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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1905, Page 3

The youthful King of Spain, whose marriage is a matter of such immediate interest, had the experience, rare among monarchs, of being born a King. His father had been dead some six months when the infant, borne on a golden salVer, was first presented to his Court. He adores the motner to whose watchful care he owes his life, and hers is the only influence to which his autocratic nature has readily submitted. ' Alfonsito ' is one of the pet names by which she called him when a child, but no one else might ever use it. When a Minister once askeS, ' How are you, Alfonsito ? ' the baby-King said haughtily, ' To mamma I am Alfonsito, but to you I am the King." At a trial of a 3 Disc Benicia Plough at Cambridge, fully 50 reoresTjntative farmers of the Waikato were present, some came thirty miles to see it. The trial was in swamp land, with rushes three feet high, the plough cutting them clean out, and tyuite easily with four horses. One farmer present, when booking his order, exclaimed that he would be ' a made man.' He had been naving £3 5s per aore to get the rushes cut out by hand. With the Benicia he will be able to do fblly four acres a day....