NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1028, 10 August 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A resident of Ashburton, who lost a valuable cow by death a few days ago, held a post-mortem examination, which revealed the fact that the animal’s stomach contained a number of 2in nails, two hairpins, several iron rivets, and a piece of tin, while a rusty 3!° was embedded in its heart. The cow went off its feed for ten days prior to its death.

A wonderful piece of statuary Sft high, and carved in solid gold, Is to be placed within a year or two in the Church of St. Anne’s, in Quebec. It will cost ,£60,000, and the group of figures will include St. Anne, the infant Christ, and the Virgin. The figures are to be set on a pedestal of Carrara marble. When finished the work will be taken to Rome to receive the Pope’s'blessing, and will afterwards be exhibited in various Catholic churches in America,

Farming is not all joy in the south. Following the recent snowfall sharp frosts have been experienced at Geraldine, and the snow at the back of the town is disappearing slowly. In Beautiful Valley it lay a foot deep on Sunday, and the farmers were busy getting their sheep and cattle out and doing their best to supply them with teed. Turnips where the snow lies were covered, and some farmers were almost at their wits’ end. One farmer carted out bran, and carts laden with mangels were also going out. In the high country where snow lies deep, men were working hard to get the sheep out.

Six year-old Grand Duke Alexis, heir to the throne of All the Russias, seems to have inherited a taste lor shipbuilding from his illustrous ancestor Peter the Great, who went to Holland two hundred years ago at the age of twenty-five, in disguise and worked for wages as a ship-carpenter under the name of Peter Zimmerman, lodging in a small house in Saardam. The Czarevitch has had a complete miniature navy yard constructed and fitted out for him on the borders of a lakelet in the grounds of Tsarskoeselo. There he amused himself with building model ships ot war and other craft under the expert tuition of a naval engineer.

A little incident which occurred recently shows how very particular the King is with regard to the training of his boys (says the Windsor correspondent of the Daily Express). Two of the younger ones were riding near His Majesty when the cavalcade passed some men who were working on the road. The men removed their hats, and the King at once doffed his own hat. His Majesty noticed that the boys, in the enthusiasm of their gallop, had not followed his example. He immediately called a halt, took the Princes back .to the workmen, and ordered them to remove their hats. This was, of course, done, and the Royal boys are not likely to forget their duty in this respect again.