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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8006, 27 October 1887, Page 2

At the Education Board meeting on Wednesday^ discussion took place on tha subject of painting the schools and teachers' residences throughout the district, and a return was ordered to bo prepared showing what schools required painting. Messrs. Wood Broa., watchmakers, have a notice in another column to the effect that to meet the times they have considerably reduced their prices for cleaning and repairing watches and clocks. [ Tenders are invited for the stock-in-trade, &c, of Henry Gapel, draper, of Waitara, fuller particulars of which will be found elsewhere. Several letters to the Editor are unavoidably held over. Mr. F. P. Corkill has requested uu to state that he hus received a small parcel of annotlo seed from New York, and will be happy to distribute the same amongst those settlers who care to cultivate the tree in Taranaki. Tho Evening Press states the following as a fact :— There is a story told of four thrifty memhers who, on one session, some years ago, agreed to live together in a four-roomed cottage, and " do for themselves," so as to economise their honorarium to the utmost. They took it turn and turn about to cook, and if one of them got an invitation to dinner, he notified the fact to the cook for the day, who limited his purchase of liver and bacon, or whatever it was, accordingly. At the end of the session, which lasted twelve weeks, the four Members found that they had lived at the rate of 10s. a-week, or £6 for the session, and saved £204 out of the honorarium, of £210. The British Medical Journal gives the following interesting particulars of the height, weight, and dimensions of Thomas Longley, of Dover, who is said to be the heaviest British subject in the world. Mr. Longley, who io a respectable and intelligent publican, is forty years of age, being l>orn (of parents not above the normal size) in 1848. As a baby he was not considered large. His present weight is 40 stone, height 6ft. Of in., measurement of the waist 80in, size of the leg 25in. He finds considerable difficulty in walking, and does not trust himself in a carriage, for fear of breaking the springs. He is said to be very temperate both in eating and drinking, and has never suffered from any ill-health of a serious nature. An application was recently made by Mr. William Seed, late Secretary of Customs, through the to the Admiralty for a nomination of his son as an engineer student in Her Majesty's service. Tho Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were also asked to grant periodical nominations of colonial youths as engineer students. The reply received by His Excellency ia to tho effect that their Lordships had decided that in future three engineer studentships shall be offered annually to the sons of colonists, under the same gfaneral regulations as are at present in force with regard to other candidates. The Lords Commissioners, however, ntate that Mr. Seed's son would bo ineligible fqr examination if he had already attained tho age of sixteen, or if he will attain the age of sixteen before the Ist of next year. Jt appears from the despatoh that Mr. Seed's son was past sixteen years of ago at the date of that despatch. Further copies of tho regulations and other particulars respecting the throe nominations of engineer students which the Lord Commissioners propose in future to assign to the colonies, it was intended should be oo.'i>municated in a despatch after further communication with the Admiralty. This ia related by a correspondent of a Christohurch paper :—": — " A lady in Christchurch had a remarkable experience the other day. \t abput J q'cloc'k one Wednesday evening, whilst walking along Colombo-street in company of a lady companion, she was suddenly seized with a peouliar kind of fir, which waa so Borioqa a* to necessitate her being immediately removed to her frjends house. For some days after tho fit she was in a very despondent mood, which to her friends was unaccountable, inasmuch as there was no apparent cause therefor. A few days afterward came the news from Melbourne that her eister had, on the night she had the fit, and at 7 o'clock, been killed on tho railway. It appears that the unfortunate lady was crossing the line near Essendoo, and, being in deep thought, did not hear the approaching engine, which dashed her to pieces, and threw her, in n mangled heap, on to the platform, on which stood several awe-stricken passengers. Death, of course, was instantaneous. Here, then, is a case demonstratively proving that mental telegraphy and sympathy may and dp occur undej certain normal aB well as abnormal conditions. Dr. Tuke has related eitnilur remarkable" oaaeo," Our Australian cousins aro coal hands. There waa an alarm of fire a short time ago (says Vanity Fair) atiheOhristchurch Now Zealand Club, which, like most buildings in the city of the samo name, ia const lii'ctecl of wood. A party was playing whiat in the cavd-roOm on the ground floor, To thorn rushes an alarmed member, " Good heavens, geutlemen, do you know that the club is on fire ? There aro three engines in the street now just about (o begin pumping ! " Tlneo of the players jumped up from their chairs, but the fourth 8-ai'i, quietly, "Sit down; wo have plenty of time to finish the rubber. Wo are a treble aud three against a single. Wo can always get away by the window." The calmness of the speaker induced them to sit down agaiu'. fiddling while Rome is burning, said eoraepne; but, aa a matter of fact, it was a false alarm, and the players finished their rubber, and several others, unharmed. Wunted, — The merits of Crook's American Dried Yeast to bo well and widely known ; it is sold in 2d and 6 1 packets by all grocers. Guroful housowivcß should not fail to enquire for it at li. Cooic'n, Brougham-Btroot, Wholesale Agent for Taranaki. — Advt. 1—