MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 25 September 1909, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

P&ES3 Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Friday. New South Wales has secured a space 70ft by 45ft at the 'Crystal Palace for exhibits of all classes of products. Lord Kitchener was warmly welcomed at Saigon. Mr Lewis Thomas, a Queenslander, has presented £1000 to the University College at Aberystwyth, to found a scholarship for boys in his native village in Cardiganshire. MELBOURNT, Saturday. .Replying to a deputation of the Council of Churches, drawing attention to race suicide, the State Premier promised to legislate to prohibit the importation of preparations, drugs, and instruments for illegal operations, and to impose penalties on the sale of such articles.

That was an extraordinary message from Levin the other day, relating how the school children became .seized with .the idea that tbe world was. coming to an end at 11.30 a.m. on a givep date (remarks "The GeneraT' in the Auckland "Herald"). The fact_that some of the youngsters were so frightened that they had to be forced to attend school seems to point to the probability that 7 iumo professed clairvoyant 'had been propounding his views in the neighbourhood. "Wo might as well have a holiday for the last day," said one little ■ fellow. There's philosophy for you! The ' Circumstance is .interesting as showing ' how easily modern prophets can gam credence, if only amongst the small try. The end of the worldhas been prognosticated times out of ' number, the date, and even the hour, has been fixed, and on every occasion a percentage of us have prepared ourselves for the great finale.- ' • No great harm can accrue, to adults from such false alarms, but it seems a pity to Bcare the"kiddies." Who was at. the bottom of the Levin incident, I wonder? Whoever it was must plead guilty to a miscalculation, for, I learn on good authority that the old earth is still revolving on its axis. A dairy farm at Mauaia, ' Taranaki, has changed hands at £65 an acre. -The "Taranaki. Herald" says the price is exceptional, "but it was not a speculative investment,' made with the idea that the land would presently become town or suburban property, - nor as far as we know were the improvements upon it of extraordinary value. The price appears to have been based upon what the farm has actually yielded during the last, year or two, and on that basis the deal may be a perfectly sound one." . The "Herald" suggests that "while values may, be said to have reached their limit Eased on the -actual present productivity 'of the land, and that a marked fall in the price of butter=fat would probably make present values too high, yet. it is posible by a better sytem of farming to i make the average land of dairying .land in the province considerably higher than it is."