CHRISTCHURCH ABATTOIRS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH ABATTOIRS.

■ •«» [BT TELEGBArH.—FBESa ASSOCIATION.] OHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Afc the city abattoirs during January 1118 cattle wero slaughtered aud 10 coiidemned; 7717 sheep, and 4 condemned ; 2382 lambs, and none condemned ; 555 pigs, two of which wore condemned ; and 428 calves, all healthy.

On New Year's Day, 1853; Lord Roberts Fat down— one of a party of thirteen— to dinner at Peshawar. Eleven years later not ono of those thirteen had died, though most of them had taken part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, and live or cix had been wounded. A boat belonging to Santa Margherita, Liguria, which was fishing in the neighbourhood of Savona, brought up in its act a waterproof bag, containing bank noteE to the yalue of £120,000. But tho majority of tho notes are old Brazilian issues, which havo been withdrawn from currency, and aro therefore valuless. The King of Siam, the publication of whoso book, dedicated to his son, i 6 promised in the near future, is tho holder of titles^ compared with which the most exalt ed titlea in Europe eeem commonplace He is. brother of tho Sun, lialkbrother of Iho Moon, Sole and undisputed Arbiter of the ebb and flow of the Tides, and Owner of foui' and twenty Golden Umbrellas. A good story is told in connection with the friendship of Pope Leo and Archbishop Murphy. When he was in his seventy-fifth year tho Arshbishop visited the Vatican. At tho close of tho audieuce Pope Leo exclaimed, "Well, my dear brother, I suppose wo will not meet again -in this world." But seven years later Dr. Murphy reappeared at the .Vatican, and smilingly reminded Pope Leo. of his pessimistic prephecy, and to the great amusement of the Pontiff, chaffingly observed, "So, you ccc, you are not infallible, after all." Somo stories about Edieon are not true, inducting one that haa been often told which described how he invented 'the incandescent lamp in order to be revenged on the gas companies. His anger had been aroused by his gas being peremptorily 1 cut oft by a hard-hearted collector who wanted his bill paid. "That night," Edison is reported to have said, "as I sat in tiie darkness, I swore- I make an electric light that would ruin tho gas companies." This story, his biographer says, always annoys Edison when his oyo lights upon it. for ho is the last man in the world wBo would seek to revenge himself up_oa wtfoaf »