Notes and Evefits.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 January 1892, Page 2

Notes and Evefits.

• ♦ The freezing works have been increased in number and in size until, in the North Island alone they are in a position to freeze over 2,000,000, and in the South Island 1,600,000 carcases a year. Charges for freight, freezing, and sale have been steadily reduced until in some cases the total charges fall a trifle below 2d per lb. But even at that rate, meat which sells for only Bid per lb in London, would only leave l£d per lb for the New Zealand grower, or say 7s 6d for a 60 b sheep with perhaps an average of 2s 6d for skin and ofial added. I The London Times has completed j the publication of a series of four articles, aggregating nine columns, about the Exposition, from the pen of Joel Cook, of Philadelphia, who is 5 ' the chief representative of the ! " Thunderer" in the United States. SMr Cook visited Chicago a short I time ago and informed himself j thoroughly upon Exposition matters. His first article, which is replete with statistics, is devoted almost wholly to < hieago as a city, and is a glowing account of its wonderful history and its achievements and attractions. The second treats of the plan and scope of the Exposition, including data and descriptions of the buildings. The third represents the present condition ot the enterprise as to work of construction, etc., and contain-! also at some length the favorable conclusions drawn by Sir Henry Wood, the British commissioner who recently visited Chicago in the interest of his country's participation in the Fair. The fourth and concluding article treats of the railway journey to Chicago from New York and pther Atlantic ports, representing that it is a delightful trip and that if will interest the foreign visitors scarcely less than will Chicago and the Exposition itself. Altogether Mr Cook's articles are exceedingly favorable to the Exposition and, appearing as they do in such an influential paper, will unquestionably do it an immense amount of good, not only in London and throughout England, but in all parts of Europe and in the many British colonies all over the world. It is a well-known fact that Chinaman make excellent house servants, but they also have certain peculiarities which are a little odd at first to colonists brought up in England. A lady tells the following story of her first experience with one of the Monogolians, illustrating their great powers of imitation : — She started one day to show the new servant how to make a cake. She told him to watch her make one and then to make the others like it. In preparing the eggs she broke two in a cup, and the third not suiting her she threw it out of the window. When John's turn came, true to the letter, if not the spirit of his instructions, he broke two eggs in a cup and threw a third out of the window.