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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 59, 29 June 1908, Page 2

Lord Kitchener was born on the 24th of June, 1850. A well-known Dunedin butcher is reported to have bought a line of 150 fat bullocks at Mitidlemarch the other day. The Dairy Commissioner t'Mr D. Cuddie) returned from London by the Moeraki on Wednesday. He speaks in the highest terms of the quality of the New Zealand butter and cheese in London. "We are," he *ays, "putting a magnificent article on the Home market." A fire at the city of Three Rivers, near Montreal, devastated the business portion. Three hundred of the finest commercial houses < were destroyed. The damage is estimated at two million dollars. "Fined £lO and costs" was the penalty for supplying a prohibited person with liquor inflioted by Mr Widdowson S.M., at Port Chalmers on Wednesday. '"Ten pounds !" exclaimed the defendant. "Yes," answered His Worship, "and I hope it will be a warning to you and others." "Might I ask," said one of the speakers at the Teachers' Institute meeting at Wellington, "whether ony teacher has retired on a pension of £l5O a year under the Superannuation Board?" "No," replied the president (Mr Foster), who is a member of the Board. "My reason for asking," said the first speaker, "was that I heard the other day of a policeman who retired on £164 a vear, and another on £176." "Thl largest retiring allowance granted so far to a teacher," said the president, ' was one of £9B a year." The general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand has received a cable from his London Board advising the declaration of a dividend of 5 l per cent for the half-year and a bonus to shareholders of 2 per cent on the paid-up capital of £376,000, equalling 12 per cent in all for the year to March 31 last. The sum of £25,000 has been added to the reserve fund, making it £350,000, and £11,300 has been carried forward. The directors further allocated £12,500 in reduction of bank premises, and £3,000 to the officers' pension fund, and granted a bonus to the staff. The annual meeting will be held in London on July 7. A Walsall policeman huddVod himself in a bath-chair and employed a man to push him up and down a ttnet \ here he thought betting was going on. He told the magistrate that by this device he succeeded in getting "right under the nose" of a bookmaker whom he could hear conversing with his clients, seventeen bets being made while 'be thus had him under observatiDn. The bookmaker was fined £lO and oi**»The Due de Montebello is seeking authority to remove the remains of his grandfather, Marshal Lannes, from the Pantheon, in Paris, owing to the fact that the temple "is now to harbor Zola, the insulter of the French army."