LATE ITEMS

Western Star, 24 November 1908, Page 3

LATE ITEMS

The returns for the Licensing pol will appear in our next issue.

A five year old daughter of Mr R. Huo'hes ‘ South Riverton, was badly burned about the arms on Monday through her clothes catching faro. Ifae little sufferer was conveyed t<> Jtho hospital and is now progressing satisfactorily.

The firsti heats of the Presidents Pours of the Riverton Rowing Olub which were postponed from last week owing to the boisterous weathfcr, were successful! rowed off last evening The first heat was between W. header’s and H. Beer’s crews, Beer having the new boat and the inside running. Both crews got away together, and at the baths Leader had a slight advantage, but Beer kept level, and on reaching the wharf had sprinted into the lead, and led by a canvas when a member of Loaders’crew caught a crab, and Beer won a good race by one and a>half lengths. The second heat between T. Haslett and o. Bailev’s crews did not, produce such a good" race, as .Bailey was badly lett at the, start, one of his men not being ready. Haslett led throughout, ■and eventually won by six lengths, having rowed the course in 20 secs, faster time. The third heat, between H Pope’s and C. Robertson s crews will be rowed this evening at p.m. Mr S. Beer acted as starter, and Mr W. J. Pankhurst as judge. The semifinal will be to wed on Wednesday and the final on Thursday, both commencing at 7 p.m.

The Waiicw-tu 1 -'! school will brink up on December JBtb. when the ennrrdttee propose to invite the parents to be present. U. Is proposed to nifc-ke the function one tyorlhy of the occasion..

The Wairaka G'ld Prospecting Association, w'nijh has spent a’ >-ut lour hundred pounds already in l' fospect"iug the ril'i ’1«1 group;! t>ev>»»d Nigct caps, has apyUel to «»e Minister for Mines for a subsidy "f one lnmdrtd and fifty pound! to assist ir carrying out further operations A. the wash <is deep, driving will be necessary. The prospjets are Va.-y mepuraging. and if the field is proper 1 v develop! ij it will open up a very profitable area of auriferous country,

A ten-year-old prodigy of learning, William J. Sidis, has astonished the intellectual! world ,of Boston by passing the entrance examination into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the highest institute of its kind in the United States, where the average ago of entrants is twen-ty-one say's the Boston eorrespondeue of the Daily Express). The iboy is attracting • the attention of ptychologises, who consider that he gives support to the theory of inherited! characteristics. His father,, Dr Boris Sidis, is a Russian of exceptional intellectual attainments, and his mother is a physician of unusual skill. The youngster could read and write at two years of age, arid at four lie spoke fluently, and read four languages. Now he is capable of holding his .own in discussi ons on the nebular hypothesis, or debating abstruse problems in trigonometry.

The photographic studio .and resi- v---dense of Mr W. Cameron, of Winton, Was' destroyed by fire early on Thursday morning. Mr Cameron was the only occupant at the time and lie narrowly escaped being caught in the fire. Everything was lost, indluding- the contents and. furnishings of Mr James Walsh’s law office in the front of the building,. The adjoining shop and residence belonging to Mr A. E. Geddes, jeweller, was saved by the efforts of Mr W. Marchiant and others who kept a stream of water playing on the spreading fire. The insurance on Mr Cameron’s building is £825 in ilia Commercial Union office, and three hundred on the furniture, apparatus and stock in the Alliance Office, making a total of six hundred and twenty-five pounds. Mr. Cameron, however, estimates his loss at fully three hundred pounds aver this amount. Mr Geddes’s st o ck w a s inured for four hundred and fifty in the South British office.