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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8282, 8 November 1906, Page 5

' Influenza in a severe form is skill prevalent in Wellington, usually qeyina with a sore throat, and subsebnently attacks the bronchial tubes. It is understood ,thafc as a result of the Jfiurriham Industrial School enquiry, five of the attendants have been dismissed and have received ona month's salary in lieu of notice. SSS It seems that Waimangu hag gone forever lu acknowledging receipt from Mr Robiusou, of the Tourist Department, of photographs of the Mount Tarawera eruptive fissure. Professor George Carroll Curtis, of Boston, U.S.A., an autho;ity oil seismio disturbances, writes that the oessation of Waimangu geyser (its ooasing to play) is quite in accordance with his views as,to the general conditions of tha locality. He adds: "While it is perhaps possible that general manifestation's of thisfnature on the scalo of Waicnangu may occur previous to some primary volcanic eruptions, the chanots are against it. This portion of the Kotorua distriot is one of exceptional scientific §interest and special value to me, and I should be glad to bava any further information ou it that may | occur." ■ i The authors of tho great Mint robery at Munich have been discovered, an 3 the police have recovered pos3Bßsion]of nearly all the stolen coins, which amounted -to £6,500. Ihe merit of the discovery belongs to a young child who, while sitting in a tramwayear, observed that a workman paid his fare from a purse full of golden ten-mark: pieces. With a quick ssnsa of apprehension the child turned to the oon'd not or and quietly observed, "This man has got stolen money from the Mint." Toe man was arrested and confessed to having been associated', with the burglary. Meanwhile by a remarkable coincidence, the police had discovered, independently, the real burglar. This was a soldier named Koenig, a former wortijer ia. the Mint.