NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 57, 23 February 1918, Page 19

NEWS TIT-BITS.

The use of milk, condensed milk, milk powder, dried milk, or any other milk preparation, in the manufacture of thoeolate. is now prohibited in Britain. Asher-de-la-Zouch Guardians recently rejected, by four votes majority, the House Committee's recommendation to jive clogs instead of boots to male children of the outdoor poor. It was the *brand of the workhouse." said some, but others said elozs in Lancashire were lomfortable and more healthy than boots, row largely made of paper. Four Cromwell letters, containing a famous description of the battle of Marston Moor, have been purchased by a lady for presentation to the nation. They are to be included in the collection at Chequers, where the sword carried by Cromwell at Marston Moor has long been preserved. Land in Montreal owned by churches 3nd exempt from taxation is valued by the assessors at 181,504,182 dollars. Buildings upon this land are valued at "5,231,744 dols, making the total of church property exempt 206,735,926 dollars. This is one-third of all real estate values in the city. The latest school census in the Philippines shows that the are about 660,000 Filipino children attending school. For them there are 11,000 native teachers and 500 American instructors. Whan the United States took hold of education in the Island? there were 800 American teacher?. At first the Phillipine teachers assumed charge of the primary work, tben the intermediate, and now come are now teaching in the high schools. At a conference of women journalists T 'ith Sir A. Yapp, it was urged that a Maximum price be fixed for lunch and dinner at the West End hotels, as it Eeemed unfair that women who patronised them should have no check on tjieir food bills when the hard-working C| t.v girl was not allowed to spend more than 1/3 on her lunch. It was further suggested that luxury foods should be included in the scale of rations, so that the rich might not, after consuming weir share of the foods already rationed, supplement their meals with an unlimited supply of the unrationed. A railway porters tips, it was decided >n the House of Lords, should be included in computing his earnings under ™c Workmen's Compensation Act. In aismissing an appeal by the Great VVestern Railway Company against an award ■»ade to a Bath porter, whose wage was 5/10 a week, and whose tips from passengers amounted to 12/, Lord Dun«|in said that the employer in a case *n«e there was a known practice of S'ving tips, got a man for a less wag.; wan he «- O uld otherwise do if there JM Ho other source of remuneration. *"c company had pleaded that volunai 7 gratuities were in contravention of rule of the company that no fee was to * given by the public or solicited by a ?i°l Lord Dur "' c lin added that the pigment did not extend to tips which * ci "c illicit, and which involved or en"■ouraged neglect or breach of duty.

Many dogs are being turned adrift into the streets in England by owners who fear that the tax is shortly to be increased. The National Canine Defence League makes an appeal for this cruel treatment to stop, as no such increase has been decided upon by the Government. At a sale of the cellar of wines of the second Baron Kosteven, with choice wines, brandies and cigar 3, the property of others, held at Christie's, 28 bottles of cognac and other high-class brandies were sold at the rate of 610/ per dozen. During the sale a slight diversion was caused by the protests of a man against the inclusion of a consignment of German wine in the lots for disposal, but he was persuaded to desist, and the business proceeded. Sinn Feiners, said Mr. John Dillon, speaking at Castlewellan recently, were doing everything in their power to justify the charges made by Orangemen against the Irish party and to make the freedom of Ireland an impossibility. If the Irish Convention came to an agreement he would do his best to carry it out. Anybody who endeavoured to kill the Convention, or who put obstacles in the way of agreement, was an enemy of their cause. Sinn Feiners said they wanted to bring Ireland's claims before the peace conference. The time to win freedom was now. Lieutenant Paul Mellor, of a reserve cavalry regiment, was remanded on bail at Dublin on a charge of obtaining over £250 worth of goods, chiefly jewellery, by false pretences. The representative of the Crown Solicitor said accused had stated that his father was president of the New York Life Assurance Company, and had presented him with Hambledon Place, on the Thames, and given him an allowance of £100. In another shop he said his father was British Ambassador in Paris. Some of the jewellery had been pawned. Sweden doeH not want Finland, according to Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. The whole culture and civilisation of Finland has so completely changed since it was taken by Russia in 1809, it has become such, a hotbed of socialism anfl so entirely Finnish rather than Swedish, that Sweden would not want it back under the circumstances. Sweden would like to see Finland independent of Russia, thus serving as a buffer state between Sweden and Russia. So enormous has the business of jammaking become in Dundee, Scotland, since the great firms there organised to supply preserves to the British Army and Navy that, according to a report sent by E. R. Pottle, United States ViceConsul there, to the Department of Commerce, the tins in which they put up one week's supply alone "would, if stood end on end, form a column fully forty miles high. It is no unusual thing for this linn' to deal with 100,000,000 oranpf. and all kinds of fruit are dealt with on a similar scale." Dundee manufacturers are about to give up the use of earthenware, glass jars, and tins, for a stout cardboard container is new being made, and experiments with it have proved highly successful.