ITEMS OT INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43067, 12 March 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OT INTEREST.

>gSj£.' A,' parent,'Nvs» was" before the Court HHI! Mangaweka!, 'send bos child to. soho-ol V-V an # fche' ground that the latter had “a ray active brain.” An unsympathetic ' 'Benchr fined and cautioned-the defend- - ant _ In connection, with .Miners’ Union Day, our Waihi correspondent ■writes? “Attention is draiwn by bhei secretory Igpif the WaaM Miners’ Union to clause 31 of the Arbitration Award re holi- - days, which read asi follows: Miners’ Union Day shall be observed as . a ‘ . 'general holiday, and all men required ' to.yriwk on that day (with the exception of those .necessarily required in connection with pumping, and aaiyi breakdown " of' machinery and. a 'cyanide process) shall be paid double . time.*' v In the Wellington - Magistrate’s :k?%- Court, the Inspector of Weights and fsj, Measures prosecuted Alfred James IVost, butcher, at the Lower Hutt, on . a charge of having had in his possess- ‘' sion imperfect scales. Mr Wilford ■■-V" pleaded guilty on behalf of the defen;7r - dant, and eorplaimed that his client recently purchased the scales from an- . Other butcher. The inspector stated that the scales save the seller 3fozs , ,advantage over the buyer on all goods •r : we'srhed on it. His Worship imposed a fine of 20s, with 10s 6d costs, and ordered the scales to be confiscated. Mutton received a good character v 5n a recent Case in London, in which proceedings were taken against a butcher for supnlyincr' diseased pork. ;« A Mir Montagu Lush (for the defence): '1 [Fork is like milk, that is the most receptive of these basdllic poisons ? Dr Ross: Yes, pork and veal. Ther© is a meat which' bias) never poisoned anybody- Mutton and lamb never poisoned anyone. That is an interesting fact. (Laughter.) The Judge: You may eat as) mulch frozen mutton and lamb ala you like? Witness: Yes, they have never been able to> rake up a case against mutton. Nobody' has ever been .poisoned by lit. A! sturdy little boy, just three years old, conducted for the band playing before the main entrance of the Christ phurch ’Exhibition recently. Ai large srtwd gathered round and watched Mm with amazement- Throughout a lemg seduction 'hie conducted with all his musical soul, hiis right, hand moving though it held a baton and had wielded 1 one for years- Thie child's name is Horace Bissiedl, and his love of mtilsac is bred in the bane), Ms father, who belongs to Sydney, being a member of the Exhibition orchestral, and his mother is a skilled musician, while the musical talent of the family goes further back on both sides.

\ . No better advertisement of Tarapfdri's productivity could be afforded than, the transference of herds of sheep from the drought-stricken districts of the South Island to the “Garden of -New •Zealand.” Within the past fortnight over 10,00(1 sheep have been p°Ti,t from Canterbury and Nelson to Taranaki, and numbers of these have ‘ already -found purchasers at the saleyards, the majority, of course, having been bought prior to shipment by • vlocal buyers.,There is every evidence • of there being abundance of winter feed, especially throughout the back districts, and Taranaki should this winter provide winter pasturage for thousands of sheep without stinting the native herds. ’ According to Mr C. F. Speare, in thi© American Review of Reviews 1 , there is ; a most extraordinary rush of investment A thousand dollars? worth securities Wa®, he says, in 1906, and most of it since spring. The market value of • these stocks has appreciated at varying rates of from fifty to one hundred tb several thousand per cent. One • Ganadian mine of cobalt and silver grew from a five million dollar to a forty million dollar proposition in a season. The New York market has been dealing in ai quarter of a million shares day. .. - ' *; It is stated, on -the author! to of a ■'-■'.representative of the employers, that f thie wages of the slaughtermen, when the stock for killing happens to be - prinoinally light lamb®; may amount to as much >as £l4 for twelve days’ workj as shown by the pay books. At .-'-"VftJim'-rimes, hie may only earn from 14s fk> 18s a dhy, which Would not, A .however, bv many oeople, be account- , edl/.bad wages. The men’s earnings for (the season, which lasts from December - till May, are said to work out at an Vfavertig-eTbf about £3 a week for the 1 J entire year. During the off months the men are generally engaged at~ other ' ■employment. Our Waihi correspondent writes: 7 Dunne, of Katikati, reported to Sergeant McKinnon that two , skulls and! a number of human bones had) been found on the beach at Anderson’s Point, near Katikati. It is believed' by the older residents of the district that the remains! are those of . .. Alexander Anderson and Arthur Stewart, who were drowned in 1895 while on their way to Tauranga in a boat. The of Anderson and Stewart . are the only .bodies of persons drowned in the vi cinity which have not been ...recovered. The sergeant reported the to matter to the coroner, Mir Max D. King, who has authorisedl the constable to bury the remains without an inquest. : , ' ; Some comment was made ah the ■ Wellington Education Board at tht - reluctance of-the young teachers leavmo' the Training College in Wellington .to accept situations as assistants or as sole teachers in charge of small schools;-.in ;tb©: country. Owing to v•r tb e lack - .of eligi Me candidates for . noprtjon® worth £9O to £l2O per yeair, u ■•-<;- ■Pound necessary in several in•.ir»y. to.-a.nnoinh, young persons from i-pmitxaite- of; the colony or re-ad-' .v'-rrisa .It appears that in some ■ yases the rating lady teachers find a rjiffioiiltv in, securing board and lodriu<r with- the aettlers, and when it, •h .' -fuea known that Accommodation e p r'thri tr-achy >* mycticallv unobtam- . chV Board, has no option, but to i >lo*> 'the ftchool. ' %