ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43067, 12 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

. *’•’V.* ;• • # Court, opens at Whahi on Alpril lath, when the Miners' Union case ■will .be taken. The' ’Acting-Premier (the Hon. W. , Halt Jones) states tihiait the (New Ze®- ' ‘ land ' Exhibition will be definitely dosed! on 15th April. NerW lime kilns have recently been established ait To Kuiti, on the (Miain ‘ Trunk line, in the King Country. The Frimley Canning Factory will put out 500,000 cans of pie fruit alone thlis season. ; Cambridge Sanatorium claims be- -• tween 20 and 31 percent of recoveries in consumption. ; Owing to scarcity caused through the continued , dry weather, priioe of milk blab been advanced to 4d g, quart in Dunedin and Christchurch. Asher Phillips, a fruiterer at Corse, / Manly (Sydney) was fined £5 last week for allowing refuse to remain on his premises in such a manner as to \ encourage rats. . . A milkman a,t Upper Hutb, Wei iingtoni was fined 20s and 'costs £3 ; m los for selling milk unfit for human ipj^^nsutoption;' yjf* Our - ':- Coromandel correspondent f *.£: y writes r ‘‘Messrs‘F. i Jones and Stockley m'ade a big_ haul of Schnapper, catching 250 -iwithin 4 hours', off the islands of thie gulf. They also caught p other fish- including a hapuka,” ' 31k Tompson, S.Mr, in giving; judg'‘XogF)m!b latl Tailhape in a ease in which was being, suedr for the cost of a banquet, said; ithiat 1 if the .person was present at a committee meeting and Consented to an expenditure, he Would :be personally: ; liable for the whole amount/ “You have got a lot of life to liv< yet before you are as old as you thdnl - ~ you are,” said the magistrate to an old • pension applicant alt Petone, . ‘ when it was shown that the lady was j\ "under agje.” “You never find’ a. lady ' want to make herself older than she’ is, unless it is for an old age pen- . sion,” added! Dr. McArthur, - j Owing to the drought andl. scarcity of feed, stock is selling. { ridiculous prices in Central Otago. At Ida Valley recemtlv a line of sheep ' were disposed of at Is eabhl, and fat sheep which last year brought from 12s to 15s are how offering at h’alf-a-arown. IShiouldi a hard winter set in. it will prove disastrous to farmers and! settlers throughout Central Otago. There is a brotherhood even amongst the “spellers,” says the Wood ville Examiner. The youngest of the « trio whlo were fined, the other day had }]\! onlf i/ hMiE a fcPoWn. The others h!ad > money, and between them they raked up enough to pay the boy’s fine and ;. let him l go free while they went to d 1 their month. The lesson should not b lost:on the boy. ■; SfiLys the Westminster Gazette, un der thte heading “The Anglers Para dise,” “Forty years ago there was not a single trout in all ... the .length! and breadth of New Zealand. To-day New Zealand trout I , are famous all; over fchle world.for their size and numbers, and! thousands of fishermen come, every year simply and solely to fish-—to fish! all the time, and , dp nothing but fish. Whiait a .pity it is / that New Zealand is so far away.” v «'• Jfr R. A! Campbell, a member of staff at the Wia&hi ;Gold Mining Cwn- ’ .. pany, has left for th!e Old Country, to take up a position in thie Well-known • electrical’firm of -Rojcihardsion and Wpstgarthj- Hartlepool. On the eve of "his i dpprtyre. he was the recipient of a handsome cape of pipes, the gift of frieUds withi-whiom he resided, .. Thie dairy factories operating Kn the Stratford! district will pay out just ■over *£20,000 for. the Januairy .milk!, v- to a deputation of fishbrI ifivemirgill,; who asked that •WgMMena netting of trouit at .the -mouth® .of _ rivers and estuaries made, ’th!a)Hon. J. iAJ. Millar wfcAsolfiatfied that the trout had sea. He going *io h!aVe some experimental . irawling! <fqpe . and this might thirow : 4l l g^'onT<ke, ; p3ftJter. regard to ’ mbt|s! S- .P&? fresh water; livers, he v would not afUow'-any netting or trawl- ** ing?: for trout mthin ihlalf a mile of the hi i - • of-iMiilyays has in-- % .^PortMfed'thW^-Otago^ "-Provincial .Ehcedu- ; |tdtb'of..t^ v Ffiroier^ r^ Union that he reegrets.hen oannot sOe ; his .way,; to adopt “ ' the- suggestion ;.of New . Zealand --Farmers!. Union to-grant free passes to enAble 'persons .ihjureid and their . attiefldahit^'^':;toawal., fibe. on -,the rail- . way whlen ta’.the hpspdtal. : At 'MSelboume the Pure Foods; Act—wMch- no, person;, must expOSb-fniit -for sale that is not as far .:;«» protected J&ropa flies ] and -• : : A hawker.was fined 10s and £2 2s costs .fyfor having np covering over his bar■%;!,V. " •

. Al Chtuicfowaa opened at MSangakahia recently. The open- | attended.- % 57, Euro- < peans and 343 Maoris- The service was eonduiciteid .in Maori, and was inbenefit of the Buio- ; peams preaeint. The edifice is 50ft Jifim*. w-24ifc -Md" has a steeple high.

The Chief Engineer 1 of Roads, Wellington, stays the East Coast Guardian, has stated; that thin Government will subsidise the Opotiki County Council £.l for each £1 spent on restoration of flood damage up to £412, and the Whakat-ane County Council a*®ubsddy on the same terms up to £6OO. Biridges and culverts are to receive first consideration-

It has been arranged that a rifle meeting is to he held nit. Tauranga on April 2nd and 3rd April, extending to the 4th if necessary. The programme includes a championship match, consisting of four individual matches, public schools cadet- match, civilians, mounted rifles 1 , ladies, public school 'cadets teams, veterans, regimental' cup, teams' match, recruits match, and regimental shield match-