GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 303, 15 October 1910, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

The Boy Scout movement has reached Belgium, and a patrol has just been formed in the British colony.

A young Parisian has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for assisting his wife to commit suicide.

An anonymous loyalist of Leith has given £ISOO to endow a bed in the Leith hospital in memory of the late King.

Representing the crime of only three weeks in London, there were 206 prisoners for trial at London Sessions.

Another party of working men are off to Germany. It includes school teachers, insurance agents, and dairymen.

The total amount of wheat land at present under cultivation in Canada is officially given as 9,294,800 acres.

Sir Gilbert Parker describes a cynic as the cheapest kind of manufactured humanity the world has for sale.

Jerry-builders were described by a speaker at Oldham, England, as traitors to humanity. They should, he said, be treated as moral iepers.

Three cases of diphtheria are reported by the medical officer of Buckfastleigh, Devon, to have been caused by infection from a cat.

The £134,000 inheritance tax paid shows that Mr Harriman, the American railway kiiig, died worth £14,250,000, instead of the £20,000,000 with which the public credited him.

Two steamers have brought to Liverpool from China 100,000 carcases of pigs, 23,000 cases of eggs, and 150,00 boxes of ducks, snipe, and poultry.

The American Consul-Generai at Barcelona finds that human hair is in great demand there, owing principally to the present style of hats, which requires a certain amount of false hair.

Ostrich plumes are gradually growing more and more valuable. During the last three years the price of these feathers has risen 30 per cent. A feather that a few years ago cost only £lO is now worth £ls.

Mark Tapley's view that to smile is easy, but to smile in adveristy is some credit, is the philosophy of the Matlock Smiling Club, which numbers 1500 members in all parts of England, and is rapidly growing. An unprecedented state of affairs prevails in the Scottish distilling industry. It has just been announced that the North British Distillery is to be closed down. This makes the fourth large grain distillery which has ceased operations in Scotland during the oast few months.

The Australian boy Cadets who are visiting England had tea with Lord and Lady Roberts recently. At the request of the boys, Lord Roberts showed them his decorations, and also allowed them to see one of the guns of the battery in attempting to rescue "Which his son, the late Lieutenant Roberts, was killed. Royal personages, in the majority of cases, communicate their plans to the detectives whose duty it is to watch over them beforehand, and they have a written programme to guide them in making the necessary arrangements or safety. King Alfonso, however, is a notable exception; and on one occasion he dropped through a window, and went off on a shopping expedition completely outwitting his protectors.

Possibly Sir lan Hamilton has had more narrow escapes from death than any other leading soldier. Years ago on the Indian frontier he practically lost the- use of his left arm through the bursting of a shell. On another occasion he was struck in the face with a splinter and narrowly escaped losing his eyesight. Like Kitchener, Sir lan is noted for his taciturnity '"'Oneof Hamilton's grunts is more expressive than a whole sentence from anybody else," is an opinion often •expressed at the War Office.

The combined catches of herring at Orkney and Shetland, on the coast east of Scotland, and on that part of the Northumberland coast under the jurisdiction of the Fishery Board for Scotland from the beginning of May to July 23rd are given by the board's returns as 1,068,000 crans. As there are 1000 average-sized herrings to the cran measure this gives a total of 1068 million fish. Prices during the season ranged from 18s to 40s per cran, and easily averaged 20s per cran as landing price, so that fishermen, in less than three months earned £l,068,000. The catch this season is the highest in the history of the herring trade and 414,000 crans higher than for the corresponding period last year.

Though there has been a good deal of sheep worrying by dogs in the South, it would appear that the canine is not the only four-footed animal guilty of destroying sheep. Last week a young stallion on a farm to the west of Masterton was seen to pick up hoggets by its teeth and dash wildly round the paddock with them. Several of the sheep were killed in this manner by the vicious quadruped, whilst a number of others had a leg broken. This stallion will probably prove himself an expensive animal for its owner if it continues its career of sheep destruction. When you get Roslyn, you get the best in underwear, tweeds, blankets, flannels, rugs and clothing: therefore encourage your draper to stock plenty of Roslyn.* Ladies, the corsets we must strongly recommend are the Warner's __ rustproof, as they are right ahead in point of fashion, design and guaranteed to comfortably fit your form; but in addition to all this you can wash them as safely as your Roslyn "Delta" underwear.*