ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wellington possesses the thirteenth largest organ in the world. There fare' ' ;; 'unemployed ' at San Francisco. . i The first New Zealand Parliament was opened on 'the 27th May, 1854 1 fifty three years ago. Tlie estate of Sir A'. J. Cadman has been for stamp duty at £22,010. The Eling hias granted to Lady Russell, widow of the late Sir William Howard ’Russell, the famous war correspondent, a suit of apartments in Hampton Court. Palace. Last , month 32 Chinese arrived in Wellington, including three, females. The departure® totalled 28. -. In May last year there were 12 arrivals and seven departures. . ; Sugar beet, grown at the Greytown public school, has been tested a.nd found to yield ten per cent of sugar. As the roots average ten pounds'each, this means a pound of sugar to each ropt. ... .• j . .... •; The New Plymouth Borough, Council has accepted a tender of ‘£1979 for the ereotion of a. 1 library, for which Mr Andrew Carnegie has granted £2500.

The townspeople of Hastings donated over £IOO to the Fire Brigade, to be divided among .the members in recognition of the good work done by them in the recent fire.

The Southland, Time® (State® that' it 1 has good authority for saying that ; extensive transfers l are shortly to be made in the Post Telegraph sendee, the number of officials concerned be- , ing mentioned as 300. At a meeting of the Auckland Education Board (Mr George George was authorised to purchase a gtaphophone outfit for speed shorthand purpose® for the Auckland Technical' School, at a. Cost of £SO. A 'Christchurch telegram states that a boy named Crisp was brought to the . hospital suffering from an abscess in his throat. Immediately after his ad-; mission the abscess broke, and the ! boy died iin a few minutes. The men employed on the railway works at Mount Elgmont were unable to work this morning ' owing to the severe weather (says 'Saturday’s Post). The timber is frozen so hard that an adze will not look at it. A contemporary says: “The To Raiu-a-moa (King Country) dairy factory has hiad a most successful season. Suppliers were paid 6£d, for their milk, in addition to which there will be a credit balance of over £100.” other flaxes. At a meeting of bee-keepers at Christchurch it rias 'decided that a Canterbury Bee-keepers’ Association should be'formed, with the object of promoting humane and profitable beekeeping throughout Canterbury and generally in New Zealand. Zadkiel ,in his prognostications for 1907, published in August' last year, forecasted political and physical disturbances jn 74 .degrees E. longitude —the longitude of that part of India now seriously disturbed by seditious 1 natives. ’’ t :