GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 May 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

AUCTION BY CANDLE. A quiint custom over 200 years old, known as the "Candle Auction," for the letting of a field called Stovvell Meadow, situated' at Tatworth, near , Chard, Somerset, ,was observed recently. The tenants on the estate, nf which Stowell Meadow forms part, met at the, villus© inn, and during the burning of an inch of tallow candle madebbi s for renting the ground for n. yeik Certain fines are imposed which are put into a "kitty," and afterwardp spent upon refreshments' for the company.

A WOMAN'S UNUSUAL PROFESSION. I Permission to carry on her dead husband's profession, and consequently become the first .woman bankruptcy receiver in Germany, has just been granted to Frau Rub, of Livndshut, Bavaria. Fran Rub studied for this unusual woman's profession under her husband, and when qualified, became his partner, as well as a chartered accountant in. her own name. So I successfully has she conducted her sharo of the business and furnished convincing proof of her capabilities, that the authorities did not quibble or hesitate, in the least to grant her } request.