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Dunstan Times, Issue 3130, 14 August 1922, Page 2

The million dollars reported to have been promised the ex-Kaiser for his memoirs will beat the record in payment for works of the kind, held hitherto by General Grant. The victor of the Civil War began to write his "Personal Memoirs," with an idea of making provision for his family, when already stricken with the disease that caused his death. So great was the public demand for the book that the publisher paid 200,000 dollars in one ciieque on account of royalties, and subsequent payments totalled another 240,000 dollars. According to a London publisher's announcements, everyone may have £250 worth of "SelfRevelation" in his fountain pen. There is a prospect, it is stated, of the introduction into Great Britain of a machine which will largely do away with the use of postage stamps, and, what is more, the pest office is said, to bo considering its use. The principle of the machine is siat it punches letters or packets with an official mark, which obviates using stamps. A meter registers each punch. Periodically the meter would bo read by the postal officials and accounts rendered to the firm or public- body, who would be licensed by the post office to hire the machine. The latest thing in farming is to farm in colors. Major Morrison, a, .millionaire, has a "black" farm and a "red" farm at Pandbourne, Berkshire (England). On the black farm there are black horses-, black Kerry cattle, blackfaced' sheep, black pigeons on the barn roofs, black fowls, and black ducks. The red farm, worked by reddish-brown horses, is stocked' with reddisht-bmwn cattle and ducks, lias red pigeons l , at red goose, and red-haired dairymaddis. The Mayor of Auckland has received a half-ton of cocoa and milk from the Wellington agency of Cadbury and Fry, Ltd., as a gift for the unemployed of that city.