ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43084, 25 April 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Police Superintendent- (examining a candidate for. Uiei '“force” as to- ais knowledge of police duty): “Suppose you wanted to- disperse a mob, bow would you use your baton? ’’Gandidate: “I wadna use my barton ava. I’d jist take roun’ .my- helmet an’ try to mak’ a collection.” (He passed). The new geyser at Tokoanu is playing regularlv every half hour, and is a source of great attraction to tourists passing through, as it is by fair the best ini thie whole thermal district, sending up ia great volume of water, about 14ft in diameter, some of the shots reaching over 1 200 ft high. It is interesting to- compare criminal procedure in America and England in the light of the "White and Whiteley murders. In one case the murderer was arrested, tried, convicted, and! sentenced to death in about a month in the other, six months have passed without getting to the end of thie trial, and if the case of Patrick, the Yankee lawyer, who murdered millionaire, tßice,:. goes for anything, Thaw may, event if convicted, escape, punish-ment-for two or three years. To beabsolute “boss” of a huge concern, one must make many enemies. ’The manager of the Exhibition has tested this principle to the full. At present, in Ohristohurch, a variety artist sings a special adaptation of the nursery rhyme, “Two Little Dickey Birds Sitting on a Wall.” The closing verse assumes that if ever New Zetal'aind (hate exhibition, (t will be, “Come back Allen ; fly -away Munro” ;. whereat the audience riseand cheers wildly. Munro has achieve? greatness.

Tlhe Hon. R. MlcNab speaking to a deputation at Tauranga, said he had no hesitation in saying that when new railways had to be constructed if would be the duty of the Governmen 4 to .give every consideration to out lying'districts like Tauranga, but unti" the Main Trunk line was completed

which would require £-300,000 per ar num for two- years, he could hold orf no hope that any new works would b undertaken.

During the Christmas holidays i‘ was reported that a boarder at tl; Pacific Hotel, Thames, was ribbed of sum of money. The burden, of guil that was -thus thirbwm on some persoor persons unknown has been con pletely lifted, by the fact of the monocoming to light in a simple way. Du ing the recent renovation of the hotc in. question a small parcel was di‘ covered under a matt-rasa and i was found to be the' money intact which was (immediately restored t the lucky owner. An- elderly mian, a carpenter 1 trade, who appeared at the Dunedr Police Court to oppose his wife’s ar plication that a prohibition orrb should he taken out against him, sai he was not allowed even to- read ■ i the house, and his life on the who' was not an enviable one. He had nwhere to go but to the publi chous Mr Graham, iS.M, decided to adfou’' the matter, that the wife might "brir witnesses in support of hef%PT>b‘eatioA pitiful tale of unfiilial conduct wr presented to the Christchurch Com the other day. -when an; old wovmu sparsely, clad, and nearly deaf and i> firm, Came before the justices charge ’ with vagrancy, She Was about 7

years of ace, and was supposed to l"Tjisano (by h'er relations, but the do would not certify that she Was it sane. Her daughter refused; to bar anything more to dlo with; her, arr abandoned her mother, all attempt 'to reason with her heinc futile. TV police then adopted the only course possible in order to hare her looker after.

(Seven small boys rested their handon aJ 'bold 'marble "tombstone in Wottoi Churchyard, near ißoCking, on a • t*. Cent (Saturday, says a Home paper

and recited the Lord’s Prayer, th!A.ipostles’ ’Creed, and the Ten Com-

mandments, in accordance with the desire of an eccentric person named GTanville, who was buried there neiarV 200 years ago. For this pious, if peculiar, service, each boy received £2 ouit of the funds left by GlanviUeand had thle additional joy of consuming: refreshments provided by the lord of the) manor, Mr W. j. Evelyn, a descendant of John Evelyn, the diarist, whose tomb is in the same churchyard. .Al New (Zealander writing from the Argentine to the Palmerston Standard says:—'"Phis country has (been on the downward track, so far as turning out butter is Concerned, for three years now. and I expect this season will see 1000 tons less turned out than last. The industry will never be a success on thle present system, and unless the whole thing is changed, New Zealand has nothing to fear from the Republic. The yearly return of a cow is just one-third less here than. in the colonies. henjde the whole industry is moving along, slowly. Beef and mutton are selling well, and it is much easier for people on tKeiland to fatten stock; than ' milk! CoWC. ’lf the Colonial system of dairying wpre adopted here the business tvould go ahead fast, as the pastures are very suitable for the indus- &**■ . j' .!

Mr Vowles, well known at- Thames, who is prospecting! for =■ tin--at Preseowation Inlet, is meeting With sue cess. It is said! the "prospects are excellent, and that there is a probability of an option being taken over the property by an influential syndicate. Mr Rockefeller has given in one way and another, fully ninety million dollars for education, and it is his intention, he says, -to endow scholastic institutions to the extent of two [hundred million dollars befoi e he dies.. He has given over forty million dollars within the year, anid has set uip a special Education Board to distribute the funds.

The Rev. R. J. 'Campbell, now famous for his New Theology l ; is reported to have said, recently: “In. the primitive sense of the word, the Labour party is itself a church 1 , because it is bent upon the realisation; of a moralideal, .and has beicome the. instrument of the ctosmiio purpose; towards that end.” . i