GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 22 April 1914, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

j The youngest recipient of a special : constable's medal at the hands of the : Prime Minister at Ruakura last week was a smiling little baby girl, not quite two years of age. Her name is Garth Hay, and she is the daughter of the late Mr Lindsay Hay, who was a member of the Cambridge contingent of mounted : constables on duty in"Auckland during ; the late strike. Subsequent to the strike I Mr Hay was killed at Maungatautari by an accident. The presentation of the father's medal to the little girl was one of the moat interesting, albeit the only one with a touch of sadness, at the large gathering. In a private letter to a friend in the Hawera district, Hon. T. Mackenzie, referring to -the loan floated by New Zealand says: "We had subscribed £20,000,000 for a £4,500,000 lcuui. it was a 4 per cent, loan and the price of issue was £IOO 10s, with the option of conversion into stock of South Australia c.inie out a few days later with a £2,000,000 stock loan at 4 per cent., issue price £IOO, and had only half subscribed. On Monday last the South African 4 per cent. £4,000,000 loan at an issue price ot £!)6 10s, had only 20 per cent, subscribed; that is to say not £1,000,00;) out of the £4,000,000 was subscribed by the public as against £20,000,000 for over £4,500000 subscribed by the public. We brought t out our own loan at exactly the. right ' moment. . . The prices of all our pro Nj duce are keeping good and promise to do so. . . The social side is still occupying a good deal of attention. The week before last I had the. honor of a personal audience with the .King, when many matters of interest were openly discussed. No one else. was,, present 1 wa,s also 'honored by .taking 'partin a dinner at Bucldngham.Npaiaco; it was an exceedingly brilliant affair, andJ.had the pleasure of meeting many outstanding men whose names.are known throughout the world." i Something of a romance touches the life story of the late Mins Jane Logan, an old lady in whose house,at Glasgow was found the enormous sum of £13,000 by the executors, in several reeepttacles, including a stocking and an omfashioned purse bound with an elastic band, a fashion in vogue some 30 years ago. The house where Miss Logan and her brother, who had pre-deceased her, lived, is a four-stoiey building between Saracen Lane and East Campbell Street, Gallowgate. It was well known in the district that the brother and sister had amassed a small fortune, and surprise was often expressed that they u.u not move to more comfortable quarters. About half-way between the house, and the Cross, and the corner of Spoutmouth and Gallowgate, Miss Logan anu her brother, who attained the dignity of a town councillor, carried on a fruit business for upwards of forty years, wnen I they decided to retire, having made a | | fortune. Miss Logan was a little person with sharp features. She was about 8(1 years of age, and maintained the old- ; fashioned style of dress. A few years ago she figured in a pathetic little romance, possibly her only one. On her behalf an advertisement was inserted | in a Olasgow newspaper stating that she wished to marry and was the possessor lof a considerable amount of money. No 1 bridegrooms were forthcoming, however, 1 and the old lady lived on wedded to her l leather pouch. The poor in the district will miss a good friend in Mis* Logan, who, though a frugal liver herself, was not sparing of her money when there was in deserving case to be helped.