THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 10 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

The art treasures of the late Mr Pierpont Morgan .have officially been valued at £10,000,000.

Herr Karl Hagenbock, the famous animal collector and zoologist, died recently as the result of a snake bite which ho received seven years ago. The venom set up a fatal disease.

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New York lias now the tallest build- I ing in the world. The new structure, ' l which will be known as the Woolworth Building, rears itself to a height of , 7-30 ft. !

'•'There are only two carriers usethis road ” asked Mr D. M. Find-j lay of Mr A. J. McCurdy, clerk of j the Upper Hutt Town Board, at the! Flutt road enquiry. “Except the un- 1 dertaker,” said Mr McCurdy,” “We’ll came to him presently,” said M Find-: lay. “We all do,” rejoined Mr McCurdy.

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“Grocers assistants are a drug on the Auckland market,” said Mr Rosser at Auckland. “A week or two ago an Auckland firm advertised for an as-

sistant and thirty-nine had answered the advertisement before 9 o’clock in the morning. They are flocking into ; Auckland from all parts of the Do-' minion and some from Australia, to say nothing of those coming from Homo attracted by the immigration ; boom.”

A solicitor nmed Sherrry recently I died at Watford, in Essex, and left I an estate of £42,000. In his will to ! stated that he had a dread of being placed underground, and implored his , executors to put his remains in a ; catacomb, on to cremate them. He i

also directed that a minute anlytical examination should be made of his body before it was finally disposed of, and stipulated the complete removal of his heart.

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An acre of silver beet sown in December on Mr J. Crawford Anderson’s farm at Stirling under supervision of the Department of Agriculture iuis shown remarkable progress, the plants being now two or three feet high.. The plant is a substitute for rape in fattening sheep, and does extremely well in Central Otago.

Some remarkable features were disclovsed recently in a case at Swansea, Wales, in which a ybung woman was granted a summons against her husband, by whom kshe had been deserted. The woman stated that when she was married her husband was not earning more than 9s a week, and that the last money she received from him was onlw 4d.

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The death of an elderly woman, the widow of a policeman, brought about a remarkable discovery in Colchester, Essex. It was generally believed that the woman was in the por rest of circumstaneccs, and that she had died in poverty. When, however, her cottage came to be searched, the discovery was made that she had £IOOO in gold and silver concealed in different corners of the.house.

Whatever may be said of young New Zealanders with regard to their lacking a sense of humour it cannot he. sdd that the yre non-observant. A little while, ago the children of a certain Taranaki school were asked to write an essay on New Zealand birds. One bright youngster in describing the “Tni” had the following: “The Tni is sometimes called the parsm bird because it likes to get up as high as it can and make funny noises in its throat.”

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Mr R. E. Waite, curator of Canterbury Museum, has received a specially interesting fish. It was sent to him hy Mr Carl Jansen, of Kaikoura, who caught it off the coast near the town. The fish is too rare to have a popular name, but it bears an exceptionally long scientific name, Melanostigma gelatinosum. For a long time only one specimen, obtained in the Magellan Straits, was known to iehthylogists, but another one was found in the South American waters some time ago. The Kaikoura specimen is the first noted in Australasian waters, and Mr Waite points out that its discovery is another link in the chain of evidence which brings the fauna of South. America and Australia together. Warner’s Rnst-proof Corsets. ,In the latest models, the bust is low and full. Flexible eorsetting above the waist is the result—the newest figure fashion. Perfect comfort with figure elegance. x , . V - A.-'* 4 * - X *.-JU -.