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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 October 1902, Page 4

The unveiling of the memorial cairn to the late : Sir J. KcKenzie at Palmerston South has been fixed for the 7th November. Writing from Brisbane, under date 21st Sept., to a Wellington merchant,, a gentleman largely interested in the produce trade says :—“ Queensland is almost dead at present, due to the disastrous effects of the drought. I notice you people are having a good innings out of New South Wales and Queensland with of beef and mutton, as well as all dairy produce* and it certainly looks like drawing upon New Zealand for all supplies up to and including the Christmas demand. Hams should be a good line to send here. The supply is short, and I expect one shilling and threepence per lb will be easily obtained (prices obtainable in N. Zealand are Sd and 9d). Not a sign of rain yet, and drying westerly winds prevail, with determination to destroy crops of all sorts, as well as any herbabe. It is simply terrible here. How we do envy you the glorious rains we hear of !” Of the 6,500,000 people of London only about 1,500,000 attend any place of worship. Ahorse was sold at the-JSxetahuna pound last week for 2s a leg, and sixpence for his carcase. Statistics have been collected of the height of 10,000 English boys and men. At the age of seventeen (says the Family Doctor) these averaged sft Bin ; at the age of twenty-two, sft 9in.. At seventeen they weighed 10.2 ; at twenty-two, 10.13. No nation is increasing in height and weight so rapidly as the British., In fifty years the average has gone up for the whole nation from sft to sft B|in. The average height of the British upper classes at thirty year's of age is sft B|in and of the farm labourer sft 7 3-sin The criminal class brings down the average, as their height is but sft 5 4-sth.