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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 January 1914, Page 5

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Mr T. C. Webb has been appointed as the New Zealand secretary of the London College of Music.

The Royal Society of Arts has awarded the Swiney prize of £IOO and a cup valued at £IOO to Mr J. W. Salmond, LL.B., Solicitor-Ceneral of New Zealand, for work in jurisprudence, —London cable.

The death is announced from Paris by cablegram of Francis De Pressense, journalist, who was one of the foremost champions of Dreyfus and promoter of the Entente Cordiale.

Mr Jas. Cresswell has been appoint. ed probationer at the local High School, and Misses Rosalie James (second year), Bertha Palmer (second year), Annie Kelleher (second year), Vera Corney' (first year) probationers. The notification of the above appointments was read at the; local school committee meeting from the Education Board last evening.

The. Empress of Germany is the best-dressed woman on a European throne. She does not buy her dresses in Paris, but in Berlin, London, and Vienna. Counting every item, the Kaiserin spends about £2OOO a year on dress. The Queen of Holland is said to be the worst-dressed Sovereign. In spite of this, she manages to spend about twice as much on hor clothes as does Queen Mary. The former spends about £4OOO a year, whilst the latter spends, on an average, about £2OOO.