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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 5

There are estimated to be about 500 varieties of spiders in the British Isles. Wiiting on singers’ slips of memory, Mmc. Ada Crossley says: “One of the most, stupid slins I made on the concert platform was to kill off ‘The miller’s lovely daughter’ (in “The Banks of Allan Water’’) in the first verse. “There a corpse lay she.” I resucitated her by beginning all over again, and deserved all the smiles I got for the real contralto pathos with which I finally laid her low in the third verse !’’ ‘There is at present a very heavy loss by the Kitchen Committee of the House of .jommons,” said Dr Salter, M.P., at a meeting of the Industrial Christian Fellowship in London recently. “Owing to the arrival of 144 Labour members, three-quar-ters of whom are teetotallers,” ho explained, “there is a great reduction in the sale of intoxicants. The Kitchen Committee is being compelled to consider whether in consequence of the decreased sale of alcoholic drinks it will not be forced (o raise the price of foodstuffs."