ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43082, 16 April 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ; secretary of the' Liberal: and Labour Federation ait WaihL-has. received .a teltgrapMo : comm unioatio n from the Minister of Lands relative to his visit -to-Waihi on the 18th inst; Mr MJcNalb states his ■wdltrngness to meet the Federation- on the evening’ of-thati datey and address- them in the hall. -A! health! jeumaL is telling; people ■ bow; to lie ■when asleep. If it could persuade them to tell the tituh when awake-it would he doing real good service.

The Rotorua paper rises, to remark : “On the (Rotorua railway station may be seteni -the following notice: —"The Railway-Departm-entdoes - not undertake- ajny responsibility in, connection with the running of steamers or the allotmen.t'xjf 'BIRTSS/ ' Quite so; we shouldn't thinkf they i would.” The -Minister -of -Labour states that Ihbor generally ig in a very satisfacitohf' position *in:;New - Zealand. There plenty of Work avaiablle ito the North (Maud / Jor i thoise; .who will go • out .intoj thejicoumtey-and •; undertake bush-fehing. and scrub-cutting. The 'wages:‘-range ifrom 25s- to 85s a wesk and. “found.” i 4 famwelLJishingpairty, tendered to W. Woodward, of the Grand Hotel Who has. relinquished, -the management ■ df thajt Ihlostelry, took /plaice at Rotorua the other daw, wV-w Messrs Ties, ConBbyes, and Woodward Went- out on the lake and spent;a few. pleasant hours together, angling in the meantime, with - considerable •-•success, the basket 'consisting of thirty fine trout. 411 four are old Thames boys. Many reminiscences' of the days'.that are gone were recounted,'and, as is usual on suOh occasions, a hope expressed that all might meleh 'again; to enjoy . ealdh other’s Company.— The Taranafci Petroleum Co. has purchased -a pumping plant to dean out the Birthday well. The manager -hopes to 'have -the bore clear within 1 a month. 'Five thousand contributing shares hiawe-been placed under offer to an outside syndicate for a fortnight. At No: 4 bore -record boring was ac-complished,-viz., 51ft in one day. The bore is progressing well. - Aj subsidy-towards developing the deep levels at Kuaotunu, near Mercurv was recently applied - for'by a I -syndicate, who stated that they - '-would endeavour to. get. the public to. subscribe £2500 if the Government would promise a subsidy of a similar amount/ The syndicate has been informed'that Minister for Mines regrets he is unable to promise any subsidy to *najble a company to be floated on the lines suggested.. Ai pious individual undertook to reason; with! a friend who indulged in the tobacco habit. “Hmv long have you 'been smoking?” “Twenty five years.” “How. ■. many, cigars do you ■ 'amoke al day?’’ “Three.” “My friend,” said -the. solicitous one very impressively, “do you know that you have smoked up, tWo brick or stone houses?” The response-was : “Do you smoke?” “No. 1 ” “Have. you ewer smoked?” f Nk>.”' “You make as muol money as I?” f< Yes.” “Where are your two brick or stone houses?” The topic changed l Suddenly. b The Health. Department, New York (arrested. over twenty persons in , one day for spitting in public places. Thr fineis were increased from one dollar (4s 2d) to two dollars £8 4d) in each case. 'A report issued states that the. Department has.spent £2OOO in investigating the causes of pneumonia, an-.b has discovered.that 70 per cent of all persons examined were, affected bv germs oif the disease. The Department internets to arrest offender it Can, whatever his rank,"until hhe-.pnb-

■ lio is sufficiently r educated, to .desist ■ from the ofbjootionable..,practice ,of ■ spring*..*, Yarmouth’s -unhesitating alio- - ■ gianoe Harry ;Thaw„: ■ now i» &,■. York ; (says jar'Qused.-a gpod deal of. . admiration.. among! .• Iter English H fnenda and acquaintances.. The .future Marchioness of Hereford is one of the < Mmoeti interesting ..members- of :the ■ group of American tosses. .married ■ intoithfe.,peerage . She.ie “Pittsburg ■ |bom and bred,” and she mot her, hus- ■ hand in America, the wedding, taking place ini the town where-her million- ■ sine father , had made his . immense ■ fortune, The Ehr! of Yarmouth is rein Australia as the young who, .dressed ais a. girl, publicly |B danced skirt, dances in Hobart. - BH t Ota .'Septemhier 18th, 1908, Pope X. r will delelbrate the golden, jubiof Ms- ordination to the- Roiman ■Catholic priesthood, - and as has Hloli-takesr-a deep interest, in Catholic Men’s. [Societies throughout, the it' is proppspd tit hold -an, in tercongress, of . young men in on that ocicasion. The Catholics MBrf-Italy. are to provide-the necessary in -cbnnetotion-with ’the festivities and entertainments, which will be ■■carried' -out on; ai somewhat ': lavish ffißvCaile. -A (committee-of citizens of IgßßomO will diretet and (conduct, the ,cere- = The question. of representation of New Zealand ;has been* jraierrted - WMb -the EeSer'ationrElrecntive, - and-.it- is possible - that this colony-will be > epreseutc<h

The Observer states; that an exodus of business men is setting in at the Thames and asks “What for? Surely the deep levels should encourage hopet” Our Waihii correspondent writes . “Mr • !Sl Shaw, of. Waikino, who was brought to Waihi some three weeks ago, suffering- from ■ enteric, has returned home convalescent.” News from Taiupo states that the new. geyser which broke out at Tokaanu on Sunday continues to give fine displays about ; every hour daily, sending a large volume of water upwards to-a height of 80 fefet. It is situaited right in thie township, and is a source of great attraction to tourists. iMr Young Booker, a student of «he Thlaimes of Mines,• achieved the distinction of ibieimg one of two can-didates-in the colony who successfully passed the full examination held recently under the New Zealand . Surveyors’ Board. There .were seventeen candidates, four others the course. • I