ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43082, 16 April 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Our Auckland correspondent telegraphist “The Awfidtod --Presbytery last night BUBtamedsthe call-df the Rev. Thompson, of id: Waipu.” The Sultam of Mtorrooc-o’s admission of the responsibility of Nauiohamp’‘B murder is interpreted in Bedin as. a pledge that Europeans hereafter will be protected and' reforms 1 unimpeded. Regarding the propoaSlH6 a new police district we understand that there is a strong probability of, the'district - comprising : Thames, the 1 ?! f^xbm^hdbF'PetJiflSfUl%7"find''the "East Coast, with the headquarters alt the Thames

lA -party of “strolling musicians,” four in numlber, arrived at a certain township ton the Main Trunk railway at midday recently, and -by 7 p.m. had raised, by the -usual method" of collection, not /'less than .£ls. There is apparently no lack of spare cash ;n these newly-settled district* (says the Wanganui Chronicle), and yet tradesmen say they cannot get accounts settled.

/‘NHnteem scholars were present in 'a, shed To£ft by 7|ft ; built of palings with sft- studs, a’mud -flotor and no - entilationi but that provided by gaps beijwefch; thWshibgleflffofjshbfe' rtootfi 'V At school building albtoulfc midway between the present school -and the beiach is urgently needed.” Sb reported Inspector Grierson on the Tiirohunga school, near Opotiki, t-o the Auckland Board of Education. v-\ -- •*-'

Thera is likely to be a 'keen demand for the 50,000 stores in the North Waimarino block on the Main Trunk line, which! is now being prepared for sale, and will shortly be offered l by the Government. Up -to the present hundreds |of inquiries have been made at the Grown Lands' Office* > •’Wellington), by intending applicants. The land will ble selected under the usual Crown conditions—cash, leasein-perpuitv and occupation with right tof purchase.. It is mostly grazing country and fairly heavily - timbered, though not with millaJble -timber. The land is not suitable for* small dairy farms. Thus the Rotorua paper alter the Besses o-’ thf - Bam Band’s visit: “The wonderful clearness -and precision, the delicate shading, the splendid revelation of power, the perfect balance, made -every item notable. We have listened to some fine band music before, -but never, before, we must confess, have we known, a brass band to be Capable of expressing the emotions as this does, Love and fear, sorrow and triumph* were expressed as perfectly as on stringed instruments, and not only was the ear gratified, but the heart, too, was moved. Nor have we ever heard 'before the *soft organ tones produced by the Besses o’ th’ Barn; indeed, if one dosed one’s eyes, one could; imagi'he oneself in the aisles of some grand Cathedral.” There i® over a column of this by the way! Apropos- of the -recent butchers' strike, offence has been taken in some quarters at certain recent statements concerning the troublesome characteristics of the Australia worker who comes- to (New Zealand. When the slaughtermen struck, it was suggested that the -prime movers in the strike were Australians. The Melbourne Argus, referring to this statement, says; “As a matter of fact, the men whlo aausedi thie trouble were the same men who came over to Australia from New Zealand last year and promoted the strikes at the meat freezing, works at Footsoray. They went back to New Zealand, and there was -trouble there.” The Police Court statistics for Auckland show that- in regard to breaches of the licensing law—drunkenness, disturbing the peace, etc.—-in 1906, 2890 males and 469 females were dealt with, against 2372 males and 463 females for the preceding year. Licensing prosedutiosn increased from 140 in 1905 to 231 in 1906, -and sly-groig selling cases from *2)l males to 50 males, aind 7 females. In 1905, 198 prohibition orders were issued, and in 1906, there were 305. Oases of drunkenness/ show an- increase from 1393 in 1905 to 1498 in 1906.

Writes ourWaihii correspondent: “■Ah instance of the effects of strikes amongjSt the Cotton spinners and weavers of Lancashire was given by one of the members of the Be/ssieis o’ th' Barn Band in conversation with Mr Liveser, a fellow townsmani of his from Lancashire. It appears that during -- an eventful strike i which occurred) there some twelve years ago the strike wals defined by the strike authorities. The villages surrounding this area have extended, flourished, and grown into towns; large buildings and'mills having beeta erected. But bo greiatly was the general confidence shaken in' the spirit of the area under notice that since that time the whole defined district has remained under the bann, and stagnation has Characterised the place.’ A. woman in male attire wias arrested for drunkenness’ in Auckland and convicted. She said that hajvang failed to get work when clothed in the garb of her sex, she thought male attire would l ‘be more useful. ' Mr O. ©ore (Adams, late director of the Thames School of Mine®, thus “gets back” at the members of the Council. Hie is tolling this story in the South. “On one occasion ha put before his council a long list • of scientific instruments and stores required for the school. Hie desired a tachometer least of all, and so he placed this instrument (to register the revolutions of a fly-wheel, or something) last. The School Council looked down the list, and naturally thought that the thing with the weirdest name must be the most important, so it refused to get the plain, half-penny, every-day things, and ordered a tachometer. Mr Adams 1 asked' the 1 CouUdil what a tachometer,Was useful for, but the Council didn’t' know, ’'aftd' orily bought it because it had an imposing namiei. If hie had wanted' a' lan ; olf jarrr to make a wheel-belt stick he would haive had to call it a. “glutinous bota* position of adhesive fructiferous. atom*/ 7 then they would have got ft.**

& S' M V r I tjf£ A correspondent writes : ‘ The mind 3 the'standard'of the man.” I wish to direafc attention -to the fact that Or. Cooper in seconding Gr. Clark’s resdThtion fNirejeOting -the - granting ' of. it&e £IOOO a'bhatoriumr'at Thflnies expressed h-imself thus : was the ihdnfiy to come from I He claimed thkt 'the-^mibney"should : be «pent;lifiputting the roads and bridges in better order.’’

The funeral of the late Thomas Wilcox, whose death took- placer atrWaihi, was largely attended, and many repre-, eentafcives of the mining industry fol-j lowed his remains to their last resting plaice. The burial service was j conducted Btiiddand, part bf :, the servi'ce-w _SE' John’s Church, and the concluding portion at the graveside.—(Own correspondent.) “ ! Our Auckland correspondent telegraphs: “Mr W. H, Toy, of the Herald reporting and sub-editorial staff,' who i® severing his connection with that journal to enter into business on his own account in Wiaihi, has -been presented by the literary staff with a .travelling bag (and, silver cigarejtte case on the eve of his departure from Auckland. The editor (Mr W'. S. Douglas) Who- made the presentation, referred to the esteem in Which Mr' Toy was held, not only by this staff, but by a large icirole of friends in the pity with whom hi® duties had brought him in contact, and iulso'to th!e high r position he had- reached Tn f *!Ha8 r ptb r fession as ai -joiirnalisb. Hia colleagues regretted his him every success in his'Undertaking.”