MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 15 March 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

This is how thev deal with purveyors ii*L' milk who add water to the nourishment in South Australia. A defendant Wiis lined in all £f.U), and had to foot rlie bill for an advertisement in the three daily papers in that city, giving his name, place of abode, and the nature of each offence of which he was committed, together with the penalty imposed. This treatment should soon end the watered milk industry.

The publication of a history of New Zoaland Methodism was decided upon by the Methodist Conference. .The work of compilation lias been placed in the hands of the Rev. W. J. Williams.

Savants who have stufliecl the sub-j ject say that in America and Austra- I lasia it costs about £265 to bring up* a child ill an average family from J birth to the sixteenth year. j

An Australasian pastoralist, who was emploved in buying British wool in the South of Kngland ami in Ireland, says that the sooner we return to the open market the liotter. Ho formed the opinion thai (here is ii ring amongst ICu"-lish manufacturers, and that. foreign competition would give :i healthier tone to the market. Brown v. as going to have some alterations mailc to his home and asked ,l o:l os u -i,(, l,;ol just got rid 'of the builders Ihe I'l'.-i way to go about if. "On " siti'i -'ones, "you call in n decent lniildcr anil tell him the limit von are prepared to pay out. being sure ','„.,( .;.,» -ium von mention to him is about ii quarter of what you have for the alteration*, and then, if you are lucky, and keep your wife away while the work is proceeding, you may get about half of uhnl you want done for about twice the total sum you want to \ pran of praise for the "mighty British Kmpira" appears in the Junker ~.,,1 formorlv Pan German "Kreuz

Zcitunc" 1' is by the writer on international politics. Otto Hotsch. He compares the present situation in Britain with that of the Roman Empire at it? apogee, and abounds in tributes of admiration for the political genius and literal constitution practice of British statesmen. XeVer was Britain's position so strong throughout history. He marvels aT the skill with which the Dominions nave been welded into one close Imperial union during the war. Jn her Imperial development the writer compares Britain with Home, pointing out how in India and Egypt we are conferring Imperial citizenship upon the outlying inhabitants of the Empire. There is not the smallest -chance, he warns the Germans, of the British Empire breaking UP. cither on Nationalist

or Bolshevik grounds. At Antwerp, her new naval base, she holds the bridgehead of the Continent. Approximately SfiOO acres of Crown lands"in the Nelson Land District, according to a notice in this week-'s "Gazette." Ire set apart for the purposes of Part IT. (State Coal Mines) or the Coal Mines Act. B«S. At a meeting at Falmerston North last. week, ir was stated that the men who were making unprecedented profits at the present time were some of the building contractors, who were Overwhelmed with orders for work, who could afford to pick and choose their jobs, and who "just charged what they lilted."