ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43094, 18 May 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dunedin is agitating strongly for a hospital for incurables. At the "Wee Waa Police dourt (New South Wales) »on April 27th, John Goodyer was fined £2O per head for selling nine diseased cattle by public auction to the local butcher. The latest phase of the liquor problem in Invercargill is the decision of Messrs Roope and 00., local brewers, to erect a brewing plant and bottling •store at Waihopai, where the present depots am The law seemingly gives permission to a, brewer to sell beer in bottles at his bottling store, ‘which store shall not be situated on his brewery premises, but which shall be situated within the licensing district in which his brew'ery 'is situate.” The present brewery is in the prohibited district of Invercargill, and beer may I not bet bottled there and sold in any { other electorate. It may be sold only in stamped casks containing not less than two' gallons. The people of Carterton whose businesses combine both shop and factory have submitted to Mr Hornsby, M.H.R., for presentation to the Government., a . petition • protesting against the recent intimation to close factories on 'Saturday afternoons, which entails closing one section of the premises on Saturday, and the other on. Thursday. Letters appealing for assistance

were recently sent by the secretary

the Shin-wreck Relief Society (Mr , E. Grace) to many of the Harbour Boards of .New Zealand. Replies received from these- bodies were read at a. recent meeting. There was onlv one refusal. This w.n* from the Auckland Board, who intimated that, tli.n cox' ild not see their wayvto contribute anything .to the society’s funds. “Strange,” remarked one gentleman, “whiat short memories the people of Auckland have.” ‘“Yes,” .-commented Mr Bullock, “we have spent more money in Auckland than in any otherprovince.” With regard to the project of sending a team of New Zealand footballers "to. England to play the 'Northern unions next season, it is stalerl at Wellington that such a movement ha.s been on the tapis ever since the “All Blacks” returned from their victorious career. A Wellington syndicate, aided by two moneyed men in other parte of the colony, has, it is stated, announced its willingness to put up £IO,OOO to brine- about the trip, provided a first-class .combination can be got together. The tour of the Besses o’ th’ Barn Band, which has been under the control of MSessrs J. and N. Tait, has been, a great financial success. The takings have, everywhere exceeded -expectations, and it is stated on the best authority that the net nrofits amount to over £IO,OOO. Messrs Tail are considering the question of sending the bamd to the Far East, and then to South Africa, in preference to taking them Home by way o-f Canada. Under the contract entered into at Home the conductor (Mr Owen) receives a salary of £35 a week, and the average weekly salary of each of the musicians is about £5.

In, connection with the reprimand order issued iby the Officer commandingl the District regarding miscondm.t by South Canterbury Volunteers on their way to the Easter camp, it is pointed out that the pranks referred to had the effect of minimising ihe «r~£tiveness of the collision in -the Volunteer train was involThedr mischievousness delay■-d the train a few minutes at Rafcaia Had it not done so*, the trains would have met -further north after the Volunteer t-ratin had got u(p speed after crossing the bridge and before the Ashburton train had begun to slow down on approaching the bridge. Thus out of evil good has arisen! ■ A correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times/” 7 describing a recent visit to the prison camp- at Waiotapu, says <c over 1770 acres -are now- planted.

comprising since the commencement, five years aged, rhor'e than 4,500,000 trees. These are chiefly larch, Austrian pine and eucalypti, selected, of course, for their timber value.

Twelve months had passed since my last visit, and I was amazed' to see the growth the trees had made. hr ten years, I should judge, thousands of them will fbe ready for the saw. Here is one solution of what to do with our waste lands. Plant’ them Here are thousands of acres that would not carry a quarter of a- sheen to the acre, but planted they will, ' cfore many years have passed, bring in a handsome revenue. And the same is true of some other .land in the colony. It is of no use for agriteulture, and not much for. grazing, but planted with suitable trees it ’would eventually return a handsomeprofit on the labour ’expended. In of the rapid disappearance oi olir ‘ timber trees, this- is -a, matter of greatpractical importance. As regards labour employed, there, are generally eighty prisoners in camp, whose total roost to the countrv last year was £-2600. How much] better is than working a treadmill or picking oakum. And the Work is done arm'd the healthful, humanising influences 0$ the open '-V: • -4

A! State coal depot is 'being opened at Wanganui. v . The disease known, as -hydatids has been declared to be an Infectious disease. Stated, that a prospecting party from the Thames- will soon be equipped, •the object being.bo carefully examine the district east of Thames to the coast. It; is hoped . that the results may he satisfactory and that they will be such as to- warrant expenditure on development work in’ this practically unprospected portion "of the district.' “The Mountain has been in Labour and has brought forth- a Mouse-—the New Zealand School Journal. ■ We hope the Hon. “George Fowlds” will take it away and slay if.” A Southera contemporary after receipt of the School Journal.

I The District Court sits next. Tuesday. | Aimong the applications is- one by | Patrick K. Donnelly, who'was recently evicted from the Waiofnlii Co’s property, and who applies for a rehearing. The sum of £2O has been deposited with the. .Court in cionnecr tion -with the application and 1 for which, a. number of summonses 'to witnesses have been issued. The visit'- of the Prince and Priness of Wales to India cost Great" Britain approximately £56,583-, on' the navy account, in addition to the special service vote of £20,000.