ITEMS OF INTEREST

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 4308, 20 April 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Building! is said to be very 'bjrisk at Frankton just now. Twenty buildings are about to ‘be erected. The Paeroa Lawn Tennis Club tournament was concluded, When Mr C. Meredith defeated Mr H. !H. Wilson in the hamdi'Oaip Singles by 6—2 and 6—l. Wo are 'pleaded to learn that the country districts, are making good progress in taking up land and erecting up-to-date residences. Mr Jones', of Hawera, who recently purchased a goodly portion of Mr Elliot’s estate, has let a Contract to Messrs Potterton and Black for the erection of a commodious residence. Bishop Wilson, of' {Melanesia, is visiting. Sydney. Interviewed he declared that .there is not thie slightest doubt , that natives resident on the islands would be extremely glad to welcome returning Kanakas nor the slightest douibt of their ability to feed them. Those who spoke of the inhumanity and danger of returning Kanakas spoke, without knowledge of the true facts. Any, real trouble would be of more serious danger to the whites. Many of 'the returning natives find the whites in possession, of their lands sold to them fairly enough by their friends, but for which the share of profits will be found not to have been- paid over. A Press Association telegram, states that the colonial mails which left Wellington on March! ,8 to oonnefct at Sydney with the Naples mails arrived in London on the 14th inst., duo date. Australian floefcowners have been purchasing, somewhat extensively in this (colony of late, and auite a number of standard type sheep have been shipped to the Commonwealth for stud purposes. Regarding the appointment of Mi J. MiaAtrthur as engineer to the Ohinemuri County, the Wadhi Times re marks :—The Council, it is confidently believed 1 , has made a very wise choice Mr . MdAtthur is a young and dapabh man, and should be well fitted for the important position, to which he hr been appointed. He has lately beer engaged ‘as mine surveyor to the Waih : Grand Junction. ‘Company.” 'Speaking to the audience after hr presentation at Waihi, Mi* Hendersoi referred to the need of a technics' school in Wadhi. He had been a **er little time at Thames, but sufficient!; long to satisfy himself of the grea, J benefits of such an institution. H felt that he could not do Waihi f better service in leaving, than to *irg' upon the next Council that should b elected, the advisability of pressim forward this movement. The New Zealand Trade Review re fers to thie general ■complaint aibou the difficulty of collecting money. I says the Christchurch Exhibition i blamed for This, but, suggest it is onl one cause, whioh is the tendency o people to live beyond their means an at an extravagant rate. A shooting match took place a Karangahake between, right balf-cioir pany {Paeroa) and thie left half-con 1 pany (Karangahake) of the No. 1 Ohanemuri Rifles. The right half wo* by a majority of 15 points. Over 10,400 nameis of visitors, wit 1 particulars of their age, weight, heigh and nationality, and with; comments have been entered in the Govemmeb Life Insurance Department’s book a" the Exhibition. Maoris now hold th weight reicord for both sexes ,a lad | from Kaikbura having turned the seal Lthe other day at 18st 101 b. The “sweated industries” exhibit ir the Exhibition has attracted the atten tion- of very large nunihars of women who have expressed great surprise a,' the fact that “sweating” is evidently still_Bo rife in the Old Country. Many of them say they cannot understand how women at Home can make ? whole, garment for ai price for which women in New Zealand Would hardly put in the sleeves. A hotkey mlatfch Was played at Karangahake on Saturday afternoon between Paetoa and Karangahake, and was won by Karangahake by six goals to one The scorers were: Dogulas (2), Montgomery, Heron, and Jury (1) each, and Hann. 1 scored the losers one goal. The gaimo was never fast, perhaps due to the first match of the season. Mr Corbett made an efficient referee. “During the time I have 'been connected with the Society for the Protection of Children, I have seen some very teml’Me cases of ill-treatment.” “In one house I visited I found six babies sleeping in the kitchen. One of them was nestling in a kerosene case, another in a fish basket, and a fourth in a wooden box so small that the little chap Was 'cramped into a ’frightfully uncomfortable position. One 'comforter’ served for all six. Sbme of, the children were suffering from measles and chiokenpodk, but that did not matter. H one began to ory the 'nurse’ would -pluck the comforter &<om andther’s mouth and pop it in the mouth Of the bawling infant. At another house I visited I found two children; playing shop. They were selling each other ice-cream, and the stuff they wore selling and eating was the filthy water in the open gutter. They were mooning it up and gulping . it down with great guato.”

The proposal to erect a crematorium; in Wellington is well in hand. .Mr J. F. McArthur, draughtsman of the Waihi Grand Junction, has been appointed engineer to the O'hinemuri County Council. There were 11 applicants. Thus the Wanganui Chronicle: “Such is fame! In speaking of Mr John Grigg, the well known astronomer of the Thames, the Nelson ‘Colonist’ repeatedly refers to him as Mr John CKRigg.” (Mir Geo. Munns, manager for Messrs Hague-Smith and Co., at Waihi. has been induced to allow himself to be nominated for municipal honours. The Hon. Mir MdNfab, Minister for Lands, will address, a public meeting at Paeroa on Friday. A telegram from Wellington says : i “(Sterlet fever is very prevalent in , Wellington. Forty-four cases in the ( city have been notified to the health , authorities.” i