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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 23

Examinations for extra-first, first and second-class stationary engine drivers' certificates will be held at the offices of the Inspectors of Machinery at the chief centres *on Tuesday, March st-h. A meeting of members of the No. 3 Co-operative Building Society of Wellington was held last Friday to< decide by ballot a loan appropriation. Mr R. A. Wright, chairman, presided 1 . Messrs P. Kelleher and C. Edwards were elected scrutineers. The first number drawn was 63, held by a member who had given notice to forego. The second' number drawn was 156, held by--a-.lady member who holds one share. ' In rising to respond to a toast at- last week’s meeting of the Hardware Club, Mr Morley humorously likened himself to an English M.P., who was called upon to open a bridge over a loch, r He began by saying, “Gentlemen, I remember when this plane was a vasty, deep !” The M.P. repeated the opening sentence twice, but no inspiration came t-o him; so, in sheer desperation, he added, “‘And I wish from the bottom of my heart it was a vasty deep still 1” The name of the Grand Duke Carl oi Saxe-Weimar, who died at the end of last year in bis eighty-third year, is indissolubly associated with rue intellectual development of Germany during the last half century. Goethe was presentat his baptism, and he had a clear recollection of great poet. The Grand Duke when he came to tb© throne, ro live up to the proud -traditions of Weimar, and nobly kept his resolve. The town of classic poetry became under him the cradle of the new German School of Music. His encouragement of Liszt was well known. It was on his stage that Wagner’s “Lohengrin” was first performed fifty years ago: It was at his instigation that the Castle of Wartburg—a jewel of the German Middle Ages—was restored. Shakespeare and Goethe Societies flourished under his patronage, and his art schools and museums have been of immense service to rising artists. H© was the doyen of German sovereigns, and took an active and honourable part in all the movement® which consummated’ united; Germany.