LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A further instalment of “A Trip Abroad” appears in this issue. “Dog Lore,” appearing elsewhere in this issue, deals further with the working sheep dog. A thanksgiving social, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Chinch, Toko, will he held at the Coronation Hall, on Monday, March 18th, at 7.30. The usual monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council will be held next Wednesday. Cr. Smith will move: '“That the West Brookes and Brecon Roads accounts be joined in one account in the Council’s books, to be called the Brookes-Brccon Road account.” Some time ago what purported to be a genuine specimen of the “man fish” was nlac’ed on exhibition in a Napier shop window, and afterwards presented to the Borough Council to be added to the collection of curiosities in the Museum (says the “Telegraph”). The specimen was bought in America, and was supposed to he the remains of an actual lish. For some time past the curiosity, which had the body of a fish with a very human-like head,hand chest and forearms, had been adorning the walls of one of the rooms in the Council Chambers. The other morning one of the officials was surprised to notice that what had been looked upon by many as a skull m bone had been eaten away by a rat. Part of one arm was also missing, the rodent evidently having made a good meal. The substance is undoubtedly a composition, and the arm was kept in position by a wire and noth bone. The head was supported by a stick, and'ft is evident'the‘thing bvas a’ciePer fake manufactured‘for the purpose of Swelling the returns of sonie American factory. 'The specimen 'will* not/-be' exhibited in the Museum. An interesting description of the “Red Hat” of a Cardinal appears in '“The Times” in a report of the “at home” given by Cardinal Bourne at Archbishop’s House, Westminster:— The “Red Hat” was displayed in the throne room, where the reception took place.;' 'lt is large, round, and. flat, with, a small crown,' hud ’“ha’s 1 loiig heavy silken cords, each with fifteen tassels at the end, hanging on either side. It differs from the Cardinal’s scurlet robe in colour, being of a deep red. It is not intended to bo worn. The Cardinal has it on his head for the last time, as well as the first, at the Consistory, when the Pope, holding it with both hands, places it on him for a moment. When the Cardinal returns to his diocese, if he he an Archbishop, the hat is shown to his flock, and is then put away until his death, when it is placed on his coffin. Finally, it is hung from the roof of the crypt or chapel in which the Cardinal is buried, or in his cathedral church. There arc three “Red Hats” in Westminster Cathedral, those of Cardinals Wiseman, Manning, and Vaughan. They will remain until they fall to pieces I with age.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 68, 15 March 1912, Page 4
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