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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13336, 27 March 1911, Page 4

We liavc opened up a particularly choice range of dress tweeds, really nice,' goods, , at very moderate prices. Our exceptional, i guying facilities permit us to' buy these “ goods direct from the, manufacturer* t . so these goods come‘direct’from the mill to our stored Needless to say. the patterns are specially selected, and the prices range from Is to 5s 6d per yard. There is a special window display of these tweeds in one of our large windows. McGruer and Co.

- Amusement advertisements will be found on page six in this issue. ’ A number of defended cases are set down for decision at the, S.M. Court to-morrow. : The date for the annual meetings of householders throughout the Dominion for -the election of school committees has been fixed for April 24. '.' Street- collections at Napier and Hastings on Saturday in aid of the hospital realised about .£540, and a number of hoses have still to come in. The two remaining charges against John Parrell of laying totalisator odds and being in Ridgwa-y Street for the purposes of betting will be heard before Mr W. Kerr, S.M., on Wednesday morning. '. .Mr "Jack-London, the novelist, has asRUtned command of a particularly aggressive band of insurgents in Mexico, and is seeing a good deal of guerrilla service in that turbulent country. He has been sailor, gold miner, and tramp, as well as Journalist and novel writer. Now a salmon fisher, next an oyster merchant, then Or longshoreman, he has gone wherever the love of adventure led him, and that has been pretty well all over the world. One. of his least adventurous experiments was Hfe attempt to sail round the world in WO6 in a 50ft ketch-rigged yacht.

The story of the old lady who stopped one of the country trains in New Zealand toenquire if any of the passengers could so far oblige her as to give her smaller change for a cne-pound note, is a tolerably familiar one, but -something just as good occurred last week ,'says the Christchurch Press). One of the cars from Sumner slopped at a side street in response to a signal from an old geatleman standing on the roadway. The old man, however, made no attempt to board the car, and on his wishes becoming known it was found that all he wanted was the correct time. y The guard obligingly gave the required information, and the tram resumed its journey to town. In many parts of the country (says the Southland News) the dry weather that we have experienced throughout the summer has> proved little short of disastrous to the pastoral industry, but there are exceptions to be noted. A ease in point has just been ■ brought to our notice in respect to the fattening of lambs for export. The lambs in question'“were bred and fattened on Mr Donald Macdonald’s Okapua • Estate, in the filiation district. The total iamhing for the season numbered 2300, and upon the’ “fats” being drafted this week it was found that no fewer than 2045, or about 89 per cent, of the whole crop, were prime freezers. The average -weight of these is estimated to be only a fraction under 40 Hl *]pesscd. Such a percentage in a line of considerable size is almost unheard of in Otagi and Southland, and forms a striking evidence of the fattening qualities of the land in the district mentioned

‘ Some of the leading wits of Ipswich have 1 devised a medal and an illuminated address wheih they have presented to Mr •Winston-Churchill, in commemoration of the Sydney Street battle. The medal hangs frofm a red, white, and blue ribbon, on which a whip is designed—a passing allusion to-the suffragist attack. It bears the familial; photograph of Mr Winston Churchill peering round the corner of Sidney Street, with the words “For Valour’’ underneath. The testimonial is worded as follows:—“We, some of the militant men of- Ipswich, being dumbfoundered at your gallant behaviour at the battle of Houndsditch, in which 15U0 policemen, half a battery of the R.H.A., and a company of the Scots Guards were employed in destroying two aliens ask your acceptance of tile accompanying medal as a worthy memento of the occasion. We would suggest that you now write another pamphlet, ‘How I escaped from Houndsditch.’ ”

' Some 15,000 performers will lake part in tlic “Pageant of London, - ’ a succession of historic scenes dating from Norman times, which will he one of tho features of the Festival of Empire. The elaborate nature of the preparations may be gauged from the fact that 10,000 historic costumes, ranging in value from two guineas to 30 guineas have to be got ready. The lady who will represent Queen Elizabeth Will Wear a dress valued at 30 guineas. A great feature will be the procession and the meeting - of knights in armour, this being intended as a picturesque and faithfttßrevtval'of- feudal days. There are not at the present time enough suits of armour left in England to fit all the performers, and for weeks past 80 workmen have been engaged night and day making suits of atinour to be worn in this twentieth century pageant.

, ...Mr H. Lundius, Crown Lands Banger, showed us to-day a striking example of ♦insurability of totara, in the shape of a splinter taken from a log found in a swamp near Kaitieke, Wanganui River. The wood must have lain under water for hundreds of years, yet it was as sound as a H»I1. and except for a slight discolouration. could hardly have been told from freshly-cut timber. Tho settler in question was rather fortunate in finding a considerable number of logs in the swamp, and they supplied him with about 2000 posts for his farm. Apropos, totara is one of the few native timbers which the Forestry Department is growing. Most native trees are of too slow growth to he profitably used in plantations. Totara. though slow enough, is less so than most others, and its excellent qualities of durability and ease of working made it a fit subject for plantations, even though not coming into use till a distant date.

The result of inquiries into the scaidalous occurrence at Cass, on the Midland Railway, when a seriously injured man was refused permission to travel on a goods train to obtain medical attention, gives another instance cf the asinine rigidity of the railway regulations. The iiian was so badly injured that his wife would have had to accompany him on the journey, but the railway regulations do not permit women to travel in the guard’s van of a goods train, although men are allowed to do so-in cases of emergency. The result was that permission had to be obtained from headquarters for the lady to accompany her husband, and while this was on the /way,the, train had left, the local official being tOo much afraid of losing his position to „run the risk of being humane. the unfortunate man had to he jolted back on a cart, to await the ordinary train. It is about time someone with a little of the milk of human kindness .went through these regulations and altered t&em- more in accord with the modern" principles of humanity—a task the pan who pulls the wires behind the present management seems incapable of. Some, time, ago wc drew attention to two cases of hardship in this district owing to the existence of the same regulation. In one case a lady who had left a large family at. home missed the train at Feildrng, and endeavoured to get permission to travel in a good*-train-leaving an hour later, but the inexorable regulation barred the way and she had to wait until a late hour at night. The other case was at Palmerston, where two girls missed the last train for Feilding and sought.permission to travel by the goods train half an hour later, hut had to he. refused and so walked the twelve miles at night to their destination. Had they been mere men they could have travelled in’;the goods train at their case.—Peilding Star.