NEWS ITEMS.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 36, 13 December 1901, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

Eighty-nine applications have been received for the position of head ranger to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society.

In the Rongotea district strawberries are fetching 14s per gallon. Formerly they were retailed at Is 6d.

The average wages for platers in some British shipbuilding yards is said to be £5 a week.

News has been received in Palmerston to the effect that the Sixth Contingent, now serving in South Africa, will return to New Zealand "in January next.

Commissioner McKie, the new chief of the Salvation Army in Australia, who arrived on the 20th -ult., states that General Booth intends to re-visit Australia. He will probably make the trip next year.

A new 60,000 gas holder is at present being erected for the Timaru Gas Company, into which nearly 100,000 rivets have to be driven.

The Greymouth Star states that the Brunnerton coal mine cannot continue to put out coal at the present rate for more than twelve months.

In the Federal Parliament, “King” O’Malley compared his Tasmanian colleague to “a political sausage skin, filled with wind and water, like a Chinese god.” Mrs Mary E. Owens holds the unique office of a sergeant of police in Chicago. "When her husband died in 1889, Mrs Owens secured a post as an official in the Health Department, and worked her way upwards, until she wears a sergeant’s badge and makes daily reports to the chief detective.

The Dannevirke Advocate reports that Mr It. Hunter had his nose broken by the sudden movement of a horse from which he was removing the headstall.

At Waitara a man named Hignett was fined £3 and costs for challenging a constable to fight. But it was the only chance for getting a policeman to be near a fight. An unusual sight was witnessed at Carcoar, New South "Wales, last week, when a large mob of 1000 head of store cattle passed through the town. The animals were m very poor condition, they having travelled from the back country. They had been four months on the l oad.

Sir Hartley Wiliams, one of the Victorian Judges, ti eated a criminal jury to a piece of his mind a fev r days ago. It was at Geelong, in a case in which two employees weie charged with stealing wheat from a warehouse. The verdict of “ Not Guilty ” evidently surprised his Honor, who remarked that “ much valuable time w T ould have been saved had the jury given their decision before hearing the evidence.” The whole of the 10,000 peach trees in the Frimley orchard, Hastings, have been so affected by frosts that none of them will yield any fruit this season. A block of greenstone weighing 9ewt was taken from Maori Creek, West Coast, she other day. The stone has been sold to an Australian buyer at a shilling per pound. Owing to the Australian Commonwealth tariff, Wellington is fairly glutted with oranges and bananas, and this week cases of oranges, piled up to a considerable height, line the space between the wharf and railway in Cus-tom-house Quay. A settler in the Masterton .district expressed the hope that his wool was aboard the steamer Waimate, “for?’ he said, “I have it insured for tenpence per pound.” The three richest men in South Australia are :Mr Barr Smith, who is' worth <£1,500,000 ; the Hon. J. H Angas, £1,250,000 ; and Mr Buite, of Mount Gambia, £1,000,000

The freight in grain between New Zealand and the Old Country, which formerly stood at 35s a ton, has been reduced, owing to scarcity of cargo, to 17s 6d a ton, with the probability of a further reduction by at least one carrying company to 12s a ton.

The Eltham Argus says :—A sequel to the Newton Park scandal.—The Defence authorities are charging the local volunteer corps 2s 2d per day for their maintenance at 'Wellington, where they had little or* nothing to eat, and almost nothing worth eating; while tVr the Christchurch encampment,, where there was good food in abundance, the charge is only Is Bd. Another score for the City of the Plains! By the death of Bishop Chalmers there are now three bishoprics in Australasia vacant —namely, Melbourne, Tasmania and Goulburn. There are also three Yictorian bishoprics—Bendigo, Wangaratta, and Gippsland— to which bishops are expected to be j appointed at an early date. A New York correspondent of the London Daily Express telegraphs “The proprietor of a chemist’s shop in Omaha, Neb., has announced a boycott on shop assistants who part their hair in the middle, and has .advertised for a new patch, saying : ‘Only those who part their hair on the side need apply.’ The chemist says in explanation : ‘Hair parted in the middle usually goes with cigarettes, red waistcoats, and a great faculty- of posing and keeping dressed up. I want men to work. Since I inserted the advertisement I have had application from twenty sensible-look-ing clerks. All of them had their hair parted on the side but one. He was bald-headed.”

Ex-Mayor Andrews, of Winni Deg, recently offered a prize of £2O for 'the best definition of the difference between the Canadian Liberals and Conservatives. Some of the newspapers say that the prize should go to a Mr Langford, of Yorkton, N. W. T., whose answer is that “the Conservative party has been true to false principles ; the Liberal party has been false to true principles.”

A Ballarat clergyman was the other day sued by the proprietor of a local waxworks for denouncing the show as low and degrading. The elergyman produced a copy of one of the "songs sung, and promptly won his case. A pigmy, who said he had come from Central Africa to Zanzibar with the explorer Stanley, and had since been all over the world, was brought before the Court at Cambridge, "Waikato, the other day on a charge of drunkenness. Accused, who is very diminutive, was cautioned and discharged. Government are appointing an additional inspector of machinery at a salary ot £275.

The flax-milling industry is at present very brisk along the * Manawatu line.

The Dannevirke shopkeepers are petitioning to have the hour of closing on Saturday night fixed at 10 o’clock.

A parent who was fined at Carterton for neglecting to send his child toshcool absolutely refused to pay the fine, and offered to “take it out” there and theu.

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