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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12475, 27 February 1909, Page 4

Sir Thomas Sutherland, presiding at the meeting of the Peninsular and Steam Navigating Company, touched upon a topic of general domestic interest Speaking of the Chinese trade as: one of their most promising fields "of operation, he said they expected to benefit largely by tho exporting of ; frozen Chinese pigs- 111 the future.- So far: as he was aware, a Chirise pigs had never been sent to England as yet. This would add considerably to the food supply of this country. ...-;■ i '■ .. A wag at the time of the opening of the Druce tomb a year or two ago, paid the village bellman to go round with" this remarkable message : ~ "The Druce tomb's open, and there's a man in't,- and that's mair than can be said o' the Government!" The humorist 1 who concocted the proclamation intended it mainly for the benefit of his uncle, a staunch .supporter of the Liberal Government, who occupied a house further down the street. But the nincle turned "the tables rather neatly for when he heard the proclamation outside his door fie promptly persuaded the bellman to alter it by the addition of a word, so that it ran as follows E "The Drupe tomb's open, anq-.jhere s a dead man in't, and that's mair than pan he paid ft' tt»§ §flvprnment.' j And that was the message which the bellman carried round, the Village,