ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43095, 21 May 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Interviewed with regard to the cause of increases in bankruptcy in the Wellington province during the last quarter, one merchant said his own impression was that there is too much extravagance among the working diasses. They got good wages, but they spend too free. l on the totalisaitor and other forms of recreation.

The next Counties’ 'Conference will be held in the Wellington Town Hall, oommencang on Tuesday, July 6th, for the purpose Of considering the Local Government Bill, 1906, and other matters of importance in. connection with Local Government. Remits must reach the secretary of the Counties’ Association by Bth June next. Thames County Council will, we presume, be represented as usual. Ohakune,' which will soon be the head of the southern extension of the Main Trunk line, is extending like a goldmining town during - p rush. The Government cut up allotments in the township about a year ago, and £SO was the average price paid for quarter, acre sections. Shop sites have since grown so desirable that some have changed hands at £350. Sawmi tiers, anticipating good times for their industry, are making Ohakunie a Centre and nio fewer than) six mills have started within six months. Owing to scarcity of liand many business petople have to carry on trade in a tent. During the quarter ended on March 31st the timber sent out from' Kaipara amounted to 6,385,560 ft, of the value ’Of £25,129. The exports to Victoria were valued at £10,428 ; New South Wales, £10.905; and South Australia, £3796. The export of timber from Auckland (including Tbamtes) was 2,485,685 superficial feety valued at £26,657. -The total for the whole colony was 13,424,598 superficial feet, valued at £57,050. During the corresponding quarter of 1906 the export was valued at £61,604. Eleven sailing vessels and thr?e steamers, with crews numbering ITS men, carried the Kaipara shipments. A lady who Was cm her way from Auckland to settle in Wellington, sustained ai serious loss a, few davs ago. ] On arriving at Napier from the North by tone oif the Union Company’s steamers she went ashore to make some small purchases. As she was helping one of the children' back on. to the steamer, the sea, being very rough at the times a reticule which she wa.-cam-in? dropped into the water be

tween, the ship’s side and the end o f the breakwater .and sank before it could be recovered. The ■aocodemt occurred through the cihiaiin of the rerisule snapping! against a, projecting part of the gangway. The lout bar contained thirtv sovereigns, som r silver coin, a bank draft, and some important letters. Our Waihi correspondent writes: ‘Arthur . Humphries, well known in pedestrian circles, met with a painTol accident at Wad-kino. He was w’ork.ng< at the erection of the new ga. c suction plant, and mounted the scaffolding- to a height of 25ft with orn *nd of an iron rail on his shoulder. Hie weight of the rail, added to hi‘ )wn weight, caused the scaffolding flank, to break. Humphries fell on. his

bet on the Concrete floor 25ft below >ut a 6 t 6 plank • came after him md. catching his leg, ripped it badlv afliafipry rnoct. pa.iptn.l iniurv. ,, Hlegarty; from the Auckland of Australian Football, hm Wjpleted arrangements for the la/tche® betweien. Waihi and Auckland n Empire D'ay. The trip will brine r *jy large numiber of people from uokland to the Thames for the daw

nd if is possible that a special feamer may be chartered for the oe mbit Cttose on 50 players are being 'ought-to meet Waihi. One specia 7 atureim Connection with this match that the foofaaill to be used is the id with, which the two .great Mel ’urne teams, 'Carlton and Fitzroy. Rifled the last season's premiership i Melbourne, when over 45,000 spectate watched the Contest. The FitzV Club-hias sent a dozen special ball? a present to the Auckland League. sAjfc the .Education Board meeting ® necessity for increasing the .aoOimmiodatioih at the Kaframgahake ihlool was [brought nip by .Mr Kitoh- & <*f Karangahake, who stated that 0 school was very overcrowded, and large number of children had to be ufht in a siriall ha’ll, which Was irand quite unsuited to 1 its irposes. He asked for an enlargeemt of the Karangahake school, "it s' decided to enlarge the school a * rges^ the chief inspector and > late of the Beard. Dur Aucki' ■correspondent writes under: —‘Tl? '{tiring evidence in an eged wharf pili!^ case at ‘A*uckdi, a witness "^ L . a t it was a nmon occurrence for' pillaged cargo be placed in carters’ a,nd ® the cart to be followed off the attf and. the stuff taken 1 oul‘ winhli the Carter’s knowledge. This fact » sworn to by a numiber of other 'flesses, who also stated that there s a feeling existing on this wharf it an informer ■would have a bad le of it. A sort of reign of terror, nimented.the Magistrate, Mr Kettle, ich trill have to be put an end to.’’ *

The Paeroa; District High School has for the third year running secured first place in .Collins Bros, and Co.’s copybook annual competition. The placed schools were: Paeroa District High School 20, Onehunga District High School 16, Richmond Road School 11. Concerning the barquentine lima, which ran short of provisions on rhe voyage from Thames to Sydney, the

Sydney Daily Telegraph of May 3rd says:—'“The barquentine lima, took a departure from Kopu on April 11, and the Three Kings were passed ‘on the 13th. Thence moderate east to southj east winds prevailed till the 29th, followed by strong north-west to southwest winds, heavy squalls, thunder and lightning, till the 26th. On the 4th inst. a heavy easterly gale was encountered, lasting six hours.” all the means •/ peace, the Hague Conferences, and so on, I still think it rill he a case of the strong man guards his house, remarked Vice-Admiral Fawkes, at Wellington.

Those who are anxious to leave Work as soon as the clock begins to strike are never any good at their jobs. They are the people you will find later in.life declaring there has been a conspiracy against them, to prevent them from: getting on.—Dailv Mirror. &