ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43070, 19 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

As' the result, of further mineral discoveries at Mount Radiant, north of Westport, an additional 900 acres have boert pepped off. At Dunedin a woman was convicted for the 119th tinie-.-for drunkenness; and sentenced to seven - days' 1 imprisonment. It was stated' that it was intended to have her committed fib the receiving home for drunkards, Christchurch 1 .

Miss Ada Ward, formerly an actress, is opening: an evangelistic mission in Victoria. Her chief lectures are the story of- (her conversion seven years ago by the Salvation Army, an account of stage temptation, and her opinions on “religious” plays. Mir Harry : Stone has left Thames for Christchurch, where he will repre-sent-the Thames Brigade at, the annual conference of delegates from the fire brigades of New Zealand.

At the .St. John’s Ambulance Presentation of Certificates at Paeroa, Dr. Smith, who conducted the lectures, was presented on behalf of the ladies who attended his classes, with a silver mounted shaving set. On her last trip from Hoharb to pha’Bluff the Huddart Parker liner, Riverina, upheld the reputation which she has made for being one of the fastest steamers in. the intercolonial trade, cutting out the passage in the almost record time of 59| hours, ah an average hourly speed of 16 knots.

$|P : At the Pa,eroa Police Court R. Whitton, second-hand dealer, was charged ■With, assaulting H. G. Walmsley, auctioneer for the Thames! Valley Fanners’ Agency. Mr Moresby appeared for the The defendant was fined jH and costs and - \v°.s bound over in himself and itwo sureties to keep the peace for 12 months. Messrs Clarke, whose design for the Auckland Town, Hall hits been accepted, are men with a big record in similar competitions in regard to pul> lia buildings in Australia.. The scheme provides two halls within the building, one to seat three thousand and the other eight hundred, apart from the stage in each instance. ' At; a meeting - of the Wellington Public Schools Cricket Association, the question of inviting a team c-f New (South Wales teachers to visit the colony next summer, came up for discussion..-Mi’ Jas. Fanning explained that while in Sydnoy last, Christmas be had been approached by some o' the-. New South Wales teachers, with a view to arrangements being made for a, team to tour the North Island next-'Chfistmas. The New South Wale- . teachers have frequently toured Victoria, and last year they visited Tasmania. The desire this year is for a 'Visit to New Zealand. It Was decided ito adept the proposal. . vTho Wellington Post in .answer to a - correspondent who enquires whether it "is lawful to manufacture margarine in New! (Zealand, states that the Government's attitude on this question is clearly sot forth in the Margarine Act of 1895. The Minister of Agri--1 culture has power to grant licenses iff a year’s currency, but renewable, a* a fee of £l, for the manufacture of margarine. This commodity may br exported provided that its ‘nature i clearly indicated. There is'a common belief that the importation of margar 'prohibited, but an .officer o f of Agriculture states [that there is nothing in the ,la,w to prevent-that article from coming into this Country. At present no licensee pr the manufacture of margarine are in existence.

A 1 former* resident of Dunedin, who Went to Manila as a dredge hand in the service: of a; Dunedin company, writes interestingly of the country. “If has been kept back,” he says, “by the Spaniards, hut things are moving now, land the Americans are spending large' sums of money ‘bridging the .avers, laying down railroads and electric ear lines, making good roads, and aying off parks and pleasure grounds town itself. Manila, is a fine is<i'd, and though no rain,-has' fallen since I arrived some months ago, everything.is fresh and green. There is a market, for New Zealand exports in these islands. Everything is imported, and' China, America and Anwsralia reap the; benefit, but nothing same® from) New Zealand, the name >f which the people hardly know. Certainly they know nothing about the country. Bacon Costs Is 3d per lb, and iverytihing is very dear. Meat and tinned goods are largely impotred.” Ait the meeting of the W&ihi Hospital Trustees it was proposed by Mr Donaldson that two shelters be erectid immedi-ately for the use of consumptive cases, And, if' required, two snore to he erected later! The number of shelters to be-limited to four. Phe Mayor seconded the, proposition. Drs. Claridge and Deck ‘briefly outinedf their views on the subject. Dr. Deck quoted the Public Health Act, which showed that the Board cannot ■efuse to admit consumptive patiente. On the motion being put to the meeting ■ it wasi Mr Hume being fchei only member voting against •' the ' . • All''

Owing, to the briskness of the -building trade in Poverty Bay, a local timber mill is obliged to work double shifts in order to keep pajce with orders received. 'An eminent physician made the remark the other day tha t all the effort s now being made to cure and stamp out human tuberculosis are fruitle-.s until people have pure sources of meat and milk. lief iSooiety at Dunedin, a motion was carried in favour of requesting Harbour Boards throughout the colony to contribute by way of subscriptions to the funds of the S'ociety. Tinware factories in the colony have increased in number from 12, in 1891, to 54, in 1906 ; and iron and brass foundries, boitennaking and kindred engineering establishments (exclusive of Government Railway Workshops) •frbmi 79 to 132.