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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11987, 13 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

After Trafalgar e?ery seaman and marine got £6 9s 6d prize money. The Nile yielded a dividend of ±-7 18s. "~Tbe~Norwegian postal authorities have under consideration an application for permission to print advertisements on the back of postage stamps. It is proposed to devote tbe proceeds to tbe erection and maintenance of a large sanatorium for consumptives. A theatre on a new plan is being built in New York. The boxes and some of the best seat? will be sold outright, and their owners can use them or sell them as they please. The boxes have been sold at an average price of £5000 apiece. Tbe girl students of the Uniersity of Nevada have been forbidden to skate, on the ground that the pastime is contrary to good morals. The wife of a Manchester oarber's assistant hae gained a separation order on the groutfd that since her husband had been a pupil of a teacher of physical culture, be had persistently practised Ju-Jitsu upon tier, twisting her arms, and otherwise maltreating,her.

The fund for the proposed Seddon Memorial Technical School in Mastßrton now amounts to £1083. Tbe Taihape "Post" states that Taihape will be the principal cbanging station for the Auckland-Wel-lington service, and that £10,000 will be spent; on improving the railway station.

In connection with the discovery of £150 worth of jewellery, buried in a yard, at Perth (W.A. ), a Frenchman witn one arm has been arrested. "Temperance Sunday'" was recently celebrated in the Anglican churches in London. Twenty-five 1/Dglish dioceses observed the practice.