GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

NEW LABOUR PARTY FORMED. A Pnlmeraton North telegram states: At a well attended public nnoting last night an Independent Labour Party was termed in Pnlmereton. Messrs viett-h and Robertson, M.P.'s, addressed the gathering. ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP. ~ Among the resolutions adopted by the University Senate at WolliaJtnra. was the following :—"That there- shall be a scholarship to he ''ailed tho engineering travelling' schotarshio, of the viiulo of £IOO, tenable fur cno year. Tho scholarship shall be tennMo only by a-bachelor of engineering (mechanical, electrical, ..r\ivil) who has re-'ontly (ompietcd his ccuis.? Iho scholarship shall be awarded ly the Senate after receiving from tho Professorial Board a report on tho general merit of candidates. Tho holder of the scholarship sludl, vvilnn six months of the awartl thereof, pioceed to some other country or conutrins to he approved of by tho Chancellor, and shall thoro profitably cinp.oy his time during the whole terra ot his scholarship in acquiring knowlodge of his profession, and shall nt 1 10 ™ cf over -5' tur<?o months fiu-niih the Chancellor with a report detailing Ins employment during that period. Applications from qualified candidates must he made in writing to the n gistrar of tho University and niso tho registrar of the College on the K.uks of which the candidate's name appears not later than March Ist, 1912, and shall be doalt with at the April i-cet-«ig of tho Senate." FIRST OR SECOND? An amusing instance of cross-pur-poses occurred the other '.\y, which was made possible in the arst place by tho fact that the Wellington o'fices of Thos. Cook and Sens, iho -.oiirirt agents, are situated in tho -ame building as the office of the i.-gisci-ir of births. A lady called at the office of Cook and Sons and -'nformed a. clerk, as ho imagined, thp.t .-ie wiOirc] to register a berth. -Certi-nly, madam," replied the clerk, "hr?t cr second?" "First," replied th u lacV, (lifter a pause, and with a look ct :-s----toiiishmcnt. for which the c eric found it impossible lo account. Tho pi. blem, however, was quickly uiird. '"What steamer?" nsked the clerk, ir-,-turning to the business in Hand. -•",,.' a not a steamer, it's a baiby,", si.id the fair culler. Then somebody 'ti.jd tho mystified caller that the registrar's office was round tho corner. THE YOUNCER GENERATION. "One of tho regrettable things of the colonies," said Sir Robert Stout (Chancellor of the University) during a sidcussion at the Senate upon the teaching of history in tho schools, "is that tha young men are not reading 00 much as forty years ago. They seem to bo developing Loo much in the direction of spent, mid to be devoting too little time to study. It may bo that our climate and 'oeen-uir conditions hnvo not such a to'iidoncv to induce study ni in the Homeland liu' ynu take note nf the book', rend in the libraries at the present day ami the mngrr/.ino article's, anil mix among young people, say, of the age ~? twonty-fivo vear-i. and you wjl! not licar tho discussions now an fortv years nco on literary and historic- mattors. There exi'rti ;, nr-cd. as Professor Hight has .pint said, to see if we cannot get our young neon],-—f„ r j[ i.« to them we have in look for tho future government of the country—to direct their attention morn to history, ns to see how to deal with noliticai ■nnd civic, questions widely. We ean■not deal wisely with eiront questions ■ without sonic, even a little, knowledge | of tho history of the past."