Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

■V* -*— — tord Brassey tells a good story against himself* ■ Hovis president of Dr. Homes, and alter epsa l <ing at a meeting in (heir sup port at Harrow he slatted to walk to London, and came up to four little girls who had been at the meeting. " What did yon think of Lord Brassey?" said one. " I thought he was a nice gentleman,' said another. " I didn't," said another, '.' he can't speak a bit — he humm'd and haa'd allWrime.'' ' Upon the sawing capabilities of a single tjjee^ylfjii ' Australia puts in a claiHi.'; A^logsCut in that colony, it instil t'd, was 68 feet long, and 13 feet 10 inches mean girth ; actua.l cubic content^ 10,682 super, feet; estimated weight, 30 tons (including bark). A 27 feet length was cut off the butt of the troo, then the 58 feet length, and then a 30 feet length. A pen and ink portrait of " "Rolf Bo'drewqod."— He is about /50 years, of iflge, tluirfc and stout, will) an exceedingly i mall head, and face, a\id small brown eyes in a perpetual state of twinlfl&r^rggestive of a far deeper ssnso of humor than one would believe lha. writer cf his books to pos ses?. Ho talks easily and well on ! every sul.j°ct under the sun, though his bia3 is na:u ally towards liteia* t-nre, and he never i ravels without a small libiavy of magazines stowed away in his handbag. tl — : — | The Harcouit (Vie.) fruitgrowers I heir account sales for the dhiid consignment of apples sent to London this season. The highest price was given for Mr «T. E. Warren's Munro's Favorite, 15s Gd per case, hia Annie Elizabeths realising 14?. The lowest price obtained was Ms Gd. The whole shipment, aver, aging 13s _ncr case 4 Jii l ivid_ r a 1 re l axly^ i