CADETS IN CAMP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 138, 10 December 1908, Page 8

CADETS IN CAMP.

Yesterday the 3rd Wellington Battalion Public School Cadets, comprising Weraroa, Levin District High School, Johnsonville, Petono District Iligh School I. and 11., and Hutt District High School corps, arrived at Johnsonville by train from their respective centres, and on arrival of the camp equipment at 1.30 proceeded to pitch tents, erect cook house, etc. By 2.30 all wasi snug and comfortable. Major G-. M. Burlinson is in command with Captain Bethune, Adjutant, and Mr. A. L Bennet, quartermaster. The officers of tho Woraroa corps aic Captain Eggelton and Lieutenant Watt ; Levm corps, Captain Burns, Liuutenant Wood • Johnsonville, Captain Bethuue, Lieutenant Bowles ; Petone No. 1, Captain Lynskey ; Petone Xo. 2, Captain i Bcdingneld; llutt, Captain Ballachey. Dr. Kabertson, of JohnFonvillo, has kindly consented to act as honoraiy medical officer. The routine, of the camp is:— Route 6 a.m., wash and company drill; breakfast, 7.30; commanding officer's parade, 10 ; dinner, 12.30 -,_ parade, 2.30 ; t S a, 5.30; first post, 8.oO ; second post, 9; lights out, 9.10 p.m. During the week battalion work m attack and defence will be carried out. On Saturday afternoon sports will be held. On 'Sunday there will be a church parade in tho morning, and in the afternoon the battalion, band will assist at "Hospital Sunday" at Johnsonville. On Tuesday evening a concert will be held in the Johnsonville Town Hall. Tents will be struck on Wednesday, and the various | units return by the afternoon trains. i __ . _ I

Cable advice has been received (.hat J the Rev. Thomas Perkins, of London, i has been appointed to the pastorate of the Congregational Church at St. Clair, I says a Dunedin Press Association telegram. The body of the late Drummer W. A. ! Kills, of the Wellington Battalion Band, ■was buried at Karori this afternoon with military honours. The coffin,"which was co\eied with the Union Jack, was borne on a gun-carriage escorted by a party of the Permanent Artillery, which fired a volley over the grave. The Battalion Band and representatives cf various corps also attended the funeral. The Wellington Choral Society, which is making its last appearance for tho 1903 season at the Town Hall on Tues- [ day next, is taking upon itself a new venture in the form of carol singing. A dozen Christmas carols have been received from England, and this will be the first occasion on which a musical soI ciety has so ventured. The idea will be a novelty, and should prove very attractive. The programme will bo "interspersed with a few other items. "Starving city schools"' was the burden of a protest by Mr. W. Allan, at the meeting of the Wellington Education Board this afternoon. The question of ground improvements at the Terrace School was before the board, ahd Mr. Allan thought they should erect outbuildings in brick, not in .vood, and' make a permanent job. City schools had been too much neglected in the past, and accommodation should be provided on a similar scale at the Terrace as»aL other schools of the like nature. S^F Allan then gave notice of motion ' that Ihe work should be executed in brick. The concert and distribution of prizes [ in connection with St. Mary's Convent High School will be held this eveening ! at 8 o'clock in the Sydney-street Schoolroom. Mr. E. W. Payton, Director of the Elam School of Art, Auckland, has an interesting collection of pictures on view at M'Gregor Wright and Company's gallery, Lainbton-quay. There arc some 50 water and oil colours and tho artist has gone for inspiration "for the most part to the East Coast of Auckland and Ie the Rolorua district. His studies of the New Zealand bush are few but very striking, notably of the gorgeous pokutukawa. The collection is one of great art interest. Children in the State schools of the Wellington District are to have regular instruction in tho culinary art. The Education Board this afternoon decided to engage a permanent instructor in at a salary of £100 a year. All vacancies in the Wellington District schools filled in January next carry with them salaries according to the Amended Act. The matter was de-* cided by the Wellington Education Board this afternoon. : Miss Jenny Luke and her pupils gave n successful entertainment before a crowded audience at the Primitive Methodist Club, Webb-street, on Tuesday evening. Songs were contributed by Miss M'Carthy, a vocal trio by M. Ward, D. Nieholls, and C. Clark, Misses B. Luke and Samson recited, and piano soli were rendered by Misses Mabel Fulton, Vera Lindberg, Eunice Longton, Daisy Todd, May Farquhar, Hilda Snelling, and Mowatt. The following took part either in pianoforte duets or trios : Misses Vera and Elm Lindberg, Gladys Dawson, Dorrie Hook, M'Cartby, M. Luke, G. and M. Evans,- and D. Scott. A comedietta was acted by Mr. and Miss Samson, and a dialogue was given byseveral girls. At a meeting of the Wellington Col- i lege Governors to-day, the following governor's scholarships were awarded :—: — Senior—Ethel Dulf, Dorothy Huston, Irene Webb, Esna North; Junior—Priscilla Miller and Dorothy Edmundson. Winifred Cathie was reported as being out of the Girls' College. The governors also awarded the following scholarships to scholars at the boys' institution .-—Rhodes, £20, A. H. Robinson ,' Moore, £20, G. H. Robertson; Campbell, £15, A. B. Castle; Turnbull, £10, A. 11. Biss; Levin Science, S. M..Corkill; Levin Languages, H. P. Isaac. Professor Renon, a distinguished membei of the Paris Medical Faculty, has jusfc made an interesting confession relating how he was cured of stuttering. He was such an inveterate stammerer that one day at the Gare dv Nord, after keeping an impatient crowd waiting at the booking-office while he vainly tried to pronounce the name of the station Babeuf, he was finally obliged to write his destination on a piece of paper and hand it to "the booking-clerk. While on duty in the Paris hospitals he was occasionally obliged to order the use of .phenacetin, but he could never pronounce that word, so solved the difficulty by prescribing another medicine with a name easier to pronounce. After he had been appointed professor he was obliged to assist at the examination of medical students, and, afraid of stuttering while Interrogating the candidates, he determined to get rid of his infirm ity. He put himself in the hands of a specialist, who made him promise not to utter a single word for a week. For eight days he wrote down everything he wanted, and when he met friends in the street who wished to speak with him he showed them a card on which was written, "I am following treatment for stuttering, nnd am obliged to remain dunsb for eight days." After a week's breathing lessons, voice exercises, and gymnastics of the lips, he was allowed to speak very slowly, pronouncing each syllable separately. The treatment lasted over a year, but the professor has seldom had any difficulty since, and is now in much lequest as a popular lecturer all over France.