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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1591, 13 May 1887, Page 2

At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Athenaeum Committee on Monday evening, we understand no business of great interest was brought up, except the question of handing over the property to the Corporation, and that subject was adjourned till this evening. At last Friday's meeting of the Education Board, Mrs Michael's appointment as mistress of the Queenstown School, was confirmed.—lt was resolved to inform the (Jueenstown Committee that as their school was already over staffed, the services of Mr Percy, pupil teacher, would be dispensed with after three months.—Mr D. Ross was appointed pupil teacher at Invercargill South School—ln reply to the Pembroke School Committee, the Board said they had no objection to that district being annexed to the Otngo Board. It is currently reported (writes the Wellington Post), that the Canterbury Jockey and other leading racing clubs of the colony have been legally advised that whether Mr Carew's recent decision in regard to the totalisatoris upheld or reversed in the Appeal Court, there is a very simple way by which clubs may protect themselves from those who are mean enough to demand their money back after they have fairly lost it. For the present the details of the counter-fnove are kept a secret. During the discussion on the Brennan torpedo in the House of Commons, which resulted in £IIO,OOO to the inveutor, Mr Henniker Hraton stated that the torpedo had five times the range and three times the power of any other torpedo invented. The apparatus was such that it could he guided from the shore to a belligerent vessel several miles distant and no vessel could withstand the shock. Foreign Governments would give this young double the price we were giving. (A Voice: does he not sell it to them, then?) Well, the reason was simple. It was greatly to his credit that in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations lie still remains an Englishman. (A Voice :He is an Irishman.) Well, lie miyht have been a Russian a Prussian, or a Scotchman, but he still remains an English-Australian. His father, he believed, was a clergyman. At any rate, he, in the most loyal manner, gave his invention to England. As to its value, it is well known that the Whitehead Torpedo Company were making £BO,OIO a year, and as this was a greater and more destructive weapon, tha Government had made a good bargain.