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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11650, 15 October 1923, Page 6

Tho plato at Windsor Castle is valued at nearly £2,000,000. It includes a gold service ordered by George IV., for 1 140 persons, a shield formed of anuff-boxa-i worth £9OOO, and 30 dozen plates worth £IO,OOO. Thero is also a variety of pieces brought from the Colonial and Eastern possessions. Tlie latter include a peacock made of precious stones of every description, w’orth £30,000, and Tippo’s footstool, a tiger’s head with crystal teeth, the tongue being a. solid ingot of gold. Among the Royal plate at Windsor Castle is a knife which wa« presented to. George IV. by tho cutlers of Sheffield. It has over 100 blades. Tho intensity of the “Red Fed ” sentiment existent in some quarters on the West Coast of the South Island startled Mr T. Buxton, organiser for the Farmers’ Union, so he told a “Press” reporter. At a wayside plane* at which he was obliged to put up, th«? Indy <>f tho bouse made no secret of becontempt for such silly fallacies aa loyalty. “What do you think I cab ibic little fellow!”’ she said, pointing to the smallest of three: “Lenin. I thought T would be the first to got him registered, hut two others were in front of me.” Mr Buxton suggested that the name would he a bit of a burden to the little fellow in later life. “I hope he will never bo ashamed of it, and that ho will be as good a man a*: the one he is called after,” was the reply. ForLunatety for the other two youngsters, they had arrived on tlie scene before Trotsky began to make himself popular.