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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 26 August 1909, Page 4

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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house:—Frozen million: Fair inquiry. Frozen lamb: Stocks are weakly hold. Frozen beef (sides): Market slightly improved.

King Edward was evidently very angry at the insult offered by the Iviil of Ronaldshay to the Counters of Graaard, who, it will be remembered, was Misfe' Beatrice Mills, of New York, but the suggestion that the King's anger was due to an appreciation of American wealth is a piece of odious vulgarity only ippesible to the lower strata of the newspaper world (writes the London correspondent of the San Francisco Argonaut), Lady Granard is a new arrival in England. She is a womau and the wife of one of the King's 1 friends, and she had been publicly insulted. Unless we assume that the King k something lees than a man we need go no further to Account for his indignation. Lord Ronaldshay was incensed because Lady Granard had given her aid in a political contest, and to the aide opposed to Lord Ronaldshay, who thereupon referred to her as a "dumped American heiress who had been fortunate enough to secure a title." What the King said to lord Ronaldshay will probably never be known, but it was sufficient to produce an apology, -which, of course, has no particular value under the circumstances. The King further expressed his* goodwill by inviting Lady Granard to three dinner parties in the course of a single week. This is by no means Lord Ronaldshay'* firot offence. A little I while ago he referred to "Winston Churchill as "that pot-boy statesman I who carried a pint of half-and-half to | Ale-Porter Bannerman" meaning, of I course, Sir Henry Caimpbell-Bannernian, | who was at that" time Premier .

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