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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 153, 1 July 1916, Page 4

iir. J. Pierpont Morgan has, drawn a cheque fo-- seventy-five million dollars (£15,000,000) in payment of his rt-eent purchase of Canadian war loan. This is the largest sum in history paid by cheque. The period for which bank-notes are to continue lega? tender in New Zealand has been extended to the end of the year. The first proclamation on the subject was issued just after the beginning of the war.

One of the "lost industries" of the wajr is that of glassware making, which was extensively Carried on in Belgium prior to the German invasion. An effort is now being made to establish the industry in Australia* and this week eighty expert American glass-blowers arrived to take up employment there.

"In all the large cities of America the people arc keen for war with Mexico, but in the interior the feeling is lukewarm." Such was the opinion expressed by Mr. Luke Manor, of Pittsburgh who is now on a visit to Auckland, in discussing the prospects of Avar between the United States and Mexico.

The grain returns, compiled from the amount carried over the Southland section of the railways, up to Saturday last (says the Southland Times) show that almost 50 per cent, more grain was handled in Southland tin's season than last year, the figures being 600,847 sacks this year against 425,107 sacks last season. Farmers complain that at the prices ruling this season, and the high, cost of labor, grain-growing does not pay, so we aro sure to sec a decrease in the yield this season.

M.r H. D. Bond, jeweller and watchmaker, has a new advertisement in this issue that should prove interesting to young men, whether they are going to the front or staying at home.

A real bargain in land is advertised in this issue by Mr. Jas. Allan, Karioi. He has 1391 acres of two and a-half sheep country that' he is offering at a very low price, and on buyers' own terms too.

"It is a great pity, in the interests of the outlying districts, where it is in the interests of the whole Dominion to plant successful settlements, that so little educational advantages are offered by the Government. 7 ''—Sir Walter Buchanan, at the meeting of the Wellington Education Board.

Following is Eev. Bates' weather fore: Winds south-easterly strong to gale prevailing. Expect dull weather, with much mist and fog in parts. Heavy rain is to be expected, with rivers rising shortly. The weather will probable become very cold. Barometer has a faliing tendency, but rising after about (24 to 36 hours.

Good fortune has certainly come the way of the maid of the Countess of Wilton, who has left her £20,000 (says an exchange). This, however, is only a third of the amount left by the Misses Cohen to their ex-footman, Mr. Frederick Bradley. In 1911 Mrs. Anna Pilgrim, a Buckinghamshire lady, bequeathed tiic whole of her fortune of £109,795 to her coachman, this, so far as we know, being a record in gifts to servants.

Some years ago the owners of the Bushy Park Estate, near Palmerston, in Otago, offered their property to the Government Land Purchase Department, and their offer was declined, the price being then about £5 per acre. This same property "was sold the other day to Mr. Melhuish, of Christehurch, for no less than £25 per acre. The property is between 1500 and 1600 acres, and was owned by Mr. R. Melvenzie.

A local record in the matter of duration and expensiveness of a divorce suit has been established in Sydney in the Vincent case, in which a grazier asked for a dissolution of marriage o*. account of the alleged misconduct of his wife with a station employee. Mr. i Justice Gordon, found in favor of Mrg. Vincent, dismissed the petition,, and directed that' tne nusoanel pay alj costs. Twenty-four days were devoted to the hearing of the evidence. The addresses by counsel occupie-d no less than 34 hours. The otiicial shorthand writers ltael a busy time. .They etealt with the tidy aggregate ox 47i>,ei00 words. The judgment took nearly two hours to deliver, ueing tne longest to date in thu uiycrce juriseuction of tne btate. The expenses wiucn the unauocessrui nusOaiLU had to amount to about, £SJOO.