ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 218, 24 September 1901, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ttaa Hod. Jss. Carroll once oracaMid: -" The Boss can shake a leg any company." This was a reverent to the extreme versatility of Hjpfr Seddon, as it is indeed an epigramexplanation of the tatter's con■pttoual political successes over a series ■l'flt yoare. " The Bess can shake a leg Bin any company," onghb, i n f Mti be ■jptaaoribed in brats en a Seddoeian ■| atatae in front of Parliament Honse Hl"'' o * the instruction and benefit of neoB| fhyte politicians now and for ever. ■jl For whether he is addressed in the ■pfMghiNt Lancashire vernacalar tie Hl.diggwa of the West Coast, or dining R| with Yiae-Royalty, or enjoying himself H|L in a country pob, or feasting at a Maori Br nan, or preaching prohibition to pro■k bibitioniitj, or singing " The Wesriog K| id the Green" at a publican's shivbo, Hf, or taking part in a Masonic investiture, ■Eg <w opening a Catholic bazaar, or addrtssa congregation of Sunday-school ■p Mholan, or firing chain-lightning epiKT tiuts at his much enduring secretaries, Kr or Uackgnarding a recalcitrant Cabinet H> Minister, or cozeoiog a c»ncns—in He~ Meh or any of these capacities and a ■k hundred others Mr Seddon is equally ■fir-' •at boose, " The Boss can shake a leg HF; in any" company."—Truth. B|. The National Frovisioner, an AmeriWfc' oaa weekly, gives a striking instance B| of t*e, volume of the business in live Kr stock- done in Chicago. It says: ■P "When the last stock train palled up K. Into the stock yards Tuesday all records ■v except one in the history of the yards ■K' had been broken, and the boUetin board ■I. at the main gate showed that 2214 cars Mp of live stock had been delivered in the H 1 yards, making 38,000 hogs, 29.000 cat B. tie, and 25,000 sheep The only time M|, oa which this record was broken was I Ki Jaly3o, 1894, when 2364 carloads Wf were received. The receipt on Tuesday ■& wen a legitimate record, as thote of W Jaly, 1894, were caused by oatside conBf dhions." K*- It is proposed in the north that a EP~ party of aboet a doz?n men and women K' of the first rank of the Ngapuhi tribe E* should go to England next Maroh, in B&- order to present a lag sent by Ani K Karo,. the Hokianga chief bainess, to WL King Edward. The expenses are to Bp be defrayed by subscriptions raised by H the paople of NgapuhL