ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43071, 21 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lewis Lambkin, aged 16 years, died in tbie Narrandera Hospital (Victoria) from blood poisoning, caused, it is thought, by the kick of a gun. Mr • Michael Pette landed penniless in NWI York twenty years ago*, and was forced! to enter a poorhonse to avoid starvation. He has just sailed for Ekirope to purchase art object® for his new £25,000 house at Woodhaven, Long Island'. Ha became a millionaire by successful speculations in land and houses!.

HajweTa is at present suffering from an outbreak of measles, through Which the attendar ,e at the State school was reduced by 150, and the school is now closed. In consequence of the outbreak a Combined schools’ picnic Voon (New Plymouth, which was to -'lave been held in Hawerai, has been Cancelled.

•As the result of further mineral discoveries at Mount 'Kadiant, north of Westport, an additional 900 acres have been pegged off. Dr. Bell’s report on his visit to the mountain last week is awaited’with much interest. From the number of letters received from' prominent public men in Dunedin and elsewhere, there is every Indication (says the Cromwell Argus) of a great fight for the immediate continuation of the Otago Central railway from CLvde.

A subsidy of £ls has been approved in favour of Mr J. :S. Wilson towards driving a, further distance of 100 ft in the Handsworth Claim, Kuaotunu. It is anticipated by the prospector that the Handsworth reef will be intersected about 130 ft from the present working face. In the ‘Monthly Journal” issued by the Chamber of Mines of Western «AustraJlia ft is stated that the mines of that State paid £1,992,062 in dividends during the year 1906, being a decrease of 175.577 compared with 1905, when £21167.639 was disbursed ‘amongst shareholders. A- young man named Sanderson, employed on a planing machine at Messrs Forrest’s mill a.t Paeroa, met with an accident that necessitated; his the Thames Hospital. By some, means his hand slipped, and coming in contact with the planer, the tops of three of his fingers were severed.

It is estimated- that 1000 men ar<nn the Power'd 'm col' 1 fie’d. Fresh ds cover es are expected'. In one tease 500 men are working 1 on five acres, turning, over the ground to a depth o f afoput 4ft:. Last week their united efforts , produced three nugsrets—l43 oz, ofoz. and 4oz. On another claiTr there'was a portion of ground avoid ed by the searohers on account of a. colony .ofr apt**having settled upon it yin'er the colony, and gold to the value of £IOOO. • Wq team that -an application totV Mines Department for a subsidy to .dri%ng a, tunnel a. distance of .InOft pnp^|(^i , ;/Ha\irak'i ! Cinnabar mine. Thames, drasibeen declined, as most of the work was completed prior to the receipt of the application, and it is not the practice of the Department to pay for 'Work done before a subsidy is granted'. 1 ■Ait thle General Council of the 'Prohibition party of (New South Wales quotations, were made from New Zealand, showing how hopeless was the «k/of 'carrying No-license with a ee-fifths majority. A! resolution was massed emphasising the importance of amending the existing liquor law in the direction of securing equality at the 'ballot. The party decided to give their foeartiefet support to those members' who would vote for majority rule. - - It ifi! proposed .to have' ai world’s fair in 'San Francisco-in 1913. A bill has foeen. :? ig|roduosd in the California. Legislature"" to' provide ways and means. The not''too modest sum of i 2,000,000- dollars ds desired, to be lontributedi as follows:—3,000,000 lollars from the State), 3,000,000 dolars from the citizens of Shn Francisco tnd 6,000,000 dollars froin the United states Government It is too early :o tell whether the projecet will surfive the attempts to raise 12,000,000 lollam

We note that another communioar aon has been received :hy the Mines lepartment from the Old; Thames Soys’ Association Urging the Government to amend the present Mining oatj iso that the, fullest advantage lay be taken of ,it to test the deep wels at Thames, and! with this olh>ct that the Government should get re opinions of the best independent lining experts, so that it might be in position to formulate a defined olioy for deep sinking. The associaon has been informed! that on this

ear’s appropriations of the Mines apartment would foe found the ifolwing item: “Testing deep levels, liames, £ for £ subsidy (on account “ £10,000), £1000.” Under that em, as soon as a scheme is suhmitr <d and accepted' by the Government, ue full amount of £IO,OOO will be tyaifole as the work proceeds; but if y agreement is entered 1 into before lie 31st ’Mkrch next, there is no assurioe thattfoef yo-ts Kill be; xenwred. * ■ ■■ -- ,'