NEWS ITEMS.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 42, 7 January 1902, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

Iwo Scottish drove.is were sleepinp - Irene;.th a. tent by the side of the sheep they v. ere overlanding, when one suddenly awoke with a, heart-rending cry. ‘* What s the matter, Donald ?” called his startled companion. “Are ye hairt ? ’ **Qh, Sandy, nion,” explained Donald. “Qh’ve just had an awfu’ dream—irwas just terrible.” “Did"ye dream the tent had fallen in ?” asked Sandy. “Worse than that,” replied Donald. “ Did ye think we’d lost the sheep ?” Worse than that.” Did ye think your guidwife and your bairns were died ?” Worse that that, Sandy, explained Donald, wiping his fevered brow with cold tea. from the billy. “Ah dreamt- we were back in Scoatland agen.”— ‘ Australasian.’

The Customs returns for the part of Wellington for the year just ended total £425,612 15s lid, as against £497,618 6s for the year 1900. The Palmerston correspondent of the Wellington Times says : -Sheepbreeders living near the town have suffered considerably lately by the depredations of dogs from the town. During the past month Mr R. Stevens, a well known settler, has had ten sheep killed and several seriously injured by dogs. Irish terriers are the .principal offenders. Mr Stevens has written to the Borough Council suggestingthat the taxon fancy and sporting dogs be increased to £1 per head.

It is not generally known that the extreme penalty for failing to bury an infant within a legally gazetted ceraeterv is, under the Cemeteries Act, £SO. A Tauranga magistrate fined a defen-

dant £3 10s in connection with the illegal disposal of the body of a stillborn infant. !

As an instance of the extent to which farmers hi e being “ hit” by the present low price of wool, the Hastings Standard mentions that it has seen account sales of a small parcel which showed that a bale of 4021 b of- first class English Leicester brought but 2|d per lb, and netted the grower but 23s 3d, less exchange A short time ago a bale of wool would have been good for £2O. VJhen the British Admiralty officials were given an opportunity to inspect the submarine boat destroyer invented by Mr Ellis Howard, of Hobart, says the London correspondent of a Melbourne papery they refused to take the least notice of it. The working model had .been constructed, but the officials said they could not look :at anything short of the full sized boat, which would have cost the inventor thousands of pounds to construct. This was, qf course, only their way of getting rid of him. He has since taken his invention to Russia, and the naval authorities there have promptly agreed to give it a trial in connection with their programme for the construction of new submarines.

The- King, writes a London correspondent, is said to have expressed a desire that the congregation at his coronation shall be British subjects. He has resolved upon this course because many trans-Atlantic and Continental personages are offering large sums for a seat on the occasion. He has decided that the mere fact of any seat being sold will dispossess both the holder and the nominee of the right of oecupving it- The King has been greatly chagrined at the extent to which the right of occupying seats in the Abbey has been bartered. Evidently the Yankees are trying to work a corner in coronations. The New Yorkers have been using the coronation as a means of self advertisement, and tile papers have been full of accounts of the dresses that Mrs This and Mrs That, are to wear at the ceremony. The New York Journal gravely asserted that the reason why tne K fiiinoor was to He set in Queen Alexander’s crown was because she was afraid that her own jewels would be outshone by those of a wealthy American, who had ordered a. coronet similar to the Empress Josephine’s, to cost £250,000 ! Mr Napier, M.H.R., last week sent the following telegram to the Minister for Defence “ Notwithstanding your promise to pay returned troopers £5 each on account of their vages, nothing has been paid, and some were here (in Auckland) penniless at Christmas time. This scurvy treatment of the returned troopers does not reflect credit on the Defence Department. The volunteers of Auckland are likewise indignant that their wages for attending the Royal review in Christchurch- last June have not been paid.”

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Says N.Z. Bulletin : Mr W. A. Neale, chairman of the Wairoa County Council, is instituting a carrier pigeon service between fiis homestead (Waihi) Waikaremoana, and Wairoa, so as to keep in touch with County affairs.