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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 4

A number of Coromandel residents met last night to consider tbe best method to help the widow and family of the late Alfred Chapman, one of the crew of the fishing boat Zealandia, which was wrecked some days ago at Amodeo Bay. A concert and the circulation of subscription lists were decided upon, and' committees were appointed to arrange the necessary details. Those present at the meeting subscribed the sum of £36 on the spot, ' '

The study of Goloaial Government and questions of Imperial _cqjo_ta_ee are the objects of the tour of the. Empire which, is being made by Dr. Stephen. Leacock, Professor of Political Science at the McGill University, Montreal. Dr. Leacock arrived in Wellington yesterday, and remains for about six weeks in New Zealand, going on to Australia, and conduding his tour in South Africa. He has already won distinction as an author, and on his return intends to embody his views and observations in books on "The Outer Empire." A standard Canadian work, "Baldwin and La Fontaine," was written by Dr. Leacock, and deals with the two men who held the first joint English and French Premiership of the country. While in West, Australia, the ■professor remarked to an interviewer that he found on all sides a feeling of sincere regret at having entered the Federation, which was. generally considered to be premature. Asked about •Professor Rutherford, "Dr. Leacock said he had worked with him for six years at the McGill University, and spoke of him as the LoTd Kelvin of the coming generation. Several of the big American Universities had attempted to secure his services, but without avail, and he was now in Manchester. In the last ten years the English had made great strides in physical science, and now the best opportunities for its studies and the leading exponents were to be found in England

Various are the reasons advanced by parents when called upon to explain why they have failed to comply with the Act providing free education for the rising generation. " Mary is very delicate," "Johnny strained his ankle badly the last time he played l football," " The baby requires a nurse," and "Michael has really become quite unmanageable of late." "Better get Michael committed to an industrial school," suggests the Court. " Not for worlds; he's the best natured, best mannered, and generally most perfect boy in the world, but he has a rooted objection to schoolbooks." But, however the balance of sympathy may secretly be with erring Michael's youthful aversion, his forbear has to pay up, the account to be probably rendered to the hopeful at a subsequent sitting of the domestic court, Mr. Small, truant officer, obtained convictions this morning against a number of parents for failing to send their children to school, the . fines ranging from 2/ to £3 10/, and costs; and amounting in all to about £10.

Our Cambridge correspondent telegraphs that the annual amount paid to suppliers, including bonuses, by the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Co., has grown from £6100 during 1901-2 to £32,610 for 1906-7. The past season was an allround record. The company has now a surplus of £3659.

At the Native Land Court in Gisborne yesterday the portrait of Sir Donald McLean was formally unveiled by the assessor, Hapi Kini ha, who said a great many benefits had been bestowed on the native race by Sir Donald McLean. Several of the natives present spoke, special reference being made to Sir Donald's magnanimity in returning, after the administering of proper punishment and peace being made, the lands of those who had been so misguided as to take up arms against the Government,

A meeting will be held in Dunedin next week to form the Otago Trawling Company, and to make arrangements for procuring an up-to-date trawler, which is expected to cost about £10,000. The capital of the' company will be. £12,000, half of which has-already'been subscribed It is intended to establish markets at various towns along the coast.

A Chinaman named Lee, residing at Martinborough, has been adjudicated a bankrupt, with liabilities of over £1000, and an estimated deficiency of £300. He attributes his bankruptcy mainly to an unprofitable partnership with a Maori. He began business two years ago with a capital of £28.

According to the "Labpur Journal" for July, 1907, the number of men on the railways in the province of Auckland is as follows: Kawakawa-Grahamtown 51, Helensville northwards 131, GisborneRotorua 76, North Island Main Trunk 1877.

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