ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43093, 16 May 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On the Hunter River Ford defeated Fred Hempton, an ex-champion, by a sued prescribing the following amendlength after an excellent race. The biggest trust on .earth is the country newspaper. Tit trusts everybody, gets cussed for 1 trusting, mistrusted for cussing, and if it busts for trusting, gets cussed for busting. The Magistrate stated in Court at Waitara the other day that an agent or servant had the: samet power as the licensee when ordering obnoxious persons to 1 leave licensed premise. AI young man named Max, of Nelson, met with ai serious accident while working a chaff cutter. The sleeve of his short got caught and an aim was almost dragged into the machinery, the flesh being stripped from the limb. “They have not got. a good paper in Wellington, bub they are going to have one,” said Mir Massey during the course of his speech at P'atea. the other evening. Which is very unkind of iM3r Massey. But then the Wellington papers are not rabid Opposition journals. Perhaps this accounts for the denunciation 1 AI plasterer and his labourers, for working; at the Grand Hotel, Palmerston North, on a recent Sunday, were fined 15s and 10s, with. 7s costs each, for following: their trade on. Sunday. Counsel pointed out that under the award of the Arbitration Court thev were permitted to work on Sundays, provided they received double wages, which thev did.

After his wife had given evidence in the charge of murder against him, Harry K. Thaw was exultant. He scrawled in gigantic letters on a. sheet of foolscap: r< My wife’s success is astonishing considering the number of blackguards who pitted thieir intellects against hler veracity.” This composition the prisoner held high that the reporters might read it. Bishop Julius, of Christchurch, speaking at ihle welcome to delegates in oommetationl With the Wamieml’k Christian. Temperance Union Convention, told a, good anecdote against himself. When he made 'his first temperance speech in Elngland over 30 yetars ago the Bishop said h!ei was very thin, and very nervous. He began by saying that he had been a total abstainer for two years on which an old ladv ini the audience observed audibly, 7 T±!b;! poor dear, and he looks like it (toot”

It is stated that the ReV. J. L. P'attullo, who recently received a call to the Presbyterian Church at Whangared, has accepted same. Mir Barry Coney, the popular Auckland baritone, and formerly of the Thames, has retired from the service of thie Bank of New Zealand, and is proceeding to London' in Juily, for the purpose of some years’ further study of the pianoforte and singing, before entering the musical profession. Mr Coney was presented by his fellow officers with valuable mementoes. His many friends at Thames will wish him every success in his future career.

We understand that it is the intention of the Railway authorities to in future enforce the regulation prohibiting smoking on railway platforms. The regulation has always been in existence), but has not been put in force. The’ authorities, however, are now enforcing the regulation and at Wellington several offenders are to be brought before the Court. This paragraph) may therefore serve as a Warning that smoking on the platforms is prohibited and anyone contravening the rules is liable to be prosecuted. The Hon. J. McGowan has approved the recommendation made by the Coromandel County Council for a final subsidy of £l3 to enable Mr Carlo Blanch and mate to prospect the main Tokatea Range, near Ken- 1 nedvh Bay, for a period of three i months.