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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5

Some funny combinations are built up now and then on the bowling green. At a Wellington green recently Messrs Currie, Ginger, and Pepper were on the same side.

The flow of good fortune in the matter of windfalls to the British Exchequer from the] estates of millionaries has been checked by an unexpected development of the case of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. It was naturally expected (writes a London correspondent) that her estate would make a notable contribution to the revenue. It turns out, however, that during her lifetime arrangements were quietly, irrevocably, made for transference to Mr Burdett-Coutts of all funds and property over which she had control. At the time of her death she was merely a lodger in the ancestral home at Stratton Street, dependent upon her husband for pocket-money.

The' hours of labour in Belgium, says a consular report, are long. The labourer begins work at 6 a.m. and ceases work at 7 p.m. with the usual break for meals. He is paid on the average BJd to 4£d an hour for ten hours, and 25 per cent, more for two additional hours, making his daily wages 3s 6d to 4s 4d for twelve hours. Children begin their lifework as early as twelve years, though the law compassionately provides that no child under sixteen years of age shall be kept at work for more than twelve hours a day! A Belgian statistician estimates the average earnings of an artisan, child labourjjbeing included in his calculation, at about £32 a year. Numerous factories have been established there by British firms, owing to the low cost of labour.

Dk Sheldon's MAflssTto Lin'hknt Will relievoat bncjHfteuraHtisai, Lumbago Lame Back, Cuts, Bruises, Bum*, and con liuued applications will effect a care io a remarkably ihoit t : me. For ailo by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Cartevton, and the Maurioeville Co operative tore, Mauriceviile West.