"Mild and hazy conditions with increasing haze and cloudiness for an unfavourable change in the weather of heliotrope georgette over pale blue."—New Zealand Paper.
We commend this to our own Meteorological Office.
Of the Bishop-designate of Manchester:—
"Head master of an important public school while yet in his teens ... a permanent figure in social and religious movements ... the author of 'Men's Creatrix.'"—Provincial Paper.
We knew Canon Temple had had a remarkable career, but confess that these details had hitherto escaped us.
OUR LUCKY DIPPERS.
Further and final particulars of the drawings from the Lucky Bag at the Purple City are replete with illustrations of the extraordinary congruity between the prizes and the age, sex and station of the recipients.
Mrs. Sarah Boakes, who received the colossal equestrian bronze statue of Lord Thanet, weighing three hundred tons and valued at five thousand guineas, told our representative that the idea of getting one of the big prizes never entered into her head, and added, "I did not sleep a wink last night; the statue was in my mind the whole time." Mrs. Boakes, an attractive elderly lady of some seventy-five summers, is engaged at a laundry at East Putney. The haulage of the statue to her home at 129, Arabella Road, S.W. 15, is likely to be a costly affair; but Mrs. Boakes has made an application for a grant-in-aid to the Ministry of Health and has received a sympathetic reply from Dr. Addison. The cost of reconstructing her house to enable the statue to be set up in her parlour is estimated at about £4,500.