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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10625, 28 May 1896, Page 2

! Mr A. Busck, late grader nfc Lyttelton and dairy Inspector, has resigned bis posi-r tion in the Bervice of the Department' of Agriculture. His present intention is to go Home, via America, after a few weeks' leisure in the colony. One hundred and nine thousand locomotives are at present running on the eurth. Europe has 63;iXM) ; America, 40,000 ; Asia, 3300 ; Australia, 2000 ;dnd Africa 700. In Europe, Groat Britain takeß premier position with 17,000 engines ; Germany has 15,000 : France, 11,000. The " penny in the slot " gas motor has been an unparalled success in London (says the Glasgow Weekly Mail). The Metropolitan Gas Light and Ooka Cdmpany report that their increase in revenue during the past half-year is more or less directly attributable to the new' source of income- the automatic meter consumers. The gross collection in connection with the slot meters amounted to £30,710, the whole of this having been iH Id copper coin, the weight of which was over- 6*3 tons. At the present time* they werfe collecting 100,000 coins a day, weighing nearly one ton. \ , . afr Rider Haggard telle a good story of the Boer wars. A party pi Boers were discussing over their pipes the color of the British flag. One said it was blue with the Queen in the middle, another that it was red, and another that it 'was something diffeient. An old man had been listening to the conversation, and only when the others nad expressed their opinion did he break in with, "You're all wrong. I have seen; the flag three times, the laßt time only the other day at Krugersdorp, and it has always been white." Mr Alfred Johnstone, the account-ant for Earl'B Court (London) exhibitions, states that " great shows" were first commenced at Earl's Court in 1887, when " Buffalo Bill" and his retinue of cowboys were engaged. The capital was £60,000, and the 'result of the exhibition was a los» of £70,000. In 1881 and 1889 Colonel North advanced a sum of £35,000 for the Italian and Spanish exhibitions. The former resulted in a loss of £8000, and the latter in a loss of £20,000. In 1890 £20,000 was lost in connection with the French exhibition, and in the following year £25,452 over the German exhibition. In 1893 and 1894, during the industrial exhibitions, there was a further deficit of £15,000. , ' A contributor to Christchurch Truth relates the follewine incident of tho late Sir P. Buckley :— When once he knew and liked a man, altered circumstances in the man caused po alteration in Sir Patrick's manner to him, except, perhaps, to prompt him to active kindness. An instance of this occurred on his last visit to Christchurch. There is here an old member of the Wellington Fire Brigade, a man everyone knew, and who was always at hand to help in any work going on. Sir Patrick knew him, as I, and hundreds of others in Wellington did, and wo all l'ked him. Meeting him in the otreet one day Sir Patrick stopped and shook bauds with him, asked him how he was getting on, and expressed regret at hearing thiugs were not prosperous with him. After a , friendly chat Sir Patrick said good-bye, and, shaking hauds with him, hurried away. The man' felt a bit of crumpled paper in his haud, and on looking at it found it to be a £10 note. Puiio-j ! Piano* Brilliant' Tone, with Latest Improvements, at G-. i\l. Buasoh & C'o.'s. The instruments being a con', sigument account must; bo gold withou* delay. — Advti „