ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43100, 4 June 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! It may interest local bridge enthusf fasts to learn that a law has been en- : acted by the Utah Legislature making i the game of bridge illegal The i penalty is fixed iat. five years’ imprisonment. . At Hampton Lucy, near Warwick, the vicar has just taken over the local public-house. It will be closed every , evening, at nine o’ clock, and will onlv open two hours on Sunday—'from 12 till one at noon and from 8 to 9 p.m. The Komata school has increased so i much fin size lately that the building is too small to accommodate all the 1 scholars attending, and additions are now to be .made. Mr J.. Pickett, formerly a teacher at Waihi, is headmaster.

The cost of supplying tobacco to the inmates of the Benevolent Institution, Dunedin, is said! to be a little under £5 ® week. Mr Sidney Herbert. Godfrey, of London, has again won the Miner Gold Medal and Bar at the international shorthand speed contests at Boston, TJ.'S.A. The contest was open to the world, and the speed was 220 wards per minute. A somewhat exciting incident, took place at a football match at Woodville, when a Maori spectator suddenly rushed into a serum with his uirtr brella waving, and sought to urge his pa,ls or to settle their opponents. Peru, before the conquest of Spain, was a curious example of Socialism. After the Government and priesthood had been paid, all the rest of the money was divided equally among the people. Consequently poverty was regarded 1 as a crime, and those who would not work were allowed to starve** The Hon. Hall-Jones stated recently that apart from the large area of ordinary Crown, lands opened for settlement, close upon 300,000 acres of native land have 'been acquired in Taranaki since 1891. A further large area of native land is now. under negotiation, and, when acquired, will be opened under the optional tenure.. The total area of native land acquired throughout the colony since that date is 2,800,000.