ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43083, 18 April 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A goodly area of ground in the Tairua district has been pegged out on behalf of a Gisborne syndicate The Ohinemuri County Council has approved of £SOO being spent on the establishment at Thames of a sanatorium for consumptives and those suffering from miners’ complaint.

Since the establishment of a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association at Thames, a large number. of ladies have profited by the instruction given at the lectures and have.brought their knowledge to bear in many cases.

New Zealand champion wrestler beats Austrian ex-champion ait Auckland.

M!r Janie®, S.M., during the hearing of an intemperance case at the Masterton Court, remarked that the people supplying prohibited persons with drink Were deserving of greater punishment" than those who were proceeded against.

The resignation of Mr Kenneth M. Graham as assistant topographer on the staff of the Geological Survey,has be'en accepted. Mr Graham has received a remunerative position in the Federal Malay States..

More fines for sly grog selling in “No-license” Ashburton. Fines up to £4O were inflicted and in one case imprisonment for five weeks Was inflicted. A demonstration was made in favor of the prisoners and other arrests m ade.

'Whisky is at a premium at Oakune, on the main trunk line. The other * ay at Oakune sports the spirit was selling :at from 15s to 20s a bottle. One man landed six cases the day before, and lqirtited the lot at a handsome profit, • The Christchurch Magistrate’s Court is at present Very mizzled as to' what is to be done to an old age pensioner who was arrested . on a charge of being an idle and disorderlv -erson, having no lawful means of suppoitTT» cannot be convicted, because he is in receipt of the pension, which is mnsidered bv the Government to he sufficient for his support. He was remanded.

Asked at Lyttelton if the police had any means of ensure the effectiveness of prohibition orders, .'Sergeant Rutledge stated that the orders had the effect of keeping the prohibited ones out of hotels. The publicans also took cate to keep them out, but many of the prohibited persons seemed t.o have half a. dozen, mates who would procure drink for them. Out of thirty orders issued in Lyttelton, he knew of only five instances in which the prohibited one had kept away from drink.

At the inquest held on the bocto of Donald; Mclntyre, who was found dead in the bathisi at Dunedin;, Dr Fulton spoke strongly about the dangers of staying too long in the water, and of bathing too soon after a meal. He said that the practice—only too common 'amongst young men —of staying for threequarters of an hour or an hour in the baths, no matter how warm the water might be, was an excessively daingerous one, and to do so almost immediately after a meal wa3 simply to 'court disaster. HarTy K. Thaw, Pittsburg millionaire, thje accused in the great murder case, is thus referred to by the Pittsburg Leader : —'“He never earned a cent in his life, and never did anything useful for which he could claim the slightest reaiwrd. The money that was poured into his lap was to him merely the means for the pursuit of guilty pleasures.” The Washington Star proclaims : —'Such -a life as his is am utter waste, whether it ends on the gallows, in an insane asylum, the grave of a suicide, or the ohiance bed of a lodging-house.”

Nothing has been heard for some time of Lionel Terry, but the Carterton Times tells a story to show that the Chinese still hold him in remembrance. A 1 harmless sort of person whose head is l in. the clouds has been wandering about the district lately. On a recent morning two Chinamen were coming from the railway station, one some distance behind the other — Chinaman fashion —-when the simple person Mentioned above appeared, talking eloquently to. himself and gesticulating wildly to illustrate his remarks. A bystander remarked to the first Celestial, “Lood out! Here comes Ldoned-” The Chinaman didn't wait to ask ‘Whiai for?’ They started as if shot, threw one. frightened glance at the muttering stranger, and then, with a yell, they bolted at top speed. Mrs Maybricki has appeared on a public platform in New York as an advocate of prison reform. iShe was soberly dressed in dove .grey, and her countenance was marked with lines due to long suppression of individuality. Her address;, quiet tod clear in delivery, was characterised by cleverness of description and happy phraseology, not wanting din epigram. She made some very effective points in contrasting tlie English! and American systems. Mi's Maybrick has visited twenty-four American prisons, and finds much to- condemn;. She said that a! discharged prisoner often found that the d!a,v of liberty was a dav of despair. When she was released she expedit'd to find friends to welcome her, but they were all dead, and she penniless, with an invalid mother to support had to face an unsympathetic world. She had succeeded in taking up her life again, but to many real ease meant hopelessness, desperation, and relapse into crime or suicide.