GENERAL NEWS.
In accordance with a long established practice, the Alderman of London met at Gruildball on December 8 to inspect and select the cloth annually sent to the great officers of State and other functionaries. A gift of four and a-half yards of the best black cloth is sdnt to the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Bolls, the Lord Chamberlain, the Vice Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household, Controller of the Household, the Home Secretary, the Foreign Secretary, the " Attorney General, the Solicitor-General, the Becorder, and the Common Sergeant. The Town Clerk receives six yards of black cloth and six yards of green cloth, and his principal clerk four yards of each. There are also gifts to minor officials. The cl so presented is called " livery cloth," and the custom comes down from the time when the citizens used to wear the cloth or liyery of their special guilds or fraternities." There are insects and* insecticides, and there are fungi and fungicides. It is a well-known fact also that there ara fungi that attack insects, and by means of the former the latter are sometimes quite effectively eradicated. In fact, this matter has gone so far that some scientists are advocating the innoculation of insects with fatal fungi, and thus spreading an epidemic among their fellows. Now the practical point of this is the method by which the crop grower is to determine whether to apply a fungicide and destroy the fungus which may, for aught he knows, be upon the eve of killing off some insect enemy that was many times worse. Some of our experts in using copper compounds upon the one hand, and arsenites upon, the other, may be able to throw light upon this obscure, peculiar and far from impracticable point in farm and garden economy. — American Agriculturist.
An English convict earns about a shilling a week while in penil servitude.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1887, 13 April 1892, Page 4
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326GENERAL NEWS. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1887, 13 April 1892, Page 4
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