Lord and Lady Roberts.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 979, 19 November 1901, Page 4

Lord and Lady Roberts.

Lord and Lady Roberts have always been a singularly attached couple, and during their long residence'in India tho great affection which obviously existed between them was often a matter of comment in Anglo-Indian society. They were constantly to-, gether, and .Lady Roberts sometimes even brought her work into her bus-, band's office, and'sat with him there if no' important business was being transacted. A tall, fine-looking woman, with an agreeable manner, Lady Roberts, despite her husband's high position, cares nothing for society; in fact, for some years past, she has gone about as little as possible, and while always ready to take an active part in charitable affairs, only gave the necessary official entertainments at the Royal Hospital, Dublin. She shrinks from personal publicity, and has. refused over and over' again to bo interviewed. Of Lord and . Lady Roberts' six children only one now remains.

,■■ -«— \ New Insurance Idea.

A new and ingenious idea in, .life assurance has just been put into operation by Mr. H. 6. Hobson, secretary of the Star Life Assurance Society, It is a scheme which remits premiums duein cases where the policy-holder is ■so seriously ill as to be unable to follow the occupation by which he has been earning his income, Many professional men, doctors, lawyers, etc, pay their premiums until one day they become crippled, maimed or paralysed, and .then have to surrender their policies through inability to find means to pay premiums, There. need be no mor» such cases if every life assurance society would follow in the footsteps of the above-named society, '

Phonographic Wills. An engineer, who died:,recently in Rochester (U.5,A.),. made his, will phonographically. Surrounded by his lawyer and the members of his family, he spoke, a few days before his death, his last wishes into, the phonograph, This done, he inscribed upon the mx roller, "This is my last will and testament," the witnesses also inscribing'their names. - .;. It is anticipated that this, form of making one's will may become popular, although it is likely'to give room to fraud in the shape of the imitation of the voice; of'those blest with this world's goods. .^',l;-_■:.:'.: '.-.: •.-'-;• '■_';, .The Mother's Favorite, /■ --,;••_ ': Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is ■ the mother's- is pleasant 'anil safe -for, children: to take and always cures, KltjiSiintended ..espeoially .for coughs/.-eolds,; croup and coughj.andis the best medicihomadefor these'diseases.,'There-is danger' giving?{tXfo; children for ■it totalis no opium or'any.other injurious may;'be to a babe'as.to -ml; adulti:',Pbr saleby ti