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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1648, 30 September 1903, Page 16

The latest society craze in New York and other American fashionable centres is the adoption of socks as an article of women’s wear instead of the traditional stockings. This, it is stated, is a habit which is spreading with lightning rapidity all over the Continent, especially at seaside resorts. It is a custom which has been prevalent in France for many years past, the sock being an article of wear which the French lady much affects. It is rumoured that an effort is being made to secure an agreement between the flax mil! ers of the Wellington district, in order to concentrate the industry, and so control through a given channel the output of the various mills. News has been received at Sydney (says a Press Association cablegram) that Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, Governor of New South Wales, has been promoted to the rank ox Admiral. At Adelaide on September 14 Mir Henry Chaffey Baker, cousin of Sir Richard Baker, was found dead in a room at his lodgings, with a revolver lying beside him. He was fifty-two years of age, and was a candidate for the House of Representatives at the first federal election, when he polled nearly IG.OOO votes. He had recently returned from New Zealand.