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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 38, 19 January 1894, Page 19

A great trial of reapers and binders waa recnntly made at Mount Blowhard, Coghill's Creek, Ballarat, Victoria. The occasi. n was that of producing a pictnre of harvesting operations in Australia for distribution throughout the world— the enterprise bdim? due to the Massey-Hams Beaper and Binder Company. The trial came off under the patronage of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and the la-ge attendance present included several prominent and dietinguished colonists. Fifty acres of grain were operated on, and there were thirty-nine machines. A luncheon was afterwards giveD, at which high tea imony was boroe to the en-erprise of the Masaey-Harria Company and the impetus given to agriculture by the use of their machines. A statue to Marshal MacMahon is to be erected in P»ris at the centre of the avenue, near the Arc de Triomphe, whhh is called after the deceased soldier. The proposal as to the statue emanated from Gen Loizillon, Minister of War. In these day 9, when some Catholics are so sh >rt-si?hted to use no harder word— as deliberately to choose for their children a»y tern of education which develops the intellect and ignores the heart, n is instructive to hear a thoughtful non-Oatholic's estimate of waat'c institutes higher education. Mr Edward W. Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, says of the education of women — " All the higher education that will ever be acquired by woman will not do her onetenth as much good as the fuller development of patience and charity for each other's faults. The kind of education which women want to-day is not so much the higher education as some good, strong dosjs of lower education. Before we endeavour to strengthen a mind let us fiist see that the heart is right." This is what the CatholU schools do.— Pilot.