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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 6

The music-hall business is is danger of becoming over-developed At feast one-half of t UR existing halls are at the present time bein|. conducted at a loss. —Mr Henry To zer. \ It -:s not at all nrooable that tin University Reform Association wii bo deterred by the speefeh Sir Eober. Stout delivered at eivristchurch yen :erday from proceed,!!" •towards ii;).jective. Appaiently Sir Rober h:>'-e s his o;.nsiii<. :) to one import"'" ;>:u: of the' reform movement upo ,Hofouud distrust of the expert, bi-i ■.■■■ jiidse from w'tva; has been publish o;l." i'::'" ;iicrii:i:t I 'ii - '" ""'- <lir'j--rioi ■■ni-.dly seem to foiiiiy lii--:_ t:;i:^" Xiihe'r-the-outsldo examiner is :u xpert or lve is pot. If it is nov-. •laimed )'n defence of the externai • >.amination system that oi:<ly »; .'his meat's cMn the university sl.i' !er.t escape the thraldom of tho c\ -.pit, discnssion on the snb.iect wil •-<sume a r.e.v .i>i;:is=e. tor we havi -.iways been L'ivcn to understaii' !i:it*the <->-.; i in':.!•.■••.-, ;i . a 'i is!.an.-.c «rt -..ore expeK tbjsn i'.i--e i.-*:iilabln i' ■ £ at home. Uuiveiiiiy professors have toid the. country that the syttcm r.ow in vogue '' is a fraud on ,th( community." a nd to this indictmen-: -uppyorted by relevant evidence, th> Chancellor ' s summing up makes n< adequate reply. —"N.Z. Times." Ninety-two gates have (says the Pittr,' ■>urg correspondent of the "Standard'' just been completed and shipped t. Vanama for use in constructing th> '-anal. Tlie gates are to make 46 pairs each gate is 82ffc. high, a pair is 65ft wide Jjnd 7ft. thick. Each separati gate weighs 600 tons. Twenty pairs o nes c gates are to be at the CJaliui Dam on the Pacific side, twelve at Pedro JWi, s -uel, and fourteen at Mir.iflores. iiit purpose of the gates is to hold bacP water that will be 47ft. deep, and in ? channel 110 ft. wide, and they are sup posed to resist any ordinary explosion or earthquake. Inasmuch as each 1"«*1' -n- the nanal is built in duplicate, tlit destruction of one set of gates by more han an ordinary explosion or earth quake would cause no serious inconvenience. The total weight of the steel used n the entire forty-six pairs of gates if *3.0C0 tons, or more than eight times a; -mich as was used to build the Eiffe' Tower. The heaviest single piece of •steel used in the gates weieJis eighteen lons. The cost is £1,000,000 for the 'forty-six pairs. Four hundred skilled steel-workers leave here during r>ecem.'oer for Panama to set up the gates. The •setting up will, it is expected, begin in 'February.