ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43090, 9 May 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

_ The Cambridge Borough Ooueil has cided to take a poll of the ratepayers on the proposal to raise a loan of £>2500 for the erection of a horse bazaar.

Our Auckland correspondent telegraphs: ‘The flax graded at Auckland in April wais 6290 bales of the value of ,£27,00, an increase on April last year of 314- tons.” Our Waihi correspondent writes: ‘While several boys were playing with a truck near the Martha, battery a. lad named David D ancle wet with a, very painful accident. It appears that the boy was in the act of applying the brake when the wheel eauight his foot

and cut a terrible gash just below the ajpjklei. He was attended 1 ;by Dr. Claridlge, wbo> put several stitches in the wound.’ A correspondent from Waitara writes to the Taranaki News:—The peculiar case of a girl who has been in a

trance for over 6'5 hours is attracting some attention hem Three medical fm'&n who have attended her have endeavoured to arouSc her, but without avail. She was admitted into the New Plymouth hospital on Tuesday morning. While at Thames Mr Frank La,wry, MIH.R., for Parnell, caused considerable amusement by stating that, he

and Mir Herries were the two most devotional members in the House. He su'-'-'orted his contention; by saying that, when they were standing in the lobby and the bell Was rung. Mr Herries would say ‘Come oni Frank and let us pray.’ Ah adjournment would

then be made to Bellamy's'. Last week (says the Bay of Plenty Times of Monday), Mir T. El Price, of this town proceeded to Auckland to meet iMir John, Hessey, the representative of a powerful financial syndicate.

which is prepared, if assays are satisfactory, to purchase' the Te Puke Gob 1 Beef property. Mr Hessey has seemed an option over the mine, and pro ceeds to Te Puke this week with oncor two experts to test the property. . If the assays are up to requirements, the freehold will at once be purchaser’ and a large battery and the necessary machinery erected to fully develop threefs.

An animated discussion took plae at the meeting for the election of th s chool comm ittee for Te Aro, Well in o ton, on, the cadet movement. Oni householder said it was a, crime P ■teach hoys the rudiments of warfare and besides, it cost a o-ood deal o money that could be better applied Others said that hoys should b taught to defend their country, tha it was good discipline in the school thajb if, had a good effect on the bovs Another objector said it made tbr boys automatic, waiting for a word o' command, unable to think for them selves.

Our Waikato correspondent, write as under:—-‘‘Mass Lllv A„ Aubin teacher of the Tauwhiare School, win is leaving on a trip to England a,Tithe Continent was entertained bv th settlers at a social and dance. Tin chairman of th© School Committer Mr John Guest, presided, and flier was a large attendance. On behalf o' the residents the chairman presente-' tha guest of the evening with a, go l, watch, and on behalf of the sehoP pupils with a, gold chain and pendant During the evening musical itemcontributed by Miss Miller, Messrs G Woolley, J. McKinnon, A,. Ramsay and W. D arrow, and a. duet by Mis---Efyre and] !Mr Bridgman.” Mr F. (Ml. B. Fisher, M.H.R., ad dressing a meeting ».+, the Salvatior Army Citadel, Wellington, remarked that be believed there was an opportunity for life-long work in that citv foe- the first pubkc man who would

come out into the open,, ally himsel ■ with the Salvation Army or some other reforming organisation, and ‘try to get at the degradation that exists here.” He found that, this degrada-

tion existed because laws were defec tive. The iCity Council had not the

powers that municipal bodies at Home possessed. iHe was going to try if he could induce the City Council to bring about legislation, enabling municipal councils to deal with this state of affairs.