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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 19, 11 May 1899, Page 15

Such h.is been the rush for the new Multiflex Dunlop tyres in K ti trie md that the Home company for a time were quite unable to compete with the demand. Orders for no less than a quarter of a million of tyres were placed with the bigeompanv within one week, so that there is hardly any wonder that things are humming in the company's factoties. The Australian factory is also working at high prescur.% trying to get out the new tyres on order, which orders, are now pouring in from all quarters of Australasia. — %* Mr. Gawne, of Dunedin (.-ays the Southland Timm of April 13, 18'.U), has ]'ist been on a visit to Invm-nrgill to push business a little. Not that it wants much canvassing, for since he commenctd the manufacture of his Worcestershire S iuce, the demand has kt pt pace with his capacity to supply it. He makes a really good thing, indistinguishable from the famous Lea and Perrins, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that to secure a steadily growing trade. Those who have not yet tried the colonial article should put their prejudice aside for a time and test the question with a bottle or two. — ,% The Paris papers are telling an interesting story of a newlyelected member of the French Senate. M. Bassinet, like many of his colleagues, is a self-made man, and began life as a journeyman mason. In that capacity he was employed to renovate the sculptural facade of the Luxembourg Palace, when the architect, noting his skill and industry, said to him by way of encouragement, ' Why, you couldn't be making a better job of it if it was your own houee.' The young workman smiled, and ia paid to have answered, ' One never knows what the future may bring forth.' He had at the time no political aspirations, but all the same he now sits as a Senator in the building he helped to adorn. Mr. Swinburne has just lost a si«ter, Miss Charlotte Jano Swinburne, who died at her house in Onslow square. Admiral and Lady Jane Swinburne had six children in all, four daughters and two Rons, of whom the eldest, the poet, was born in the year Queen Victoria began to reign. His only brother, who married a lady of Berlin, died eight years ago, and another of his sisters, Alice, has been dead for nearly }0 years. Among Mr. Swinburne's near relations are. strange to say. certain Roman Catholic p nests — Father Sebastian Bowden. of the Oratory, and his brother being the poet's first cousins. Another first cousin, the Earl of Ashburnham, ia a convert to the Roman Catholic religion — a religion which all the Swinburnes professed until the beginning of this century.