AUCKLAND ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 8

AUCKLAND ITEMS.

'(Br TelecniDE.—Snecial CorraSDoadent.) { /'■ ■'.. ' Auckland, December, 1. . .1' As is usual at this'timebf the year,.a'number of cases of-typhoid'fever are inthe Auckland Hospital. Since. Saturday, eight ornine patients' suffering , from.', infectious : diseases have been admitted,;.ftvo from typhoid..' The ■ cases are mostly from Groy: Lynn, Richmond,' and Arch -Hill.-■•;•:..''•'".v. ... '• . ,:' ...■'v:,-./ . . ' .'- Beautifully warm and fine summer weather has now set in, though the temperature is in excess' of the usual maximum : reading:at.this time-of .the; year. Still the heat is-not excessive. On Saturday the reading at. the'local weather> station was 71deg.,' on Sunday 71deg., .Monday'.72degv and, yesterday 74deg.' In proportion to its population, jthich is .estimated at about 1200, Cambridge is very well catered: for','spiritually.. There, are .'already .'nearly, a. dozen religious sects 'operating in.'the :town, and: another one iB about;, to start'ser!vioes.-| - - ■.-'-.. '■ ■ - •'.- '-';'.' ■It--is an interesting commentary on the' in-, icreaso.-in the, cost' of-materials and labour'-in' 'New-Zealand that, whereas 15' years ago. St. 'Paul's Church could have been completed in the; original design 'for; .£4500, it .-.ttill now 'cost ■-.-■ . .-.,■-" "•• .-;:■• ■ .;■ work- of; linking up ..Napier, 'Wairoa,"arid Gisborrie with A -telephone metallio icircuit, will -be put in hand at once; • A'.large'quantity, of > material; has. arrived ■; in Gisborne, 'and, a'start'will be probably; made before the 'end of. the-week. The work will also be pro-; :ceeded'with'at tie Napier end, as well as at Wairoa. ■ .■" .. .■.;■• '.'• •'-.'