rock, and is bordered with pebbles, which look at a ; little' distance much like water.; Every inlet, river, and .mountain is .reproduced in this model with a 'fidelity' to detail which is wonderful. Latitude and longtitude are indicated; by. telograjih' wires, and tablets show the the.post tion of the cities. Ingenious-devices are employed in illustrating-,botanical studies also. For example,,the pine is illustrated by a picture showing the cone, leaf, and dissected flower,- feet in a frame which shows, the,bark and longtitudinal and transverse sections of the wood. ■.'"'-

A. gracious' act in connection with the offipers of the Salvation. Army in Dunedin has been broitght:under oii.r notice (says the Saturday Advertiser). It will be 'remombered that; young Riordan and three other larrikins were recently fined for creating a disturbance in connection with the'.-Army/on a Sunday night, and' failing ,pajme|nt they had to undergo various -teriusjof imprisonment.-LThe friends'of «jl the prisoners except .Riordan r tines, but Riordan,commenced:tPiserve his sentence of three months'imprisonment with hard labor. On~Monday last« Captain" Burford, of the Salvation Army, paid Rioidan's fine (£10), and so released him from the custody of the Governor of the Dunedin Gaol, Giordan's friends have undertaken to repay tlie amount.