THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 3 May 1913, Page 2

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

1 Lord Kitchener has announced at Cairo that an Anglican Bishopric for

Egypt is being created, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury is preparing an appeal for funds.

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Owing to the cost of horse feed and shoeing, the Balclutha drovers have decided (says the Free Press) to raise their charges to 12s 6d per day and 7s 6d per half-day as from May Ist.

The need of having medical assessors to assist a magistrate hearing a case concerning medical treatment was voiced by Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at Auckland on Friday.

The workmen employed at Gamman’s mill, at Waimarino (recently burnt down), informed the manager that they would work for a fortnight without wages in order to assist the proprietor over his misfortune.

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Sir Arthur Pinero, the well-known play-wright, declares that the decline in the the popularity of theatres is due to the fact that smoking is forbidden. The music-halls, in which smoking is permitted, are successful, he says. V

Boarder: “I have named this office July, madam.” Landlady: “Indeed, sir, and why?” Boarder: “Because it is cold and cloudy.” Landlady: “What a brilliant young man. I thought of naming it after you.” Boarder; “Why?” Landlady: “Because it is so long before it settles.’

Speaking at the luncheon following the stone-crucher demonstration, Mr W. Quin (Tapanui) said that 30 years ago he imported for the Tuapeka County the first road-grader in New Zealand. Before the advent of the grader the grading of roads cost £1 a chain, but the machine brought the price down to 5s a chain.

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Mr A. Walker,' Lloyd’s surveyor at Wellington, who recently visited the wreck of the Manaroa, has advised the underwriters that it is quite possible to raise the sunken vessel. As the vessel is insured against a total loss, there is a probability that the underwriters will consider a plan for refloating the steamer.

Spurious coins are in circulation in Christchurch. A tram conductor told a Press reporter that he had lately received several silvered pennies to represent half-crowns, and, although the fraud was easy to detect in some cases, the “fake” was so cleverly done in some instances as to avoid suspicion.

The New Zealand Herald states that additional accommodation is urgently needed at the State Experimental Farm at Ruakura. There are no less than 70 applications in for admission to the institution, but only 12 at a time can be taken in, that being the limit provided for in the present “home” building attached to the farm.

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■ To show how the quality of the land at Chatham Islands varies, a pasenger by Saturday’s boat stated to a reporter of the Lyttelton Times that he knew of a patch of nearly 40 acres in Waitangi which grazed 250 sheep all through the winter, while another area of 10,000 acres some few miles distant would only I provide feed for 500 head.

It was stated in the Auckland Police Court last week that drinking among youths under the age of 21 is on the, increase. Mr, F. V. Fraser, S.M., said that barmen employed in city bars should he of responsible age to discriminate between customers over and under 21 years of age, and between those who should and those who should not be supplied with liquor.

The industry of bull-slaughtering is fast increasing at the Mataura Freezing Works, and a record will easily be established this season (says the Mataura Ensign). So far some 700 have been slaughtered, and it is confidently expected that fully 300 will be put through before the season terminates. The bull beef is boned and placed in corn-sacks, being then put into the refrigerating- chamber and exported to Scotland, where it is mixed with prime beef and made into smallgoods.

A Geraldine lady realises a safe cure for colds in children. She writes: “I have often used Tonkin’:; Linseed Emulsion for my little children, and have proved that it is, a mild and efficacious medicine.” ‘‘What will suit one will not suit another,” applies to some medicines, hut not Tonkin’s Linseed Emulsion. Tt is meant to relieve colds, and it will cure everybody. X