MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 22 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is estimated that 36 per cent of the motor cars owned in Ontario, Canada, belong to farmers. A transaction has just been completed by which 63 acres of land at Matamata has changed hands at the price of £BO per ton. Last month the Feilding municipal electricity department, made a neu protit of LT.H 7/1. In August ol 192-1 the nett protit was £'J9 13/8. There are now iutil connections. It may be interesting to know thattiie firm of Coopers, Ltd., oi Wellington, sow up to 3000 acres of land exclusively for the production of seeds each season. , An amusing analysis of the contents ot me collection plate at St. Andrews, Christchurch, was made by tiie treasurer to illustrate what he described as rlic declining popularity of the modest threepenny bit. He stated tfiat in a collection of over £2B on a recent Sunday only £2 was represented by threepenny bits, and £S by sixpenny bits.

The amount of money known to have been collected on August 31 for the. Pearson Memorial Fund was £20,207, £2710 having been received during the month. Preparations are being made for the complete, registration of all the blind people in the Dominion, with the full circumstances of their eases. A defendant, on being fined at the Magistrate's Court, at Stratford on Wednesday last, said to the S.M., "Thanks, old sport," which called from the Bench the remark: "t would like you to remember that this is a Court ol law, and there are no :old sports’ here." Mr O. Jerusalem, of Aokautere, ■alrnerston North, gives public notice that he lias "formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished and abandoned his said surname of Jerusalem ami assumed and adopted and determined henceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use, and subscribe the. name of Williams instead of the said name oi Jerusalem,” For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

At Palmerston North, hi an address on Bishop Selwyn, Captain Preece mentioned that the Maoris did not Know what a bald head was until ihey saw the bishop's. They mistook a bald-headed soldier who fought at Orakau for Bishop Selwyn's, and were dismayed to think a preacher of the Gospel was a fighter, until the captain explained. By the retirement of Mr William Sydney V. Evans from the post of drawing master at Eton ,an extraordinary connection is snapped. From father to son four generations, beginning with Samuel Ev a ns in 1796. have unbrokenly held this position (says the Daily Mail). The first of the family was drawing master for 27 ! years, the second for 31 years, the third for 49 years, and the fourth for 19 years. We doubt whether such a record of continuous service could be equalled elsewhere, it does honour both to the Evans family and to Eton College. The continuity of tilings in England, a continuity that changes hut does not break, is one of the great sources of England's strength.