A lady lecturing at Wellington on hy giene tho other evening, strongly con demned the wearing of corsets by young girls, and the propensities of older women. Grecian women, she said, would probably be shocked to meet what seemed to pass now as the idea of women's beauty. Such famous actress-es as Sara Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, and Julia Neilson did net wear corsets because they knew they could not be graceful if they restricted the natural condition of their bodies. The lec turer u-Iko strongly advised women not to wear long skirts in the streets, and pointed out the great dangers of skirts being made street-sweepers.
A meeting of the directors of the Canter bury Farmers' Co-operative Association, Limited, Tirnaru, was held on Friday to re ceive the annual balance-sheet and to con sider the distribution of profits. The manager (Mr J. P. Newman) said he had much pleasure in submitting, as tbp result of the "past year's work, a very satisfactory statement, showing a record surplus for al lotment. The net amount for distribution, inclusive of the sum of £1245 4s 4d brought forward from last year, is £17,794 4s sd, which the directors propose to allocate as follows: —To pay a dividend and bonus to shareholders of 9 per cent, per annum, a bonus of 7£ per cent, on all purchases by shareholders, a refund of 30 per cent, on all commissions earned by the Association, a bonus of 7j per cent, on salaries and wages, to wiito oh £1000 against freehold pro perties, to arid £3000 to the reserve fund, and. after allowing for a. bonus to the audi tors, to carry the balance forward.
