The BoyS' High School. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2391, 28 December 1899, Page 19

The BoyS' High School. TO THE EDITOR.

Sic, — I should be indebted to you if yow" would allow me to make good an omission which I regret having made in the course of the prize distribution at the Boys' High School on Thursday. I had intended to draw tha attention of visitors very specially to the specimens of mechanical drawings done by Mr Sherriff's cla^s during the year, and exhibited on the walls of the school. The class had a large increase of pupils during the past year. Nearly twice the usual amount 4 of work was riiown, a«d though the work varied in quality, much of it was excellent. This I intended to mention when the prizes for mechanical drawing were presented, but by inadvertence I omitted to do so. I regret the omission, partly because ifc was an injustice to Mr Sherriff, whose enthusiasm in his Work is beyond all Braise, and partly because thi9 is a practical side of the school work which I wish to emphasise and hope next year to extend. To those specially interested in this kind of work the drawings of course spoke for themselves, but it is the kind of unobtrusive work that is apt to escape general notice unless specia 1 attention is drawn to it. — I am, etc., A. Wilson, Bector. Otago Boys' High School, December 15.

Lakes Waihola and Waipori, in the Bruc# County, have been declared reserves for native and imported game under the Animals Protection Act.

According to the latest statistical returns, /the total number of ministers in< all the sec« [ tions of Methodism in the world is +3,400; [ 6f lay preachers, 101,643 ; church members and probationers, exclusive of members of junioi classes, 7,100,601; Sunday school scholars, , 6,185,790. The number of adherents is estimated at 30,000,000.

Submission of legal arguments in writing is -common enough in Scotland and in som« of the North American States, but it is an unusual occurrence in this colony. In Wellington, on Monday afternoon, however (th« Post reports), Mr Justice Denniston, on tha eve of his departure for the south, agreed to receive written arguments from Dr Findlay and Mr Skerrett in a case on appeal, Crawford and Co. v. the Assets Realisation Board, relating to a freight question in which the Assets Board had succeeded before the magistrate.