ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43066, 9 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Brain workers are proved to •be long-lived. §3O eminent men \ and. women are taken as a basis, and:their dotfation of life gives-: an average of abonib: 68i yeair» f -

* Miss Jessie MbL'achlan, the famous exponent of / Scottish song, is > commencing. her second; tour of the colonies next month.

®sKMdiie, Government Daily :Cbm* missioner, speaking ait fchle conference said that; o&. per cent of the presentday .dairying troubles, were caused bv the, ; to cool (the milk immedijaiW'! milking. ■ Uhle BnglSh cricketers told the Masiterton. people that the Oval pitch was, the be# they had played .-on in the-.colony. They told .the Napier people thle.-same thing about the pitch on the recreation wnnud there. The distanption appears to be getting comr k !B a Wairarapa

...Russia's St- Andrew ihias a cmaa&ably peculiarity attaching to decorated with it ave thle right once to demand a paton for a Russian condemned to ieath. ' ■ . . ' ; '- ; Ijp. .to send a team «year, tte GoVeTniient -is* suad-ta .'be giving favorable onsidortation to. a proposal that j a MiOtW-ZO men-shall go to Melbourne p of English riflemen Khlo pher. . - ,

’ has decided 1 to iRt Nli : -Sm*th to act as assessor of the Council ajt the sitting Valuation Court should suteb p' 'peceißßiary:‘to recover. any. ,of the ahittfcions, of land in the County ;^i^ri aind Dr. Tyffe are b jowoiiy tlw ooutmts of whose internal [gans -were j sent .-for analysis -to Welbgf on wema exhumed. The Mice* cleclmeft?,give’; any informa* ■: £• ?. I Befofe dhe ' Wellington Arbitration Lurta beodtoaker, for. employing his .ait per week, let; award v&pulated 11 Jd per hour, fend; cost®. ’ The brother, k»«ode|rbmg*'*. the -wage mentionedy layfiiedr tm jmj& coetla'occurreid on Works .afe? Ohakuntei uieiiSdbya 'J» • ’N&thjan: asjd log. jo. T i{ite earth 1 Jtesf yM they had dynamited, too time t tJ# explosion. The men were workfe i»,different Cuttings'. Both the unKtupate felloM sustained injuries to I JSi'afm and face, and! were sent l tic LWasgumi

At tihia installation of Lieut.-Colonel ■tiro. J. (Rj- Reed as- D.G.M., English Constitution, a somewhat interesting feature of ther attendance at the ceremony "Was the fact that several brethren were present who attended! at the ' foundation of the 1 District Grand Lodger thirty years ago. Amongst them may he mentioned BTo. the Rev. C. M. 'Nielson', Bros'. A ""hight, T. : Cole, Collins, Augur, Laird, and loughAin old woman named Eliza Lestrange, charged at the Wellington Magistrate’s Comrt with drunkenness, was Confronted with 186 previous! Convictions, What to do with such a hopeless (Case was a: puzzle • for Dr.’ MbjAirthur. “It seems,” .said his Worship, “a fitting case for sentencing her as an hlabdtual criminal, but; there is no place ready to receive . her as such, and! 'I must take some other course.” Accused laslkledl to he taken hack. to i Auckland, hut was sent to prison for six months.

L Mistress Eddy.; according to New York telegrams ,'h'asi offered her son a Salrge slum to forego all claims against her and the Christian Scientists. (i : ? If yon are wanting; a printing job at once, remember that the News office will be pleased to. give you every attention.