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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7915, 1 October 1909, Page 4

Before a boat could reach a buljocsfc that had fallen from a cattle steamer at Fremantle, 20 sharks had carried it off piece-meal.

According to the report of the Kent Education Committee 140 schools m th< county have taken, up the.scheme of savingbanks. and m all now .there arc 7500 scholars who are members, with savings amounting to £3700.

There are symptoms of a decided revival of Quakerism m England. During the past year no fewer than 500 new members have been enrolled. £H >"/^t- :*"**«— •%•■■•';" *sffl&ip An illiterate woman of 80 living at Luxton (England) is learning to write because when she went to draw her first old age pension instalment she was unable even to sign her own name to the form.

A Mortain Mains woman, the wife of a well-known settler there, recently put down a sitting of 14 duck eggs'; 12 ducklings were the result.' Of the dozen (says the Wyndham Farmer), 10 were normally-developed birds, the eleventh, was hatched with four legs and the twelfth with three distinct bills.