THE RECENT STORM.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 50, 27 August 1904, Page 2

THE RECENT STORM.

TELEOWAPH OFFICE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. [BY XEXEORArH-WIUtSS ASgQOIATWK.] WESTPOKT, 26th August. Last night lightning struck and set fire to the Lyell teleuraph office. The instruments were smashed to pieces, and the office was considerably dtuutvged The postmaster, Mr. Potter, rode into Reeiton to report and return with fresh instruments. All telegraphic communication with othw parts of tho colony off the coa«t has been severed owing to tho oocurrence.

The average agent which children pass the sixth standard is stated in the Education report to be of importance in view of the discussion that is taking place with respect to the age linjit (14 years) imposed by $he regulations for free adnussion to secondary scliools. La«t year tho average age for passing this standard ranged from 13 years and six months in Auckland to 14 years and 2 months in Marlboraugh, the average for tho colony being 13 years and 10 months, so that the Minister is led to infer that tho 14 years' restriction i& not likely to interfere wjth. % the promotion and success of competent children. "Eojjh hour' that a female shop asaiatoft£ \Vorks at night is worse on lier. than three in the daytime." This Is the npinjon of the local Inspector of Factories, who rojjarda the Into night as a barbarous institution, and who hopes lll'at T those firrifs and shops which have ol<>se<l on Saturday will b.e rewarded by the -Legislature coming to their-assist-ance <oind making Saturday- a colonial half-holidayi with no late ttight. The beach, for wile® south of Timnru— and probably nil the way to Oaninru or further — b«nrs broad whitoy-brown bands of dead nscidians, or sUlked toi-squirbs. These ourioua vegetable-*nima4* must grow in enormous profusion somewhere in the South, to have furni»h«d such a qunntity of victims to recent storm*. Those washed un at Timaru, »ys the Hernid, hsre evidently grown in bunches on a bottom of qnartt gravel, a* mony q/ the Jb.un«he« have brought along pebble* embedded among their root fibres.' The oup which a well-wisher of the Wellington Rowinjr Club hai pre*ented as a trophy for a handicap sculling race is of solid silver, and stands on an ebony ba«e. It i* one of the beat trophies wh,ioh the olub hn» received for iome years, and at the request of the donor it is to bo known as "The Admiral Cup." The conditions upon which it hns been given art that It it not to becomo the •btolute property of any member until he has won it twice in succosiion or three times at interval*. The oup is now on exhibition in the window of Messrs. Bloxa-m and M'Leod's shop, Willis-street. For ohildron'* hacking cough at night take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, It 6a and 2» 6d.— Adtfc.

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