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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 129, 30 May 1908, Page 7

The lynching record in the United States for 1907 show a reduction of about 20 per cent over that of .the previous year. Fifty-six persons ivere done to death by mobs, and all of. these crimes took pla<«,in the Southern and South-western States., The victim's were fifty-two negroes and four white men.. The annual report of the Education Department of Nova Scotia makee the claim that more pupils per. population attend school in that province than in any other country in the world.. There are now 2465 schools with...100,332. scholars: The province. still has some wild, population, however, for 487 moose, were killed in its forests by; hunters during the open season of 1907_. , Application for a new trial has been made in a somewhat important case in Massachusetts on the ground that two of the jurors have each, an artificial eye. Injury of eyesight -wae one of the points affecting the claim in the suit, and it Jβ said that the case should be dtecided by twelve men with.24 good eye* inatead oi but Z" ■••>';-" ■■■ v : . ~■<"., ;"-.- '.;■■ '-' -~-,.