THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923. LOCAL AND SERIAL.

Otaki Mail, 13 August 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923. LOCAL AND SERIAL.

In HU?> there were I s smroe operating in Wanganui ami Suburb.-". Non there are <>•>. ill one jn.-l a nee in iho r’nliinlua <li~triet it is reported liial 10 applications Were received lor ehee.-e factory managership. .V i.'eihiing stock farm i- lamenting the departure of a elo'iii who lia.- not honoured a lit 11«* areount for ap P 1 \ 1 mutely £.1.100 on a 'leal in sheep, tile latter having been purchased m tile Wairarapa. “J stand by the j• ii:.■ -;j.>'■ teat it a limn doesn't pay his mb's by the stipulated time, lie should not be enI titled to vole.”—A delegate at the I eouferenee of New Zealand s bounties' Association. A tpolbourue merchant. writing to a Nelson resident, state-: '‘New Zv><land beef and mutton are making a [ name for themselves here just now. ] Our foiis tried both and agree ikat our meat is not in the same row,--The habit of attache g fancy number plates to motor-cars has been disapproved by the tratio: iu-peefr at Christchurch, amt motorists are informed that they must adhere to tin i old instruction of a white mark on a J black background. | The Knnghikei County Council haj received tenders for the erection of a j bridge over the Kangitikei llivor at Erew hon. which will be an important link between Taihape and Napier, as it will enable the .journey to be made in a few hours. A peculiar freak of nature observed in Kitlmut recently (states the Argus) was that of a primrose bud, just blooming out, which was growing from the edge of one of the leave-, entirely detached from any stem. The bud v, as quite robust looking. * ‘ What is a man to do with all his ‘dud’ cows at the end of the season.”’ asked a young farmer at u recent meeting iu the Wairarapa. ‘‘Shoot ’em,” reolied one old farmer, ‘‘and iet the good Tins have the grass.” "'feed •'em to the pigs,” tvas another reply, i We presume i remarks the ‘Wairarapa Standard : j there will be a plentiful supply of bacon next year. While illustrating to the parents at the dental hygiene lecture at Alas terton how the majority of people discarded the most nutritious portion Of the food and gave the children the rubbish, Colonel Hunter stated that if tlie hens were given the same stuff j that was put before the children, people would nut get much in the way of eggs. Amusing stories of notes received by school teachers, explaining the absence of pupils, are frequently told. Here (says the Gisborne “Times”) is the text of a note that came to the Gisborne main school last week: “Please excuse John for being away halt a j day: his mother is in hospital with a little baby. I will tee it doesn't happen again.” ! Are you requiring footwear. Here j are a few of our many clearance lines: j Gent ’s South African field boots, all ,-i/cs. 2b/-. town price 32/0; Ladies' Glace shoes, plain trouts. It. l f ; Suede luce shoes, 22/0, Ward shoes, few pair: left. 7/(5; Girls' one bar shoes, sizes 1 and 2. 0/0; Girls’ goloshes, 2/6 to j clear: Baby's soft soles, boots and shoes. 1 /- —-act Irvine s .rhore Store, j Olaki. —Advt.

In .12 hours 35,000 vehicles pass the Mansion House London, and 30,000 pass Liudgate Circus. * * What do you do for a living’ ” queried Mr. Hunt, S.M., oi Alexander Gough in the Detune Police Court. ‘‘Oh, I just scratch along, ” laconically returned the defendant. Philatelists throughout New Zealand and elsewhere will be interested to know that the suggestion to issue a new stamp to mark the reintroduetion of peun y postage lias been approved by tlie Postmaster-General (Hon. .1. C. Coates), and the issue will come out on Oct obex' 1. •‘it is deplorable lo think that the conditions in New Zealand are ideal I‘nx' rearing super-men. yet tin pel' cent, of the children in our schools sutler disease oilier than dental diseases, remarked Colonel Hunter in an address to parents he gave in the Wairaiapn. Including dental disease the percentage rose to PP. An 'amusing incident oeeuii'cd '.luring a marriage service in an Auckland 'Hctiiodist church recently. !he otUciating niinistcj had jusl reached the most solemn and itnpxesstve pull oi the ritual when the gravity of tan congregation was upset by the sudden I appearance of a white goal. uhud: 1 walked down the aisle and collided forcibly with the bride, it was necessary to suspend the ceremony until | the animal was removed. I The farm lands adjacent to Muta- * mala continue to draw favourable comment from visitois. A party of American doctors who arc on tlu-ii wav to attend the .Melbourne •''dentists' Conference, in passing through, wci e iicaid 11* compare the outlook to that of Illinois. In conversation they said that they had Travelled both Islands of New Zealand, but load nowin.*re >ec!i ihe growth of gni?** us on the country between Morriusv ilic and Matnmuta. "New Zealand is a marvellous routine, bill with one outstanding tci'i lent 111'*'." they said, ihe railway facilities. Veil- tew race m 'eliags jets- without attempts being made to j>ass wrong tickets through I lie pay-out window of the i ota lisa tor. The recent meetings in Gisborne have been no exception to the rule ! sni's the Gisborne Times) for pay-out clerks report several such efforts, .Maoris being the principal uUVndm s. One of their favouiite schemes is to present a bundle of ticket s containing a jn-rcentuge oi ‘‘duds. This scheme is usually worked on a favourite, in the liojie that in the rush to pay tiie cla moui'i ug' <|Uei:e of winner.the clerk will not notice the wrong tickets among the good one-. 1.0n.g experience of [laying out aad loiali-m----tor work lias, however, acquainted the clerks .wit h ail such schemes, and very rarely is one of these sueec-ssl'ul. A .Manakau siib-'el'iber writes tiiat MVoral interested brei'der.- hove e"mbined through the good oliices and -sit: 1 - fill judgment of Mr. Ik ii- -'uiek. o| Otaki. to import new blood of the best obtainable in liutoiie. with a \n u J •■■■ r ticularly to capturing the eaily In tub rj.arket. -Mr. .''lack's experienci and shill are already w'eji knee,', n in 1 ii«• auirltei and in the A. amt !’. Show:-: but with til- aecut.i a of the P' iz- ■ winner he decided that., bet rue buying show animals, he must iir.-t b-arn 'lie r Kagii-h method by which defective ’ point.- were sucees - fui'y “ d:-gu •He ha.- the/elure taken up a posit.oi, as • shepherd on one id the most niued ■ i,• ling stations in Krighunl. \\ hen i’ ... newest method- of pt.'p'i'iag -lac; j*.,r pri/.e cntnp.'titlot.- and bd' ■••!.• an.' It lo.rougi;i>' as-imilated, Mr. i will make his selective purchase;, and return with them to O'nkh Jr. ihe early dav- of Madge.■ i New South Wale.-, it wa- a coma -'a’d f to see con vie; - geMuig Joiiy m hi :y la.-li-s. <»i.i ir-eoi'd- at the local Couri i show that tor i.eing roll late at nigrd. I get ting d run It -and other if -ml ‘ ll , ■ the triangle. The scvei'e-t maa in those days was a magistral.' named ’ I Furlong, w’no died suddenly one night ;, at the Gruttui Hotel. Two convicts I were sent from M"e i _ ■to l-ring tin ho ly to ’.*.. e in a dray. Overjoyed ;at the dentil of Furlong. >L-v • '."pded 1 to indulge in a spree and became . er> 1 merry. On the return trip limy -elect--1 , ed the roughest parts oi Uo‘ mroi 1 , a means of paying oil' old *?•»«» : again-, their late eiieiiiy. aii'i caimered ; ! the hor-e. while they sang: “Hattie 1 hi- bo lies, over the -tones; lie - o'd. a s ! •yrtint whom nobody own-. - ' ’1 hey ert ’ livened the lit-ighitourhood it thn . j dit tv until Mud gee was reached, when, l; the g-aoi cm ironineiit sobered them. : : In 1 -levs Mr. W. (i. Rutherford. 1‘ ~ , j of London. when he was at < ask more j Chri.-tehureh. many psxkeku- :requ* , < eiite<! p.Mfii.sive >wainp> near the ! house. Good grew in places I where the hud bet*n drasiwl. ■ j It was found that, although the pukokos were very used ul in deploy big •Tubs, they rubied the fields. pulling i],>tvii stalks ami eating graia. Boys were sent at harvest -hne to keep them oft. but a> tkeie w; .y no ;« ri- . the pukekos discovered a -y.rtVm oi watching the hoys, and evaded ibem. The leas? xtiovein<?nt a men g the corn was noticed, and away tie* ra?<H*2would go. baek to a svvamp* - 1 -*--- Rutliernird adds, in a letter to a Southern contemporary: “Manj* y• • later, in the* North Island. Ae * iX ‘- many half-time pukekos around our house. ’A. never mlow.-d O'. jto shoo: th.-ai. Tb'ty ■- 0 - u: -* and omamomai. v.dtn J beneath their red sealing toP- ’ knots. They effectrrdy dealt vrtth the grass-grub and other insect pests. It would i,c an evil day for Xew Zealand if these exquisite dandic-s, with their brilliant blue costume-.- and their flirt-.- little v.T.ife ytiils, became extinct.'’ lias anyone seen Fred Barrett i He left Otaki Railway a few weeks back. Reward on taking your boot: and =ko>.-? to his new premises, Otaki township. A-ivt.

AVhitobait has: r.iado Us r pp'n-Mf o*' in small quaiitiiics in ii;e UiUKi f. iu. . and a few catches are recorded. The tables of disease from which , Londoners die show that bronchitis and pneumonia are easily the most deadly. ! Forty per cent, of patients admitted to mental hospitals in the Dominion last year were cured. S3O patients | being admitted f.or the year. While searching* oil liiverton beach I (Otago) a young man found about £3OOJ wort It of ambergris, which w as in good condition and quickly found a buyer. Attempts are to be made this summer to recover the £5.000,000 in bullion which was lost in the Lusitania. torpedoed by the Germans in 10! 5. Household pets are losing their popularity among children. Boys especially are now more interested in - wireless ami other mechanical apparat us. The unique spectacle of girls riding to school on the backs of calves may if* witnessed in a district not many miles from On main (says the Times). ‘•Wanganui La>{ i s an instance how a town should not be laid out.’’ was a remark ma-V* at the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, when town planning was being discussed. The Lost Office oHicials in this dis- • lict are now »fleeted bv the influenza, ami it* consequence at Otaki the stall lias been considerably reduced. Mr. Baugh en is Jiiling Miss 'Morrison's plaee at Otaki Railway, while M r>. Bradshaw *s position ;*1 Mnmilanu, is ailed by York. Mr, Young is still’ relieving at Tokomaru. i lie <'eremonial ferm «•!’ Ohinese conversation is very amusing. Here is an example given in *‘The indiscie- • ion> ».d* Lad v Susan.* * by Lady >usun Tow nicy, w hose husband was at one lime attached to the British Legation in iVkin: ( L >: “Distinguished and aged. Wu. what is your lionourable age**- -A. *‘Alas, honoiiralde lady, I have wasted do vear-!” Q.: "How many worthy voting gentlemen sons have you. - - A.: “My fate i< beggarly: ! have but one little bug.” < t >.: “Bow is your L.\celieticy *s favoui’c'd w ile. A.: • * Thank you. madam! The foolish •ne of the family is well.*’ W Ikoi ;ii Ruling to hint.-elf in conversation, i hough it may go against the gratii. Chinese ideas of politeness require that a man should make use of such expressions as the above, and speaking of his family he is bourn! to quali iv them as '•little,” “mean,” ■ * >1 ujiid ’ ’ or ‘ ‘ cheap. The Borough Council's proposal to • train the Jlokowhitu lagoons will, according to a resident’> opinion, desiiov one of the sources of profit in the poulli'v industry in that vodnity. Oin* or more poultry keepers successl ully combine tile pleasure and excitement f iishing for record sized eels, with the profit of feeding the cooked lisn to the Jowls. Oji one occasion a dozen huge eels, lie* result of an hourAs iun, vnv j.Jaeed in a large pot on lire kic eheu range to cook for the morning aieal of ihe egg-makers. A mid-night visit to ihe kitrheji by the nurse.Ju Care feet. ]»roducc*rl that sensation **f • seeing snakes. ’ u -uahy e>; p»*j'o*m;ed i,y the other sex after j .rot jac t e«* in ujdulg«.*nce in dope. Ihe eels objected 'o the warmth, and had quickly found },<• floor, when* the >1 aided lady saw dam- squirsTng around in search ot 1 a i.• • v hole. tln ough v. h icij to had | -vaier. which was not thermal. ! Wiiii this week's issue oi. the “New j Zealand Spurting and Dramatic K«*i view.’* the |*iojnietor- have excelled 1 *hemselve> in. their efforts to produce j .:a up-to-date jiietorial -ou\enir de bjx ,J . ! Football enthusiasts will :<*gar«! it with ' pride, generous spa,c. ; lieirg ai- ; lotted *o this n.o-t popular pastime*, i The Auckland Ladies’ Golf Champion* 1 -hip M Middiemon; *- out-land-ing prominence '*' a selection oi photograph- <»f competitors and tim cnam* : h'/ii : til":. 1;,. Tlxv North : ll.>iii u A mu’ vlt X' <,.'hatii£»ion.*hil> " iJ! ; a!-.j -:.ii. jxl.-xity '.I attention. The j 0;-i.ort.e St. "[.leehri'C a.' -eti n L' it the : -ul-jeci -I IX striking -nI inineijiie eveiit-. while the tuji'by yresu- . -liij) conte.-t at Htineu.-ter i’urk, Christekurih, rtxver-i a -pkn'li.x .'<-1 : tioil, A page is oev Ote J Jo .tinfaetei is ! tie picture's of the late J.’lesidelrl Hurd j ing. The* rnisc'cllaneous section in- > ,-lij.bv- a w idv and varied rang*' from the ■ world'- bc'-t sources, ami the Mage, ; ..jotioa picture and society eomprirtexceptionally attractive a-i-ortuiexxt ) tint will xxppcal to all. The paper ..a -ale at all book.-eller and -xtationi erA dance will he held at the ka.pire Hail tO-liittlxt. i a house, furnished or unfurnished, is advertised I or. j .Mr. li, Cockrell has a replace ad- ; vertisemeiif in tins issue. I Skating will >»c indulge'*! in. at Dm* j town hall to-night ami to-morrow night. ; Mc.-ts McDougall and Lo.. Ltd., m- • sort a revised price-list in this issue. | A liotiee u»:u the I'u'die reI i&tive to the e-taf of the late | Dunn appears, in this issue, j Mr. Joe Grant, having lost po't.- from j [,ro;..‘r!y at Waituhu. refjue:t- the j ;.er.-on who rf-:»0v..-<l them to return •hem at once ami ~ave further trooMe. Memocr: and the Te Hoxo Co'.v-te-txtje A.-ociation :x:e r«-xn:;: led of a ne'-etin-” at -Mr. 1.-t.i----on \Ve.:;:-:d:xy at i..e). The Manakau Farmer-' Union Un to be held ut-morrow night ihotdd he a record success and visitors axe expoeiea from all pans. tVe remind subscriber.- to the Otaki public library of the meeting to be Held io-iiicrrov.' at - o'clock, to eoniirm the action of the committee ia Ting the library land and building. The Bowlers' bal on Thursday promise: to be “the- event of the season’’ and a record attendance is ;.-v;-r-t--d. Already some SSO rorth oi tickets have been sold.

From royalties on gramaplione rev ords alone, Caruso, the famous ltaliau tenor, received not less than £-145,000. To provide all men and women in Great Britain with a pension of 20s a week at (»5 vear s of age would cost £130,000,000 a year. The Te Iloro and Convent Schools were to-day closed on account of tkc influenza. The Native School hopes to re-open on "Wednesday. At the meeting of the Horowlieuuu c ounty Council on >iatimlay, it was announced that the eonleienee engineers to consider the question of the erosion at the >naniton Bridge will be held at Shannon at 11 a.in. on Wednes- . ..y. Lot it of this month. Mr. T. Buxton, organiser to the primary producers, wa- W» have addrossc.i a meeting at Otaki oil Friday evening, but on account of the influenza many were prevented from attending, and in consequence Mr. Buxton adjourned the meeting. He will probably give an address at the next Otaki sale. “We don't want to make the mis. take that the Harbour Board did—amp I•»r about unity years on a spot an>i then nnd out nliat it belonged to somebody else,*' said one ot the members at a meeting of tiie Wanganui iinfepayeis’ Asportation ret.vmly. •It Was like the ease "1 a man at ca>-ii«> eiiff who built a and then found mil that it was on another man’s section. Did New Zealanders realise lam wonderful their country was and tin.* as>et i! possessed in its climate.' Tiiis question was asked bv Mr. R. A. Burrows, a Canadian visitor, of an Auckland reporter. He had had n drive about the Mangere ami Ttunakt districts, and could say that lie had ( never seen such a country. “My friend 1 drove a fat pony home and turned him out into a paddock with plenty of grass, ami this in the dead of w inter," said Mr. Burrows. “in Western Canada, stock had to be stalled and hand fed for seven months in tin* year. A t Westlicld L saw fat bullocks* straight from tiie paddock, the like oi: which are unknown in Canada. it would he no use trying I«» give i tie price these £lO Jus steers would bring in Canada, because there is nothing to compare with them. I In nr people gnuiilJung about hard )tin.* . but what aie hard times in a country with -m il a climate idea of the material, apart Id . butter-i'at, required by the dairy indu - try was given by Mr. A. J. Simdn r. assist ant manager «.f tin- New Zealand Co opera?,i ve Dairy Company, in the course j>{ liis addres.-, at the Auckland Chamber ot ('ommeiee luncheon. At a ronservat i w estimate lo* placed the value of goods imported for tile indu--try in the Auckland [>ro vince during tin* past season at £550,000. and showed that all parks of the world contributed to the su]»jdy. Specialised machiiiciv. he said, came from tlreyL’nited Stao - and Denmark; timber, oils, nails, v.io, te>tware. and parchment, came from Britain and the Failed States. L ; :- Jninglia jig e-pe. dally produced eoii-id-‘••raidr- <juantiiies of iron. --teid. ; •! mechanical a];{d ia nee: ; and from Mm. 'liester tL• • industry drew most ul iu lequisCiliCrd s i h t lit* sll.'lpe of bandage-, caps, and bult'er doth. J/a ry >alt wa> j-. •** *• i ve* J from Che-hir*-. and tinpl.'jte. iron and st.e*.*l from Wai**”. ihdgnim contributed parchment p-p >rand froi.t CnlcuUa the ca-eiu received a Jaige quantity of .-ae}:-. J here J- .• •> m sio-joe tiiiiig-. Ji’ i'Mestly, <j\ tin; Sudan .Mj.shOjJj, wd iiy inoi jo-ojved a. kTbu Jrom Mi h. N, Mat I>i;«in; id, a jiji 'Monary, tbaid:11igr linn o*r tiie gut *d an accord*.'.*!* .Mi MucLia.i iiod sta tbat uno Uig v. hen fje v, <j;s pi a*. Jig '‘so j.< J.eiiyM the oalive.- gathered r*/im J, ■ did the -trains ol tiie music iwd '-aJVilig eilect-. \>'o/iieii sv.’ayed, die non d.iii'/cd iheni.sulve.s mio a L'e/i/-, and 'die nadive iaugtied so iiiiiiiek!a*.eJy tiia:, he was seized with Ji\ stex’.a, , n o had re* receive froatnum. ,3r*i M:c i!Jai'iuid •ozed the a'.-doj'deoip .nd toil ii away till they recovered ■ fiii\) . -u i ■ . The im. . j.. then astoiiJMiruorit that so gnej*. i noise, couhi eome Jrofu -uidj *. ■ • e ffis’n.modir,. What the natives vvih dv when they hear the bagpipes ohe on!v ooJiieetine. Mr McKenzie i o* be*,-, ui con ve: .sat* •*• a Wanganui Herald repj.>*b -aid some people -seerneri to b- *• ' goal objection to planting n.aflKb He von - I d.e i ed i r. vv a s, * >i i e o t the hoshrub- they could in trod i *i :'rdi j i/*sor inounLj>rious countrv /• N *.•■> Zealand, it was vnjuaba: : .. trA ’■[ sh*-».-/i .a*d .u addition iby. Ji-v'd heard of farau-s aj.-.mg shwer, .n ’i.v Higrblan*!.-. . > .ifi.i ij.uirig -rmy Viiitit. Ir. reason .v<a~ that *b'u sheep when snowed in hod plen'y h'"d to keep them alive. The muh-W b;d on h*-ather was al<s> very pniTu b!(:. Mr M I'orbei added if ?he bannei- of .Southland would ..atraduce bember they would no* iba-e a repetition of the losses experience J during the recent storm*? The tiso oi moihi i'.aia- .ai'jfey out f * places during dances is a pwo *i e which inotorist-i believe should :k discouraged in Gisborne, say: ••fojvertv Bay Herald/* I gist car wars left outside the City while its owner attended a danoe'-e'fT ■ '.onrend- that the lights w witched on. \A*hen the polinertia.* :ame along, however, the light-’ /• r -‘ out. end the owner \va.s accordmgb charged witTt* the offence. Lourusi appearing on Tus l&htxM allege* 1 practice Of '•sitting--out” oft tfle of loving couples as the cause o' - r F car owner 4 b trouble. He timt such a couple h*M • eppare.c-c used ‘he or, but before doing c o by* 1 of necessity to switch off the Lt.f Sight, thereby also turning out Td headlights. WTien they left the ta>' they omitted to switch the lighu ; again, and hence the absence of L?- ;:S i when the policeman came, j Among the many new and cut res'- , mg pictures siiowa by Bishop A’ bI in the course of his jec-iure on Pay--' I tine at Aueklaiid was an (tin photo graph showing one oi the - i jand Mounted Rifles floating on ! naci: in the Dead Sea, reading a ! and holding an umbrella over j /lead. He said trial the vvaterc f * r -’ ; iOa were the saitest ever known, '* r * J 1 'hey were so buoyant that ho.'W-) were puzzled hi swimming, :hey were unable *o Another amusing picture Was -bowing excavations made by *yT n /- in ihe English Church at / Salem. it appears that the '! y*y heard there were canons coaii> ' :i with this Church, and these c- - • tions were made with a view to covering them. For brc-ncbiaJ Coogp s, trike - Woods 4 Great J?eppermin£ Cure,

Bleak House, at Broadstairs, made famous by Dickens, now has wireless installed.

In reply to the query: “How does vour husband treat you?” a witness at the Thames Police Court said: “He doesn’t treat me at all. He drinks on ids own.”

Human bones, believed to be those of persons who died in the Great Plague of 1664-1666, when many bodies were buried in pits in East Condon, have been excavated by workmen behind Thames Police Court, Stepney, E. The paper used in printing- Bank of England notes is manufactured at a special mill in Hampshire, where no worker is allowed to enter any part of tlie building other than the room where he is employed. The him version of “This Freedom,” -Mr A. S. AX. Hutchinson’s novel, Ims been sold by ideal Films, Ltd., of London, to the Fox Film Corporation of America lor £20,000, said 10 be a record, figure.

A fully equipped Imitation coal mine w ill be provided for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley next year by the institute of Mining Engineers and the Mining Association of Great Britain. A Melbourne merchant, writing to a Kelson resident, states: "New Zealand beet and mutton are making a name lor themselves here just now. Our folk tried both and agree that our meat is not in the same row.”

No fewer than 46,000 families are in \ xeunM. without a place to live. They cannot rent even one room, because since 1913 not one house has been built in Vienna, which is now the poorest *ny in the world. In some cases Jour or live families live in one small loom.

There will be a partial eclipse of die moon on the night of the 26th. .Blie will enter the imbral shadows at 9br. -Minin.; centre ol same at. lOhr. 'J.ainin; and puss out of the shadow at lOhr. 57min. p.m., New Zealand mean time. The amount of the moon obscured at the- greatest phase is a fraction Jess than one-sixth.

“Vour Worship, a 30-inch iiipe is as easily handled by men who know liow to do it as you would handle a pair of socks.'-’ This quaint statement was addressed by a councillor to the Mayor at a meeting oi the port Chalmers Council when culverts under roads were under discussion. The suppliers to the shannon dairy factory have just received a welcome bonus of lid per lb. of butterlat .supplied during the season. Added to the average monthly payment of 1 Of, this made a total for the season of .1/8 per lb. of butterlat. This is a record for the Dominion for the past season, the nearest pay-out being the Hawern Co., 1/73.

■'lt is fairly certain that the Bight 1 lon. David Lloyd George will make a lecturing tour of New Zealand towards the end of this year,” said Mr Victor Beck, in conversation with a representative of the Qarnaru Mail recently. Mr Lloyd George is already booked to tour Canada and the States, and it is expected that the tour will eiid at San Francisco in September. Arrangements are now being made for the tour to embrace New Zealand and Australia. The intention is for Mr Lloyd George to deliver sixty lectures in Australasia.

Did New Zealanders realise how wonderful their country was and the asset it possessed in its climate? This question was asked by Mr VS. A. Burrows, a Canadian visitor, of an Auckland ’ reporter. He had had a drive about the Mangere and Taniaki districts, and could say that he h.ad never seen such a country. “My friend drove a fat pony home and turned him out into a paddock with ] den tv of grass, and this is the dead of w'inteT,” said Mr Burrows. “Tn Western Canada, s.tock has to be stalled and hand fed for seven months in the year. At Westfield I saw fat bullocks straight from the paddock, the like of which are unknown in Canada. it would be no use trying to give the price those .Cl 6 10s stem's would bring in Canada, because there nothing 1n compare with them. I hear people grumbling about hard times, but what «re hard times in a country witli such a. climate? ’ Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails.