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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 420, 6 August 1908, Page 4

For the first time a Methodist has been created a peer of the British realm. This is Viscount Wolverhampton (late Sir Henry Fowler). In pointing out this fact, the Methodist Recorder remarks; —Anglicism is strongly represented in the House of Hords. ’lhe Roman Catholic Church can command the votes of more than forty peers. Presbyterian peers are there in considerable numbers. When Sir Henry Fowler enters that assembly, he will be the fiist Wesleyan layman to take his seat in the Gilded Chamber. It is a curious coincidence that another Methodist preacher’s son, Mr R. W. Perks, Sir Henry Fowler’s former partner in business, now takes his place as the senior Wesleyan Methodist member of Parliament in the House of Commons. Mr Walter Runcimau, the new Minister of .Education, is also a Wesleyan. It will l'o seen from an announcement elsewhere in this issue that Messrs C. M. Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, are now holding their 50‘h end of season sale, and in order to suitably commemorate their 25th year of successful trading in the City of the Plains, they are giving bargains big and plenty.— Advt. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absolately invaluable to the traveller.