FACTS v. FICTION,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10707, 23 January 1897, Page 6

FACTS v. FICTION,

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —The letter of Mr J. J. Rainaay in yoni yesterday's issue can bs promptly answered. The facts are shortly theae: Tha appointment of tector of the Palmerston District High School was cooxidsred by ths board at their mec-ting on Octobsr 16, 1895, and the camc3 selected forw*rded to the local committee a lew days later. The Selection Committee were set up on Jaouary 16, 1896, and held their first meeting on February 19, 1896. The public have an opportunity of judging of Mr Eams»y's veracity.—l am, ke.,

Daccdin, January 22,

M. Cohen,

— An apron is the royal standard of Per»ia. Goa, k. Persian who was a blacksmith by trsde, raised a revolt which proved successful, and his leather apron, covered with jewels, is sti'l borne ia tbe v»» of Persian armies.

— Richard Harding Davis, the American novelist, travelled over to America in the same ship with Li Hung Chang, and told Li that he was writing a novel. This disgusted the Viceroy. ': Writiiij» a novel!" he exclaimed. " Yon ought tv. be ashr.med of yourself ! Writing a novel, indeed! A big, strapping, able-bodied fellow like you ought to be at work. Why don't yon go to work ? "

— Judge Reruy once boasted thsfc he himself bad been tbe means of putting to death in 16 jears 800 wiiehes. Luther states thut 700Q witc'ass *ere burned at Treves; 600 by a single bishep of Birauurg ; 800 iv a single year iv the bishopric of Wartzburg; 1000 in the province of Como; 400 at Toulouse at a single execution ; 500 .at Geneva in three months; and 48 in Sweden.