ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43075, 30 March 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ~ -of Thanlesis 4307; 2437 males, and 1870 females. Ai davidebd!' of "Is per share in the (2J Mi. * 06: has been 'dedtredl. | 1310 Raglan town ball, which has; jtfefcbeen completed at a cost -of £600,’ was fornMly/-opened v -hy Mr Green-’ dade.' - - - > •

■ The budldingr tarde in yONW'y Plymouth! is repdbtedi 'nev&r b> haye' 1 been brisker, than- it-is at present. May 'Queen Extended crushed six loads ' from low* - level for a return of 2 1 60zs retorted gold. v It ia reported that the Railway De- 1 partment bias • purchased 1 several bouses in the town of Clinton, wjnch wil ’bc let‘tdi-‘tß!e : railway servants at ■current rates. ' ~

Large ■ quantities of wildydiuek are being received in the Sydney market by steamer from Yictoria. The birds aro carefully packed in cases between layers of sawdust.

'‘The- newspapers; are not to (be trusted,”. isaticlf Mr Rutharford, iStHLR. ; recently,. < Vhieu you, want to form an idea of* the -personality 'of 'Ministers. If yott read' the' Liberal papers, tjjey are saints from, heaven; hut if you read the ConsfarVaibiVe journals, they 'are devils incarnate.” ' iA| hook is at present in course of printing! for the Education Department containing chapters on deep-breathing exercises, prepared by a Wellington instructor. The ohajpters will be of sutehi a nature as 'to enable -teachers to give lessons in deep breathing with- 1 out'further' instruction.

Mr J. Braid, stock, auctioneer, informs us that steers are worth good money in Taranaki at the present time Of about 15,000 calves raisedjn Taranaki thik year fulK 12,000 are heifers. The result is that, there is a diif-' ference of fully £1 between 18-montl ; steers and* heifersl Good weahers art selling'ait 285. :

The shotting for the medal present ed to the Coronjandell volunteers by Hbai Lieutenant Batteon was continu ed. The following are the scores: Private oeave, 38 at 200yds, 28 at 300yds,' handicap 23, total 89 ; Private Egan, 38,’ \ 35, 15, total 88; Sergean J

Gait.la.nd, ' 43, 39. scratch, total 82Captain Horne, 41, 38,' scratch, tots 1 80; Lieut. Gatlanfi, 32, 25, 20. tot a’ 77; Private Paris; 27, 19. 30, tot;' 1 76; Private McCall, 27, 22, 20, totr.’ correspondent.) The matron:of the Timaru Hospit;'' ■wrote to her Board, stating that sh, was experiencing t\he greatest diffi -culty in retaining the services of thmaids who were engaged there. Th

reason for this was thahthe girls oouh‘ get more than the 11s per week pai hj the Board, and she suggested ir creasing thie pay to 14s 1 per week There Were four nowwho were prepar edi to lave if the wages were not ion creased, and one wanted a, month ’ holidiay as well. The Board 1 decided t increase-the wages of the maids t/ T"4si per week; huf to draw the line a ; tL ,s e month’s holiday. ' Regarding the Thaw murder tria and' the' that’ Thaw is sufferm. from parouTj^ a, > it is intei'esting ti note that the' condition known a; paroriria is one .hi which the subjee is liable ■to morbid dreaming, leadin often to disastrous retpdts. In an ar tide on “Dreaming,’ tiiS Alexande Bruce refers to a case quoted..by Dr OgUgJion, of Momingside Asylum* ;:f-bnrgh, in which a confirmed som- ; iXjnfeulisfc during his sleep seized • child, to whom he was devotedly at ; taiched, iand caused. His death by dash ing him against the wall under llu belief that he saw a wild animal ir • the room. The man in question, was ac quitted l on the. charge of murder, it bieing held that he was not responsible during sleep. % • ■

“This year,i[vill outstrip last year ;r point of public revenue,” sai<£ the At-torney-General: at -New Plymouth, “by a far greater sum. 1 than any previous year outstripped l its predecessor.” As an instance of the colony's prosperity he quoted the Savings > Bank returns. In 1896 the amount of dOporits’nwas two-and a half millions.' tast : yetr tlie amount yfas seven millions, an 1 th’year the amount would he even great er than that. For the year _T9Dd the mining companies in the Transvaal distributed’ in dividends £6,146,432, an increase »f approximately £1,000,000 over the amount distributed from the same source in 1905. The mineral output of the Transvaal is now at the rate <.f £30,000,000 per annum. The mines of thiet 'Rand produced gold in November at the rate of £25,000,000 per annum. In November these mines employed over 7000 more colored laborers than in. Jahuary;"and 1000 fewer white men. To prevent the introduction of petarscaib into the orchards of the colony, the! Goive&hent has prohibited the importation of fruit and trees affected with this pest. For a similar purposieraregutati<m;fe brought into foreo providing that no pdar; apple, dr. .quince) trees shall be introduced, from any! North .AknOrdeian country, unlees acootopdniedf by. a certificate stating that the trees come from a/ dis? JxicQ fire©

Referring to the question of waste Native laud? a iSeuttfeni speaker* said, it Was quite surprising to see blow well forest amidi fruit tree© grow, on sucih) almost * pure • pumice land as constituted about 2,000,000 acres of the unused native latndis in the '.North Island. Fruit trees." grow there as luxuriantly as anywhere else, and 1 he had never seen suicih splendid! bluegums as there were in some of the (plantations. The Government plantations there were a revelation to South Island visitors. He predicted a very fine future for this pant of the country. Printing in one, two, three or more colours is executed at the News Office in the most up to-date styles. We also .make a speciality of engraving blocks of building trade-marks, etc., for printing purposes.