BURNS'S ANNIVERSARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1960, 17 January 1914, Page 7

BURNS'S ANNIVERSARY.

The Scottish Society of Wellington has the arrangements well in hand for the celebration of the 166 th anniversary of tho birth of tho national poet, Robert Burns. The function is to take place in tho Town Hall Concert Chamber, on Friday evening next, January 23. The feature will bo-an address by Mr. J. Craigic, M.P. There will also bo a concert programmo of Burns's songs and recitations by tho leading Scottish artists, as well as Highland dancing and piping, without which no Scottish concert would bo complete. The secretary reported at a meeting held last night, that tho tickets wero selling well, and that ho anticipated a record house. _ Field-Marshal Lord Roberts says: "I use M'Clinton's soap, and liko It very much, particularly tho Shaving Cream. 1, -Advt. Tho largest and heaviest applo ever grown in the world has been raised in England—at June's Acre, Hereford. It is a Gloria Mundi. It weighs 32J ounces, and tho announcement of its advent has created quito a sensation in the fruit world. This wonderful applo was grown in an eleven-inch (lower pot, tho three producing six mammoth fruits at the fame time- It was this very treo which lioro the giant apple of 1910. Britain has thn credit, of producing the biggest, "heaviest, and highest-priced apples crown.