WALLACE TROOPERS' MEMORIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 43

WALLACE TROOPERS' MEMORIAL.

The accompanying pictures show the unveiling of the Memona.l for Fallen Troopers in the Boer War, erected at the south end of Pa.lmerston street, Riverton, and the stone itself. The total amount collected was £116 16 9d, and the Riverton Patriotic Committee donated £10, making the sum £126 16s 9d. The monument cost £105. The lettering on the stone reads : — Wallace Troopers' Memorial ; Erected by the people of Wallace in memory of troopers who lost their lives in South African War 1899-1902; "The path of duty was the way to glory." To the memory of Troopers D. F. M'lntosh (Fairfax), of F. H. Goode (Riverton), Seth Ky c (Mossburn), and D. B. Ferrar (Otautau), and Alexander Scott (Clifden). Mr J. C. Thomson, M.H.R., is seen addressing the audience.

— Professor Karl Pearson, P.R.S., in his Huxley Memorial Lecture at the Anthropological Institute, after giving evidence t-o show that mental as well as phyical qualities are inherited from parents, called attention to the present lack of intelligence in British professional and working men. He does not think the remedy is to be eoughl in foreign methods of instruction or in technical education. Intelligence must be bred, and we are ceasing, he thinks, to breed it as we did 50 or 100 years ago.