ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43088, 4 May 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Speaking of morality as the most essential principle of social life. Bis-. hop.Neligan, pointed to the .regrettable increase, in the number of affiliation cases, cruelties to children, and similar misdemeanours, no fewer than 258 cases of this kind having been dealt witlidn Auckland during the past 12 months.

At a meeting <yf the Canterbury Tirades and Labour Council a motion was adopted expressing regret' at the information disclosed that the Christchurch police employ a Chinese cook and) purchase their vegetables off a CMnaman.

The Bessels o’ th’ Bam Band make their last appearance in New Zealand next. Sunday, -when they give an m>en air performance in aid of the Season Memorial fund. The Besses will have raised more, for this fund that my province in New Zealand! ,

At the annual dinner of the Society of St. George (New York branch) Admiral Ooghlan made a pun which was received -with “roars of groans.” Said he: “At these gatherings it is not thie menu! on, the table that gives you a pleasant evening, but the men-u sit by.”

A gentleman who hats just returned from ClirLstchurch made it his business while there to inquire into the probabilities of a severe slump followExhibition. Ail his investigations tended to 'belief that business will merely resume its normal proportion®, and that there will be nr unwonted slackness. Not only will the demolition of the Exhibition buildings employ a number of men for s’ome months to come, 'but there are a number of lajrge contracts pending and several others have been conduct ed. 'Shopkeepers also have no fear o' 1 a slack future.

Speaking at his silver jubilee oe brattion Dean Hlackett expressed ' indebtedness to Mon s ign or O’Rei for his presence that day. In the M< sisnor the older residents of t Obinemun found a zealous pastor, a be (the Dean) a brother priest whc friendshiip never wavered and wbc counsel ever proved wise. Regardin- the shooting season o Waihi correspondent writes: “It generally expected that somewhc about a hundred will hie them for from our town “to riffle, kill, ni plunder.” The Piako, the Thames c trict;, Te Puke, Matata, Katika Wbaingam ato, Waitawheta. and Maf tan a are amongst the places nam-i by' sports men as their objective di nets in search of the feathered tribe At the Convent school at Paeroa mnquet was tendered to the Vet lever end Dean Hacfkett to mark tl wentv fifth anniversary of his ordin 'OD 1 . It was m ad e a, m ost mem ora b traction', about 300 guests attendin' nd several felio'tous and eitlop'st' peeches were made. The R,t. Rr > fonsignor O’Reilly presided and mad congratulatory speech. Dean Harkens presented with a purse rvf cm reigns, the total amount being £IH The Mnrrunrr Post contends t) raiments wherewith the Governing ‘ret the Premiers on the preferpn iiestion should be published dn.»lv dlv. If th' o - Government refuse nke pTOc+'icnd advances the nation ititled to know whether thev a’ ending for dear food or of fear r reign retaliation. Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R.. speakin Wyndhafm, said : “In Rnrotom? 1 young man and young woman, a? owed to walk out together of a ening without each carrying ?hted torch. If they do : months on roacL-miaking, and th ids I walked on at Rarotonga wer*. > finest. I ever walked upon.” 0 An extraordinary case which has m puzzling : some of the Taranaki dical fraternity, has occurred at dtaipav .A young woman wept into a nee, and remained in that- condin foal sixty five 'hours. She was .s'een three doctors from New Plymouth, < tbe pricking of needles, had no ict on her*. A't latest advices she had .n removed to the New 'Plymouth jpital, still in a trance, ihe speaker at the meeting.of the fimsforcl Discussion . Society (Lonl) Was Mrs Peniber Reeves, wife of High' Commissioner. The subject the New Zealand Labour Laws, these Mrs Reeves gave a most in«ting exposition, alluding also l to 'beauty and fertility of the counits jgovemment for the people bv people, and' the great possibilties j ; lay before it, .She was asked all s' of questions about New Zealand the laws and customs of the peohe Wellington Education Board supported the*action of the Otago ndi in 'bringing’under the notice hi 'Minister of Education the urgent :ssity of provision .being made in Teachers’ Salaries Act, whereby 10 cent., shall be added to the salaries •jahhers occupying -certain schools uch ou!t of the way place® as have 1 erto failed to attract qualified' tear s, provided teacher's in : such po.fis have certificates equal in grade j hose in similar schools nearer the! m of population. ‘ ' : i

The W'aihi Australian footballers are making active preparations for the coming season. Thie total amount, received in the' Exhibition tea rooms during the season was .£16,771 5s 4d. A woman with 68 convictions, mostly for drunkenness, . died in 'Christchurch the other day a victim .to chronic alcoholism.

‘Tt is well that crime should be punished, but it is better that, the criminal'should be reformed” was the keynote of bis Majesty’s address at the opening of the New Old Bailey prison.

The Boer war added ;£160,000,000 to the National Debt, and lowered the price of Consols from 114 to 85. No wonder, says the ‘Speaker,’ that London’s credit like that of Birmingham andi other towns, fell correspondingly. The war has cost London directly at least £40,000,000 sterling, and indirectly far more. According to the published report issued : by the Agricultural Department) brown and white legjhiom breeds lay the largest number of eggs, gathered from the report of expert poultry breeders. The number of. eggs produced biy two pens of brown and white leghorns, consisting of six birds each, for the twelve months was 1006 and 1026 respectively.