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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14858, 30 September 1912, Page 4

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li.r 7-! ji liter U jpvsa povm 4» oom'.n \i.u. -;, be ora« of an esteM, and 1' r:,:<r iv<:i a voluntary agreement I. ■' :.-'ij-.-:. i-v. J.i-UKI V' ... i.i'ijj- io it*. Mini" ■ '■ • :: - *.v- rl;jM \/y pnt* v» •■' ■ ' ' ;■■ >••■.• :ii i<-c jib'«« 3on T 1 - hind =» tiu-in V .. " ' ~' ' :>■• •• . '!!iw trflTOE Of J'- •'■.'•'■ ' : -.. .•.!••" M i out is Ui« l'l ~ :: i i: • < . j nit ittfsonahlfc Haiti,-'-; .-..-.'l 1'" <,-raf i;;is no right to refu-.ii :i "..-;,Jcr so ]i>ii(r he it is «o,ua] to tie r-s:ne fi-f-j <in ihc holding. 6afei.'mrr!.* ;;i-.-iinfl are jirrv. vjijfj. 'Hie iin-paliro offered lo fl»e ""T "1 a pT'ijicTly to take adrar)t.vjM' <■]) tljc provision of the nor Bill i*. in l!it- i::ri that be can call on %ho Minister i« pay tl» whole oostc and r'nr.rges of the s-jnvy of the land and t.;p road-miJunp. etc Bvtcb money, '.f fmrse. if to ?«e refunded within a j..rir»3 1-j l»i agreed on, but the om'tK-r <n" the i,''<'lJtny has the advantage cf 'nine able to subdivide his estate without ha-rinß to worry about lairiuj j th» riith noccfsarr to do so; sod he 'j~ pttiap the oi» of the noorr im 1:*- fli<-3pcrt possible terms. These ; li.-nvJrifjns, -tad the BUI jnwidmg for .-i.-i increase of the graduated land tas, ran be regarded as two prongs of a forV. One prong wiD stimulate Irit-fr? otraprs to subdivide their estates; tbe oiJ>er shows a simple wiy to subdivide them. The jutii nr cadet corps may hare a «T!i:iJUt roll-rail, but they -will not V> d"".'lrnjw3. jf th" present proposals cf *.')<• Defence MirJstcr {the Hon. James .Ail*'!)) receive tie endorsement of the Cabinet. The parent who rears that his i-mall I<ot"b natnrafly paeifie mind in,-it be prTfrted and made bdlioor» by tlie Kcmblanoe of a uniform an-l obedifan» to tbe order *Slmn V vi'ii h:<re hi* misprints set at rest. Th« «d«ts will still "noTanoe,** "retire," and f<f-l as ranch pride In the "double" a? if tbev were repnltmg Boonapart' l . but tlw bor -u'lKiise fatner is jm a»t> militarist nill not be one of tbeir. He -a-ill not feel any cf the joy. Ko ti-ill bo doing "physical drill on sci'.?!)tiSc linof," trhioh is nsefnl bnt prt>raic-. tind tim cadets and girls *riH be trained in physical cnlture too. Her" is no doubt of t3ie advantagea of physical and the men and women of the fn tare should be the better for it if it is made compulsory in the school*. But ve an glad that room is to be left for tie cadets also, and ire fancy that, at the Timarn acboolf, tbeir nombcr »ill not be atosh affected by an alteration of lbs law to 1 make their "Berries" Tolmrtary. I Tbo results of the Indian oeosos 'taken last year make, in soma respects, melancholy reading, jthe 315 millions who eonpose the population of India then are still j 802,425 child wives less than six ! years old, of whom 17,700 ara widows, ! condemned, for the most part, bj Hindu custom to thai state tmdei ' harsh oonditions. Child wires under \ eleven years of ago somber 2i mil- ' lions, of whom 94,000 ere widows. 'Almost all these children are married to hnsbands several times their own 'age. Only ISj m2Koa»s-108 stales and 11 females to every thousand of 'the population—are described as j literate—able to read, and write io a ' friend and read bis reply in a satire langnage. Ten years ago toe proportions were 98 males and 8 females. Out of 315 million people only 15 •raillionf, including. Europeans and Kurasians, have a knowledge of the 'English language. The proportaon ban increased in the decade, but it is stall i elmoEt insignificant. "35>e TSmes" points out that "In considering these 'returns it is important to bear in .mind that some cf India's best and : most honoured sons, including Orientalists of repute and men practised in publio affairs, are not among the ; «Eaglish-edticated,*. although the latter are prone to claim a monopoly of . culture and of ripht to parfcuapateyin public and administrative spheres."