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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 126, 31 May 1910, Page 6

Engineer - Lieutenant Leather, of H.M.S. Pioneer, and Captain Ryley and Mr. Jenkinson, master and chief engineer of the Papanui, which was recently sold at Melbourne, will be passengers for London by the Tongariro to-morrow. The Minister for Education told an AucKland Herald representative on Saturday that he was not in favour of acceding to the request of the Salvation Army that its officers should deliver lectures on the evils of smoking and gambling in the public schools. 'J.he whole of "the work during school hours, thought Mr. Fowlds, should be done by the teachers, who could denl with the subjects mentioned when conducting classes on hygieno and related branches cf instruction. He did not think that, from the point of view of education, any outsiders should go into the school during school hours. "Every, criminal is a fool," said his Honour the Chief Justice, in weighing the evidence relating to a charge of incendiarism heard in the Supremo Court yesterday. "He may be a clever man," lie added, "but in the end he is a fool, because he does what harms him. He never gets any benefit out of it. He may get some temporary gain — he may never be found out— but, in the end, there is always what the Greeks call Nemesis — something which follows up the crime, which, whether the person suffers afterwards or not, always reaches him. If our people would only realise that there is no gain from wrongdoing, there would ba no crime committed at all in the country." The boy immigrants who arrived at Melbourne by tho Osterley last week from England staled that the Central Immigration Board in London, the organiser of which is Rev. R. G. Gwynne, led them to believe that they would receive 10s and 15s a week, with board and lodging, if they went on to Victorian farms. They expressed great disappointment when they learned that they would have to start at 5s a week and found. In reply to a question as to whether he approved of the Church Army proposal to send boy immigrants to Australia, Mr. Batchelor (Minister for External Affairs) said that he had just received a copy of the London Daily Chronicle of 15th April, in which o. plan was outlined for the despatch of 5000 lads to Australia. He knew nothing officially of this matter, but was looking into the details of the schema as expounded in the newspaper. Ht> understood that the boys who had arrived by the Osterley on Monday wer» not likely to be a charge on the State. Employment, he understood, was available ior them, although the allowances they were to receive, as stated in the press, seemed to him inadequate. A curious theory about the functions of the pituitary body, propounded by a medical writer of Philadelphia, was explained by the Rev. M. Walker in his lecture at the Masonic Hall last night. According to this latest attempt to fathom the "abysmal deeps of personality," the pituitary body — a email glandular mass at the basis of the cerebrum — and not the grey matter in the convolutions and lobes of the cerebrum itself, is the seat of the intellectual and renectivo faculties. The Philadelphia physician ir, reputed to have experimented with animals to prove that removal of the front lobes of the brain did not impair consciousness or the thinking powers. He used drug 3to stimulate the action of the pituitary, which is credited with the governing of the thyroid gland in tho neck. This latter is said to manufacture from the blood a secretion the special purpose of which i» to combat disease; hence the Philadelphian argument resolved itself into a plea for the use of drugs in cases of disease. Such a course was not necessary ux the interests of good health, declared the lecturer, and a sound ment?l science could well dispense with the aid of suds useless, and in the end deleterious, stimulants to ordinary function. In an article on Halley's comet, a contributor U> The Post recently, discussing the possibility of tho earth's collision with the head of a comet— a buffbear often raised by fictionists and writers of popular science books— said that something of the kind had at some timo occurred, and mentioned that there were evidences of a tremendous collision of the kind ages ago in a desert in Arizona ; it statement questioned by a sceptical co--respondent. It was mentioned that the meteor, and not the earth, came off sec-ond-best. Last night, at the meeting of the Philosophical Society, Mr. Hamilton gave a summary of the newly-published report of a scientific commission which has been engaged for several years in investigating the subject. The investigators found a hole resembling a crater, which was manifestly not volcanic. The hole was three-quarters of a mile in diameter, and three or four hundred feet deep, and the interior, which was of the j ordinary rock of the district, was fused ! and vitrified by intense heat. Tho phenomenon was unique and puzzling, but a clue was found in numerous fragments of meteoric iron distributed in the vicinity. The commission reported that the only adequate cause was the collision with some extra-terrestrial body which had been entirely dissipated by the heat generated by its friction in its pas&age through the atmosphere, and its impact with the earth. The largest meteorites known, Mr. Hamilton added, had not penetrated the earth to a greater depth than sixteen feet, so- one might form some notion of the shock which Arizona had undergone at some period in the past. The mission upon which the senior deputation secretary of the Barnardo Homes embarked two years ago has now reached its close, and Rev. W. J. Mayers, with Mrs. Mayers and Mr. H. Aaron, sailed for England in the Orvieto on 20th May. Mr. Mayers's journeyings have taken him into all the States of the Commonwealth, and from the bouth to the north of New Zealand. Openings have been found for all the ten lads who made the tour. Six are settled in New Zealand, two in Tasmania, one in Melbourne, and one in Perth, Western Australia. The boys will not leave the control of the Homes empty-handed. In addition to the great privilege and manifold advantages ot the tour itself, each lad finds himself iv possession of a very decent banking account. A Bible and a silver English lever watch are the gifts of tho hon. director, Mr. Baker. The hon. treasurer adds a silver chain, nnd Mr. and Mrs. Mayers a useful travelling-bag. Each boy is also provided with a suitable outfit of clothing, etc. Mr. Mayers is confident that the boys .will give a good account of themselves, and bo a credit to the institution to which they owe co much. The sum of £17,500 ha." resulted from tho various collections, personal gifts, and admission to meeting*, and as the hon. treasurer (Mr. Howaid Williams) has arranged that most of the expenses of tho tour shall not fall upon tho ordinary funds, the bulk of this amount will be expended upon the "Australasian" hospital to be built in memory of Dr. Barnardo in the Girls' Village Home, near Ilford, Jitsex. Jlr. Mayeie intends, on his return to England, to lecture on his tour, and says "thai "lit 1 may be depended upon as a good living advertisement of the beauties of Australia's scenery, the charms of her climate, the prosperity of her States, and the wondrous hospitality of her people." His verdict on Australia's three chief cities is that: "Sydney is a place to admirt, Melbourne to wonder at, and Adelaide to love." To-morrow, Wednesday, being the first Wednesday in the month, there will be the usual clearance of remnants at our store. — Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advt.