BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, 11 June 1907, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

, J. J'luvms replaces,!. l«'rost. ; (.ore Borough Council had a long programme last nigh)., tOdendale won the sixty-guinea cup at the Southland Winter Show to-day. It is a curious fact that had the' Spanish Queen given birth to twins, according to Spanish law il would have been the second child born, and not tile iirst who would inherit. To illustrate the contrast, between the ideal and the actual, says the 'Detroit News/ post, the illustrations from the florist's catalogue at the ends of your garden rowo. Lite 'Morning; Post' sums up a. new play, "The Comedy of Aeroi," succinctly thus: "Of the making of flying machines thero is no end. 01' tho making of machines that will tly there is not vet a beginning." "1 am as old a man as you are, and if I get a shot at you 1 will knock the wind out: ot you." was the remark made bv a committeeman at tile Kuroluiro (Hull Valley) School Committee meeting in reply to another member's uncomplimentary remarks. A t)ew.sbci]-y champion glutton has been beaten by a gigantic black pudding. lie matched himself lo eonsi it in a given time, but lailed. The pudding was three yards loll},', and was served hot. He consumed two yards, lull the last vai'd was too much for hint, Man v. -Mt was a race decided at Halsell, near'Oi ni.'Ut'k, A publican and a farmer made a. match id run a hundred yards against a goat, driven in il eliilise by the farmer's son. The publican soon led by twenty yards, but, geting its head down, the goal galloped home a comfortable winner. for the luncheon lo the Premiers at the (iuildhall thero were provided I'll) quarls of turtle soup, :1101b of beef, J0III) mutton cutlets, g(HI fowls, 100 dishes of salmon, 100 dishes of sole, 70 tongues, and 70 Perigord pies, besides vast quantities of sweets, etc. Everything was dished up on silver, and there were ten thousand china plates used. Mr (ieorge JVie, who died at Koxfon (last week, as a. boy. accompanied Colonel Wakefield, represental ivo of I lie Now Zealand Company, with an interpreter, to Tarauaki, in .faunary. ISII, when the block of HO,OOO acres, on which the town of New Plymouth now stands, was purchased irom tlie Maoris in exchange for ' blankets, /ironmongery, guns, and "goods of divers kinds.