633 DEBT REPAID.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1924, Page 4

633 DEBT REPAID.

LONDON. July AS,

American lawyers who visited Rraseiiosc College, Oxford, on Saturday were surprised to lim! that when l.awrenri. Washington, giva t-grea tgrandfather of the lirst President of the United Stales of America, left the college—lie ‘‘went down” in Itl.Tlt—he also letl a debt ol 17s lOd fui "battles"—bread and beer. The hooks of the college will no longer show this blot on the escutcheon of the Washingtons, for, with the sanction of the principal, Mr C. TI. Sampson, ALA., the Americans immediately subscribed the sum and handed it over to the principal. THE SUICIDE PLANT. LONDON, July 2S. -Vji American aloe plant near the Broad Walk in Regent’s Park. N.W., is preparing, after 7■"» years of life, to flower—and die. It is the peculiar characteristic of this plant that it produces blossom | only at the rest of its own life. Several other aloes, not yet prepared to die. grow near it.

The -ap of the aloe yields the Alexi-<-an a 1 leverage called ‘•pulque,” the leaves are used to feed cattle, and tiie fibre is formed into cord and ropes. A few seeds, brought oil the feet and legs of a heron which made its home on the lake in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Regent’s Park, ultimately produced a mass of weeds which choked tiie lake. Recently the introduction of ducks lias helped to reduce the growth.