NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1004, 13 June 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The current issue of the Trade Review remarks: —“ The bulk of our season’s produce has uow gone forward, and the realisation of this continues to provide an ample supply of money. The balance of exports over imports for the March quarter was over 3 millions, aud for the June quarter also there will be a substantial balance, probably about a million. This is a considerably smaller balance than that of the June quarter last year, owing to the heavy increase iu imports that is going ou, and a decrease in exports, which for April and May are nearly half a million behind the same two mouths last year. There are evidences ou all sides that money is in good supply aud lending rates are easy, with a general prospect of continuing so for the present.”

One of the quaintest suggestions for the celebration of the Coronation is put forward by Captain Mcllwaiue, R.N. The gallant officer considers men ol the British Empire treat their King rather shabbily in the persistence with ■ which they shave themselves ! Beards, he appears to think, are a natural and suitable feature of the Britisher. King Edward grew one and encouraged his personal staff to do so. The Duke of Edinburgh did not shave. King George, also a naval officer, affects a beard for himself and his staff. And yet the beard is quite an exception at the present day. ”It is incomprehensible,” says Captain Mcllwaiue, 11 that the manhood of the Empire, otherwise always so ready to accept a Royal lead, should, iu this matter, show such indifference, or worse, to the views both expressed and implied of their kings.”