ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43065, 5 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

*- , : ; ... ; • ttjtf Tennis Club is making . to play a friendly Toaatcls. the Paero* Club at an T*&> pMvitfer detectives employed by. the Dunedin Jockey Chiib turned off this racecourse a woman who Was seen .making curious signals under the judge’s box. They Watched 1 her, and found, ter evidently signalling with an umbttjfet to some people on the top . of the MB. They inquired into the | uma/ttesr, and the woman owned up to j the wboby thing. It turned out that flhie was signalling to siomeone on the hill who was communicating with) the town, fend 1 in that way letting people know the winners within a minute <ttnd. ; or two minutes after each : *aoei

. Mr Petrie, Chief 'inspector of Schools m the Auckland! district, interviewed as to his impressions of the oonfer-ence-qfilhspecftora; said: T think a conference 6£ all inspectors and principals of training colleges is too big. They take too long to deal adequately with! matters. With 40 or 50 memit takes a fortnight to discuss it happens that ab the of the meeting important things rushed’ through because everybody iS>easy. of ; thia proceedings. f What is wanted' ft a conference of aibdut fifteen iAJ boy named Jatnetei Anderson died decay recently at the City Minneapolis. He was only; m>(nmen years aind two month® old, huh ythe, physicians declare that the condioff his vital (organs sbowe<k-all the' characteristics of a man of sixtyri When the child! was Six yfcars old'his I. hair began to turn grey, his eyesight to fail, and he walked with the dfefib I erate care of a person well advanced I in years. As ai Vfery young child AnI derisoni was unusually bright, but his mqntal faculties gradually failed during hid last two years, and for some ■aonthe he behaved, as though in hr?,

B Preston after ™ 3Tl B' up” ain important service in a newspaper man found ■ soa-Mw opposite him in the railway ■ compmtment a priest who was reWm him with considerable at- ■ 'tension:. Ait ... last he said: “I fe |||l ho'’ o you, are connected with the H press ” -The reporter acknowledged ■ T ie ‘There is. one thine ■ 1 ™ you gentlemen of the n?*** ■ for ' bore in the north r ’ ■ J“ nfe ng, of course, that he was to be ■ favoured with some statement of |* ’mpoft'ance the reporter gave his un- ■ dmdod attention. “Yes.” the cleric T wish. vou would gir e . m ' thejlortberil foot-’

? ro ' ,ffht theH&uned'v Under the °° al ' Mine* 'jSjJ; J*®*® Kristie, the manpf Saddle Fill coal m ; ne , W »«oceeded against by the inspector o { ■nmes for acting in the capacity o f »an a? rer of a mieKy-M which more tv^ m ifiir ere 6mpl °y ed ’ not h of » firshekss oertiRSTaU 9 .managrer ip terms of ■Jf ptye&y ,whv acted for Hhe said that under the ■“J n f mine manager holding a sec ■** elaas certificate could "employ OTtv • men ™ a mine. ori defendant employed 22 brought as r »ammg. Defendant wag fined 1 20* ■id

I For some time past the Otago had great diffillty m securing certificated teacher* r .schools mf thia--..b^: i bji disK»Aand at present! seweral BU cih «he of unteachers. An effort is 'h' 6 ' madia to _ remedy this pe aind at the neett meetr ‘Board the Rev ***& « »tft>n s>;■s* effect m&t this Bbiaa-d lag unfa? .the.:notice of the Edutiati-on th)e urgent of .being made in | teachers jSalariee Act whereby 10 fpdnti, sball.be addled to the salary Iceachers oooupying certain schools fcjmh waypbees as have ■ferto;; failed to attract qualified jwrfded thfe teachers in <Sertiificiateo equal S^. in ® imjilap ’ schools |r the centre of -K^ulation. paper J- Out. of Plaice.—lt almost invariW- happens that those who attend idtoor band. -|>ertormafaiqe^ : : 0 f an intent on enjoying the lie, annioyed beyond measure |ig to sthiall bbyis being out of place I selecting-the vicinity- of the hand Id- tfc shout, whißtle,--alpd rush I l *' ; ! v®e ,; t naturtlly hWe fcght a performance by the Besses fcV Ifclro Band would ;*-'iiave been Pcompaniedi by youthful disturb- ■ it wW not so),andSiiot a few ■msef- who attended Trafalgar Park v disappointed o* 5 their anticipated, ■sure by a number of children play- ■ within thfe enclosure under the I eyes of- a police officer. At length Incise'of the dhiEfdren distrained ■Band,'-and the ooadujctor was oomffidtto stop in the middlo of. a, seleo iuntil the nowy children were -ire*»

Aii effort is being made to staid .an infantw Volunteer corps in Hamilton. The annual conference of the 'Methodist churiCihies in New Zealand will be held in Christchiurtah on March Ist jit is expected/ that th)e conference willbe thte largest yet held in New Zkiland “Granny Craske,” the oldest living Salvationist, who has never entered a train, celebrated her 100th birthday at Sheringbaim, Norfolk, on December 18th. iSh'e has lived in the same, town all her life.

The plague in New .South Wales! hah cost the Government of that Siatlh £40,000! a year for eight years I'he Lord Mayor' of Sydney says that for £30,000 Darling harbour and BlacKwiattJe Bay can be given, a rat-proof seat frontage). . • ■ V.,! }/\ The Minister of Education wa&i interviewed at Christchurch, by tat ion from thJe Society for thle Prevention ot Cruelty to. Animals, and promised to do his best to have a Vote put on the estimates , this year !/to subsidise the revenue of the prints pal. societies in the colony. .£$ ' A' veterinary surgeon at Palmerston North was Called in to, attend tf' horse,

with a discharge from its eye. Oh making examination he discovered a piece of wood embedded in bh'e corner. Oin its removal the. splinter wasjfpund 1 3|in long by half ap 'inch tfcaek. ■ .