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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14283, 4 August 1908, Page 8

Everyone may not know what the term benefit ol peorage" implies. A peer can demand a private audience of the Sovereign to represent his views on matters of public wei-fare. For treason or felony ■he can demand to lie tried by his peers; lie cannot be outlawed in any oivil actibn, nor can he be arrested unless for an indictable e-nejice, and 'ho is exempt from serving on juries. Ho may sit with his lwt on in courts of justice, and, should be'be liable to the last penalty of the law, 'he can demand a silken cord instead of a hempen rope. At the Sleaford May Fair, one of the largest _ in England for the hiring of domestic servants, the wano of the milkmaid was this yoai / more apparent than ever. Scarcely one girl in 50 accepting a situation in a farmhouse would undertake tho duties of lnilldng, and men have noiv to be engaged to perform this branch of work. Hiftier wages wore demanded all round, aj;d those engaged for .the towns obtained fully £.4- per year more than girls remaining in the oftuntry. | Do not forget that the only perfectly safe remedy for throat and long- comI plaints is TOSSIOTjT.A; Is 6d, 'is 6d,