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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 325, 4 January 1911, Page 3

Exclusive of allowances, an admiral of tiie English Fleet is paid £2190 a year. The Wymlham "Farmer" reports that a lad, in the employ of a Glenham settler, was granted leave to visit Invcrcargill on Tuesday week, the first day of the show, conditionally upon his returning the same evening, so that the other ruenjuera of th,e household would not be inconvenienced in going to the show on the next day. The lad was unfortunate enough to miss the train in the evening. Bearing in mind the fact that if he was away on the following morning somebody would be denied the trip to Invercargill, the lad set M ut afte* tea, and walked the whole wiiy to his master's home—a distance of thirty-three miles reaching his goal, footsore and weary, lit daybreak,

In modern political history there have been few instances of pergonal and administrative qualities receiving such rapid recognition a? in the case of I\lr Lewis ilarcourt, the new (.Colonial Secretary. IWr Winston Churchill had been four years at Westminster when Mr Ilarcourt was chosen to represent the kite puke of Devonshire's constituency—the Lossendale Division of Lancashire. He is the eldest surviving sen of the late Sir William Ilarcourt, and it is significant of the close affection vh-ch existed between father and son that on leaving Eton, Mr Harcourt did not proceed to Oxford or Cmabridge, Inst determined to elevoio himself to Sir Wililam's service. Ho has a pleasant, and almost insinuating- manure, when he pdeads for the co-operation of his fellow-members, and his speeches are brightened by rapier like Hashes of repartee and humour. At their beautiful home, Kuneham Park, so delightfully situated on the banks of the Thames, a few miles from Uxford, Mi and Mrs Ilarcourt had the honour of entertaining the late King. Mrs Harcourt is the. only daughter of the late Mr W. 11. Burns, of New York and North Mymms Fark.