Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 10 June 1897, Page 2

Notes and Events.

Not long Binoe an enterprising English farmer named Woolley *had the good fortune to purchase a mountain of beef in the shape of an enormous bullock, the price being £85. Since then Jumbo II — the bullock— has, made hundreds of pounds for his owner who shows the animal. Some 800,000 people have paid to see Jumbo 11. The animal was bred and fed by the late Mr Hugh Alymer, of West Dereham, Norfold. He now stands 6ft Bin high at chine and 6ft 4in at hips. He is nearly five years old, and when last N weighed was 1 ton 8 cwt. He measures from nose to tail 15ft 6in, and is 10ft 6in round the girth. An English paper says during the Jubilee festivities upwards- of 700 extra waiters will be employed at Buckingham Palace. These ma will be paid at the following rates :— Head waiters, £2 2i, per day ; ordinary waiters, £1 Is. Only men standing sft lOin will be engaged, and all vacancies will be filled by men who are or have been rh private Be/vice, as references from hotels and restaurants will not be considered. There is very little doubt that London will be seriously overstocked with surplus labour during the week, as a great mtfny more waiters and hotel servants are flocking to London than it will be possible to employ.

The following are some of the stipulations of the measures to be introduced into the Transvaal Raad next session in regard to the Dutch language. All market notes must be written in Dutch. Every inhabitant of the Republic has the right to demand that any receipt offered shall be written in Dutch. The penalty for tendering any of these notes in any other language than Dutch is a fine of £5, or, in default, imprisonment for a period not exceeding 8 months.