His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, on his first official visit to South Australia, took the opportunity to become acquainted with the conditions in the state as regards afforestation.
The rapidly increasing consumption of Asiatic raw silk by American manufacturers has resulted in a definite movement on the part of the producers in China to obtain information regarding ways in which the trade between China and America in raw silk may be increased.
Moonlight schools, so called because conducted during moonlight nights, are meeting with success in various communities in Kentucky, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Having just observed its second anniversary, the Lincoln Highway—the 3,384 mile transcontioncntal road dedicated to Abraham Lincoln—begins its third year with much construction work completed.
Agricultural or farm schools are urgently needed in the Philippine Islands, according to the director of education, who says that at least one such school should be found in every province, and that equipment should be purchased and capable teachers employed to put not less than one special course in farming in every one of the 300 intermediate schools now in existence.
The attorney-general of the United States has issued the following statement on the subject of the proposed combination of independent steel companies:—
Connecticut College for Women, at New London, the first institution of its kind in the state, opened this fall with an entering class of more than one hundred students.
