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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12164, 16 February 1914, Page 4

The Craig Fountain is r.ow erected in the Gardens, and though much remains to be done, the line effect of the sculptured marble was much admired bv visitors to the Gardens to-day.

While crops in the Totara and some of the other districts were somewhatbadly laid and soaked by the rains and therefore cannot be e:<p:eted to yive results 2-s enod as those of former years, there arc in other districts crops that may take their place beside any that those districts have previously produced. A farmer ef Awair.oa. whose lone; experience of agricultural farming mav place his judgment beyond suspicion, estimates that one wheat crop in his neighborhood will return /jO bushels. In the Mon-eii. Xjxapara. Ilakataramea. Kakanui. and i'apak.iio districts there are also some excellent crops. The staffe of the crops ai which the wot weather was experienced has made all the difference, and as few crops make equal progress it- will possibly be found when threshing starts thai tiie damage, while extensive emiiieh in certain esses to justify the alarming reports of Oamaru crops circulated in other centres, is by no means so miive:sal "s has lier-n stated. Damage and immunity from damage are too patchy to render a computation as to the average vield of much value. but the result will be little below t.'ie flverajie.

Sheep upon the hotter class pastures this year are not fattening, in spite of

the growth of feed. The grass. :i!id .•1011" the c-lnviT. is iou rank. Lambs especially hiv backward on the good I lauds, while upon tin- poorer hinds they j are fattening. I

A start had just Ix-cn mad.; with thrashing at Duutvoon when it n« .s:opp.xl hv tlu- lain. Twenty-three acres hi" wheat threshed 4o bushels per acre; t-'-J aires of oats threshed 93 Ims'iels per aero. Other crops are threshing well, but the paddocks arc not fniislicd, so tliar liii_- lina! results are no: yet available. Last Thursday night I-! points of rain fell at Dmitroon, which stopped harvest work. Friday was a-dull day. with no drying, hut Saturday and Sunday wore 'fine and the work will lie pushed on again to-day. weather permitting. A vGimz man named Win. (.1. Foster met his d.a.tli as tlie result of :i motorcycle accident near Waimate yesterday. The deceased was one of a party who were motoring from Timaru to Oaniaru and. missing the road at Deep Cre.:k. went on through Waimate. When m-::r Kitottiiigly Pari", it is thought that. deceased ran into a cow. bn" none of his companions seem to 'have seen the accident. He was taken in the Y.'aimat" Hospital, where !)r Larelav f.ii::;_ lha: he was sutii ring f.T.m a" fracture of the has,, of the skull, with Inoiiiorrhaeo of ;!'.■> brain, and that the case was hone!, ... The accident hanpontd about II a.m.. and tlie inh'red man died at -I n.iu. An intitiest. "will hj,, held at Waimate on Tuesday morning.

A Press Association telegram from Timaru states ihat the Timaru Post (evening miner) was nll'erod for sale be public auction on Saturday. There was only one bid, one of t,oo!>.jmd the property was pasted in. Tlie auctioneer mentioned that ;he assets wore vained at £14,000. Mr John liruce. farmer, of Morvon. met with a painful aocidoiii.-on Satinday. From information available it appears ite was assisting in the harve.-.t Held when some- horses attached to a dray bolted, and in endeavoring to stop tiirm Mr Hrtiee was UuocUed down and had his leg broken. Queen Mary paints, sings, and is clever with her ne. die. Queen Vien:r:a Augusta n!" Cei-many i-> a s]i.".-ial.'s; v.itli the eaine:a. and pro :u-i s :: spc-ia! kind oi art ]:h<>tograp!i. Qms-n V, ilh.-l-mimi of Holland paints miniatures and porcelain: while Queen Maud of Walesis a distingui-lc. d playwright, using the

pseiKionym of Graham Irving. She is also a competent bookbinder, dressmaker, and painter. Queen i-aizaheth of lielgiuai possess,..; ~ <l r ,etu:'\s diploma of the L'niversity of Leipzig, liesides-. •die i-. an i-Kceil.-iit musician, and plavs piam, and violin with great skill. Failing :o obtain job, in these lines._ .she wcaiid make a good taxi-cal) driver. ■•Carmen Sylvia" (Queen Klizabeth of Houmania) is a world-famous poetess and novelist. Helena. Quern of Italy, has iokinglv remarked that in case of i:e.d". she could easily earn £BO a week in tlie music halls of London or N« w York as all expert swimmer and rillewoman. "What is less known, she is a devoted arehteologist. Lady I'.aiirroft (who was Miss Marie Wilson, a celtbiated actress a generation ago), sneaking recently in London, said e-. erv step to tame and fori line w.-is hard to climb. Of emirse. ,he had eit(ouutere:! barriers (;n her way. but courage and a strong will had combined to push her on. There was room for everyone in tlie artistic world. If one had "real t.ilcnr it .vis _i!ick!y recognised, and nothing could hold one back. She regarded a real s.age as ,i necessity. One (s.r.itl not dissociate- art in any form from it.- proper surroundings. For herself, so strong had been that feeling within her. that whenever she had visilel even a country circus tlie smell of sawdust had created in her a courageous desire to mount a pichald horse and jump through a paper hoop. The it alis.itaui of iter wi=:i would doubtless have been her last public appearance.

Mr Lloyd George's method oi preparing iii.s speeches dots 11:1,: duicr verv materially srom tint which he pursued in the earliest days of his I'niTiauieiiutry career. It was then his habit to mane \ery full notes ct the speech he was to deliver in the House or en tinplatform, hut he did not use tin se notes 11 lien it came to the actual delivery of the speech: they v.vre then distal tied, and a few line, scribbled on some scrap.-, of paper, perhaps on tin- hack oi an e-n.iope. were eiiuugii to serve hint. .Nowadays. w'n-n In- lias planned inij.V liie general scheme and the main heads oi an imoaitant speech, lie dictates it to a typist, then he reads through the typewritten copy and alters or amplifies it. Finally, he condenses it into :i snort note. eous:>ii:ig only of the dearest •'head lines." jor us." on the platform or in the iionse o; Commons, as the case may he. ;i>ui ill the end. it has been observed, he delivers ihe speech in aliiii-.-.t exact!-,- the 101111 of hi, lirsi compleu- drai,. Several rich women in the wcsiiyii .society of the t'uited States have discovered a new bobby, and perhaps an aceomplisha.ent. bv tauiug up the study of Kngiish. The fashion has been started ny ill - venerable lady, .Mrs i/re-di-rick \\. Lokinami. the wife of the Solicitor-Geiural in President Tail's .Administration, who. though a graudmollier, has eiiten-a Washington i'niversity as a "freshman.'' an.i attends classes thre.- tim-s a w; oi; for the study of iantcua-.'es. Among other no-.v students are .Mrs i-luiirv S. J'riest, wife of a lorm.r Federal judge, an.! Airs Ford H. Thompson, the wife o. a promineat ■St. I.auis attorney.

Abdul Hi'.mid. the ex-SuUan of Turkey, was sued recently before the cine.' Cu'iii. the Constantinople corn sponc.ciu of the .Munich •.Nouc.-te Xaclirichtcn states. by a wom.in 'or damages for the los-i of her appendix. A few years ago. it is stated. Ad'n-i's iavorite daughte.was attacked by uppe.'uiijilis, and a surgical operation became necessary. The sultan ordered Thai a sort of rehearsal operation should be perionned before the doctors should policed to treat tic <a-e of the priiif e->. .', woman who w.is uii'ier treatment in hospital for an ear ;ifl'eetion was chosen, anil, she nuiv clai.r.s t!ie return of the organ, or, failing that, adequate financial damages. 'I lie C'iidi. not finding any preci dent ,ior such a case in the Koran, adjourned tin- bearing. Some amusement has been cause: 1 , by ilie tact that Air Hryan. Secretary or State, has changed his "wine" from nufenueiued grape juice to pineapple juice. The innovation was noticed at an o'.'icia! banquet given by the Seirctarv of .State* recently, ar.d the explanation was that the color harmonises more cluselv with that of champagne. 'J his h-.-rrnge will" be served at all .Mr Hi-van's diplomatic dinners, and it is understood" thai the suggestion came from the v.ifj o: the Brazilian ambavsi-

I Tin- police cieveriy fiusfrat'jd (.soys the Madrid correspondent of the "Daily 'I i li-fittipli) another attempt to perpetrate the Spanish buried treasure 1 rand. ■ 'I In- victims were two liussinns, who had actually travelled from Karaba;:, in tin- Government of Elizabcthpol. Trans-Caucasi.i. 'I heir name, an' Matthew Abranmff and Arachel Balareff. Thev constantly received correspondence fro::i Madrid offering them a lucrative business in Spain. The swindlers explained that a certain rich banker had effected a fraudulent bankruptcy, but thai, beiim in prison, he could not touch a hidden Treasure. which amounted to two millions ol pesetas, and could be unearthed at a relatively trirlhm expense. The plot mu-t have been weil planned, for sonic weeks a'io the Russians announced that they were leaving. They arrived at the .Midi railway station. Madrid, and were received bv a person named Eujrcnio l-'er-i.an di z. alias ■•Hf)uinteye." Meanwhile, si-ior Mer.dc-z Alanis. the chief of police, bad receiver! advice from Russia of the \ictims' departure. •'Squinteve'' and his companions were closely w-uch-d. the police following them n Hie Hotel LTiramar. where ••Sf|uinteye" and bis- lriciid--. Alfonso i'Vrnaudox and Sotrundo I're-a. the latter a l'ortueuesewaiter, were cleverly arrested at the moment when iliev l'.ad bemm to discuss ••business." The' Russians, who hardly believer they had been nearly victimis: d, produced a numb: r of false documents tliev had ivccivcd. consisting of plans of 'iiidincj-place, etc. Jlalnreff carried with him the money demanded by the defendants, viz.. iISI'K), in notr-s and K°lJ- The prisoners were taken to the police court, but were liberated because the Spanish penal code only imposes a line o: £~> for such offence:-, and this was promptly paid.