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Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 40

Wellington College has now 290 pupils on the roll, which is said to be higher than' any other secondary school in the colony. Obituary: Salvatore Cimino, aged 91, a well-known Wellington resident, who arrived in 1840, in the same vessel as Dr Featherston. He was the son of a captain in the Italian Navy. In the early clays he traded to Lyttplton in a very Mnarb cutter, the Fly. He afterwards went into business in Wellington, j A company, with a capital of £10,000, has been formed to take over the patent of Belk, of Palmerston North, for raising .submerged vessels, and as soon as the weather becomes settled an effort will be made to raise the steamer Tasmania. At a meeting attended by 14 clergymen, representative of the several churches in the city, it was decided to adopt a no license and reduction vote at the coming election as a basis of united action. The chairman stated he had waited on Bishop Wallis, who had, in reply to him, said he was not a prohibitionist, but his sympathies were with the temperance cause. He did not, however, feel warranted in joining the ministers of the various churches at the present time. The man Midgeley, who was rescued by Constable Ryan from Wellington harbour a few nights previously, died suddenly in the gaol on the night of the 16th inst. He had been suffering from the effects of drink, and when he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment the magistrate (Mr Haseldean) said it was more a case for the hospital than the gaol, and expressed regret that the colony did not possess an institution suitable to receive such cases. At the'inquest on the body of Midgeley, who died in the Terrace Gaol, the coroner (Mr Ashcroft) again pointed out the necessity for a- separate place of treatment for $&$$ chronic c^es.. He thought that tlie

Government should take into consideration the establishment of such an institution, They existed at Home, and if an institution of the kind were set up here it would keep many unfortunate people out of gaol who were now placed there merely because they were helpless. * i The new system of inspecting and examining public schools is to come into force on the Ist January next. Sapper Head's condition is marked by a slight improvement. At times he shows brief gleams of returning consciousness, and • is improving a good deal in appearance. \ A movement is being made by the lead- i ing prohibitionists with a, view to present- i ing Sir Robert Stout with * testimonial ' in recognition of his past services in the cause of temperance. j At Pahiatua a man named M'Caulay, ' employed by the Telegraph department in repairing the lines, fell from his horse on Saturday night, and died on Monday morning from concussion of the brain. Two men were on the horse at the time, and both fell off, the other man being much shaken. Deceased was formerly in the Torpedo Corps in Wellington, where he leaves a wife and children. i j J ■ ' : • ! i ! '