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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 June 1911, Page 5

Dormant funds in Chancery now amount to about £1,171,000, the sum being, distributed over more than 3590 separate accounts.

Halley's comet, whicli was nearest to the sun and to the earth and at its greatest brilliancy more than a year ago has been followed on its journey into" distant space with the telescopes of the Lick Observatory. The comet is now (say s a message from the Observatory dated May 27) a little further than Jupiter is from the- sun—that is about 500,000,000 miles—but Astronomer Curtis has photographed it with the Crossley reflector on two •nights this week exactly in the predicted positions. Even with the powerful photographic telescope, the image of the comet i s extremely faint on the plates, and it would no doubt be invisible in the most powerful teleseopes if looked for visually. The •comet is now 60 per cent, further from the sun than, it wa s when itsapproach to the sun wa s discovered photographically in September, 1909.

Before leaving for. England last week Mr. T. Sedgwick sent an interesting letter to all the "Sedgwick boys" in New Zealand. He says that so far the scheme has, with one or two exceptions, proved a success, and that generally speaking, the employers 'and the boys are very satisfied with, each other. He expressed an earnest hope that for the credit of the scheme the boy s would sustain and intensify the good opinion now ield by the farmers with respect to them. "The future for you all," says Mr. Sedgwick, "is very bright if you work well and. continue to save after your apprenticeship is up; and when you have each saved a few hundred pounds I would strongly advise you to take up bush land, provided there is convenience of access to it by road and rail, and being young you will have plenty of time to clear it and become as well off as your employers, some of whom had a far worse start than you bad." Ho urges Hie. boys to be thorough in their work and trustworthy—for, as he adds, "thoroughness is fhe keynote of success." With the assistance of the Farmers' Union, Mr. Sedgwick intends to bring out another party of boys.