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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 8 February 1910, Page 4

The Eev. F. B. Meyer, speaking at a Hackney meeting, said he once -ttended a prison service at which one of the hymns was, "We are marching; on the good old way, the good old way our fathers trod." Archdeacon Sinclair capped this with a story of a bishop who opened a prison service with the observation that he was delighted to see so many present. The Venerable Earl of Wemyss had the credit of bringing out the heaviest bullock at the Scottish National Show. This was a blue-grey steer bred and fed by. the exhibitor, and showing a good deal of symmetry, and a capital oover of flesh. At 44 months old he scaled i9cwt 31b. He did not manage to get into the prize Ust, but he realised about the top price among' the animals sold at the sale other than those from the Royal herd at Balmoral. The result of the Budget tobacco duties at Home was to reduce the clearances in the period April—October by 3,132,4481bs according to a statement by Mr Weidner, chairman of Messrs Finlay and Co., tobacconists, at the annual meeting at Newcastle on December 18th. Taking the recognised average of eight pipefuls to the ounce, and assuming that all the decrease waa: in respect of pipe tobacco, Mr Weidner' calculated that there had been 400,000,000 fewer pipefuls smoked in the seven months mentioned. If that decrease continued in the same proportion until the end of the- financial year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who ex-, pected to derive £1,900,000 from, the increase, would reoeive £600,000 leM ■tfhan/he estimated. ■•'■>•