TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16120, 8 July 1914, Page 7

TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

P.TMI Association—By Tebgraph—Copyright*

LONDON, July 6. In 3, letter to the press, Sir John Taver ner (Agent-general for Victoria.) recommends the Imperial Government to establish a self-supporting agricultural depot for the training of boys and girls in rutal life in co-operation with the oversea*.' Governments. All those trained in the depot should be sent out separately.

PARIS, July 6.

A procession of flower-carrying women deposited their flowers at, the base of th» statue of Condorcet, who has been chosen as the patron of the feminist movement because he raised his voice against social inequality. Condorcet expressed no hos* tility to men, and ridiculed the idea o warring with the other half of the humaJ race over feminism.

Professor Beaqueret, of the, Paris Uni» versity, placed some seeds in a vacuum all the temperature of liquid air. They wer» subsequently planted, and sprouted vigor* ously after two years. eThe profeesor theorises that the experiment shows that latent life will remain in the earth when the sun is exhausted, and be -capable ; of bursting into activity again under proper conditions.