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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1038, 15 June 1894, Page 3

The Ham and Bacon Ourers' Association of Great Britain is still endeavouring to suppress the practice of selling foreign bacon under such inviting names as * Mild Wiltshire ' and ' Wilt* shire Smoked.' The other day in Liverpool, if we remember rightly, waa the scene of its crusade. It is now Birmingham, where Mr Moore, an officer of the association, accompanied by a police-constable, entered a cheese-* monger's shop the other day, and pointing to a piece of bacon in the window labelled ' Wiltshire smoked,' asked the shopman ( What bacon is that V * Canadian,' was the prompt reply. Moore then called the master, and asked hini how he came to ticket the bacon as ■ Wiltshire smoked,' when he replied ' Others are doing the same.' He also said, * I am wrong this time ; this is an end of Wiltshire for tne.' The bacon, which was sold at Sd per pound, was, the officer said, in reality only worth 7d. The piece represented as ' Wiltshire smoked,' was Danish. The same cut of Wiltshire bacon would, it was said be worth 9d per pound. In crossexamination, Moore said that when he was 'weighing the bacon the shopman told him that it was Danish. The defendant was ultimately fined L5 and costs. The Rev E. J. Hardy, writing in the Quiver of Beaconsfield's wife at the time when he was only Disraeli, says : This lady was fifteen years older than Disraeli and he used frequently to tell her in a joke- that he married her for her money ; to which she would reply, 'Ah. but if you had to do it over again, you would do it for love,' a statement to which he always smilingly assented. But if Disraeli did not marry for love, the affection which existed between him and his ' perfect wife,' as he called her, stood the trial of thirty years, and deepened as they . both declined into age. If defeated, he hurried home to be comforted by his helpmate and confidante who never believed that he could fail, and in his greatest triumphs there was to him, no place like home. When others celebrated his victories by a dinner or other demonstration, Disraeli was often absent on 'pressing business ' — he was at home enjoying the society of his wife, ,