TINK’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

TINK’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week’s puzzle:— ACROSS. 1, A measure for liquids (Pint). 5, What you breathe (Air). 7, Cook 9 Negative (No). 10, Insect (Ant). 12, Favourite (Pet). 14, Too (Also). 16, A tree (Elm). 18, Certain (Sure). 20, We wear them with coUars (Ties). 22, Negative prefix (Non). 23, Run agrouiid (as a ship) (Stranded). DOWN ? A metal (Iron). 3, Same as 9 across (No). 4, A shade of brown (Tan). 5 Proposition (At). 6, An island (Isle). 8, Therefore (So). 10, Aids (Abets) .11, Not so wild (Tamer). 12, Twenty shillings (Pound). 13, General inclination (Trend). 15, Short fOr “steamship” (S.S.). 17, Brightened (Lit). 19, Kind of deer (Roe). 21, Short for “South Africa” (S.A.). Clues for this week:— ACROSS. 2, Slip. 7, Unexpected pleasure. 9, Large tank. 11, Countries. 12, Period of time 'l3? Insects. 14, Pull along. 15, Give money for a purchase. 16, A metal. 17, By yourself. 18, Girl’s name. 20, Shout. 21, Large spaces of water. DOWN. 1 Name of an ocean. 2. Soldier on guard. 3, Boys. 4, Pronoun. 5, All people. 6, Reels. 8, You did this in a rate. 10, Stands i° r A^ ociate Royal Academy?’ 14, Valleys. 15, Chum. 19, Stands for “Lord Lieutenant.”

MAN WHO LOST THE PEACE POINCARE’S INFLUENCE IN EUROPE. By the pawing of M. Raymond Poincare France has lost a man who saved her from disaster on more than one occasion and who might have saved Europe had he been moved by a spirit of chivalry in dealing with a fallen foe. He was President of the Republic during the long war years, and in the darkest hour of 1918 he stood alone with Marshal Foch. in resisting a demand for a general retreat and a second evacuation of Paris.

net till three centuries later the - first dukedom was conferred on Henry Grey, Earl of Kent in Queen Anne’s day. This holder of the title died without leaving a son, and it was not till the end of the century that the title was revived for a prince of the royal house; then George the Third conferred it on his fourth son Edward, who was father of Queen Victoria. He used to borrow money, so poor was he, by exhibiting his little princess as the future Queen of England. More than a hundred years of English history have passed by since the dukedom of Kent disappeared for the second time. It is a century in which the face of England has been changed and the face of Europe has changed still more.

His courage proved the turning-point in the war, for before the Allied leaders left that historic meeting they appointed Marshal Foch to supreme command. When, eight years afterwards, financial disaster overwhelmed France Raymond Poincare was summoned from retirement to restore th© franc and bring back confidence. By organising . a Government of National Union, creating a sinking fund, increasing taxation, and preaching economy, he succeeded in stabilising the franc, which has since held firm. A great figure in his own country, he was unfortunately a disturbing influence in Europe. In the cause of peace his policy must be counted as a failure. He reoccupied the Ruhr in 1923, and always insisted on German reparations in full. His enmity to Germany began as a child, when on returning from school to his home in Lorraine he found it in the hands of Prussian invaders. It will perhaps be said of M. Poincare in the history of these times that, though he did as much as any man to win the War, he did mor© than any man to lose the peace. I; ;. - .

ENGLISH HEDGEROWS HOW THEY BEGAN. i ■ OLD BOUNDARIES AND THE NEW; We have been reminded that the hedgerows which make such a pretty pattern on the English countryside are usually younger than the cottages in which those who trim them dwell, says the Children’s Newspaper. Most of our hedges date from the 18th century, when a great revolution in < agriculture took place. Mr. G. A. Jellicoe reminded his hearers of this fact in a lecture on Building England. Th© hedges dividing the .fields ©re the outcome .of the. Enclosure Acts of the 18th century,, .when ( the openfield method of. cultivation disappeared. .. Under, that method ..th© manorial lands were divided into scores of little properties worked in common by the villagers, who also tilled and reaped- the adjoining demesne of the lord of the manor. A man would have strips of land in different parts of the open field, divided from those of his neighbours by a strip of unploughed soil, - ■. The system was economic only while the population of England remained low, but when the growth of industries led to a rapid increase a change was necessary if the nation’s food , supply, was to ■ keep pace with the population. Accordingly’the lords of the manor obtained Acts of Parliament to enclose the open fields and also the . commons, on which the stock grazed together when assessors came down to the villages to hear the claims of the inhabitants and divided the area into permanent shares on condition that they were fenced in within a given time. This fencing was the origin of most of our hedgerows, which became the new boundaries. The Enclosure Acts resulted in the land being divided into larger properties in fewer hands and enabled both crops and livestock to be produced more prolifieally over th® same areas as before.

KENT.A DUKEDOM . NEW HONOUR FOR KINGDOM. KING’S WEDDING GIFT TO SON. Prince George received from the King a noble wedding present (a little before his wedding), for he. has a dukedom which-revives a noble title. ’ Kent, which was a kingdom before England was a nation, is now a dukedom. ■" r It is no more than the due of this ancient constituent of England, which enshrines some of its proudest ana most sacred memories, but which for many years after its kingly glory had been dimmed ,by the coming of the Normans had to be content with the minor dignity of an earldom. As an earl.dom it was given to Odo, the turbulent bishop who was half-brother of the Conqueror, until the Conqueror would have no more of him. Another Earl of Kent of royal blood, the son of Edward the First, was a fighter who lived a romantic life and met a tragic end. Tudor and Stuart followed Plantage-