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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 162, 16 July 1907, Page 6

" There is too much of this pumping of Government pap into the mouths of our youths; they get too inflated to take their coats off to help in the development of the country. There is too much of this eduoation; it's all cram, cram, cram." —Or Whinray at Gisborne Borough Council meeting. Instructions have been given to all State zoological gardens in America that animals in future are not to be named " Teddy." une-third of all the American dogs are called Teddy, while the majority of bears, elephants, tigers, sea lions, and panthers throughout the United States bear the same name. In 1849 giving a receipt for any sum over £10 was not quite so easy as it is now, when the affixing of a penny stamp is all that is necessary to satisfy the Stamp Act. In 1849 a receipt had to be taken to the Stamp Office and impressed with a die stamp, for which a charge of sixpence was made. A receipt for the undertaker's charge for one of the earliest funerals in Wellington, that of a lady, wife of a Government official, has been shown to us, says a contemporary. The charge was 4514 6s 6d, and the reoeipt is impressed as above. The following entries have been received up to date for the Budge Whifcivorth Road Race, which is fixed for the Slat inst., irrespective of weather conditions J. Hall, W. Scobie, J. Graham, W. Bobinson, J. Erekana, J. Walsh, J. Lawson, W. Watson, J. McFarland. Mr J. Collin gwood, the well-known and popular haadicapper, has consented to fill that most important position. —Advt. For bronchial coughs take Woods' Great Pepperment Cure. Is 6d &2s 6d.