ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43103, 11 June 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Dunedin Star says: —“Am l old and faithful officer in, Detective Cooney, who has done good work in this city for thle past 17 years or more, has, on account of ill-health, 'been transferred to Thames, where his comrades hope the tohiange of climate will bring him back to his former self. An unhappy chronicler, sketched Sir Joseph Ward im am English paper, during the Imperial Conference, as ‘a typical Englishman, in appearance and .manner.” Sir Joseph is a Victorian, born of Irish parents, and reared mostly Tn (New Zealand. Aind hie emerges an Englishman! Our Rotorua, correspondent states that the attendance at the public school dearly indicated that many of the children, are still suffering from measles, 'and unable, to attend school, while i other members of the family are also kept at home on account of the epidemic. The attendance is still far from satisfactory.” <> At the last meeting of the Waikato Rugby Union the secretary was instructed to 'Write tojthie Thames, Goldfields. and Rotorua Unions, asking if theyii could visit Waikato this season, and ako to the Auckland Union, asking if' they would send a . team to Waikato . after the present month, a return match to be played' at Auckland' later, invthe season. . Our Afucfldand correspondent tele-graphs:—-“It was unofficially announced a week or two ago that as the outcome of thei investigations recently made in regard to the Auckland) Oyster fisheries by the Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for Marine) ai portion of-the Pomui Island beds would be opened this season. Official confirmation Of this is contained in a telegram received by the Collector of Customs, Auckland (Mr J. Mills), from the Marine'Department at Wellington. The message states that “That part of Pomui Island on the western side of a line drawn from' Ponui Lighthouse to Chamberlain’s Wharf at the northern end of the island” is to be opened The Opening of these beds l is expected to attract a large number of pickers.” The oase of a young man, of Ohiaruhe, Carterton, attacked by actinomycosis, is said by veterinarians to be the first in which a man has contracted the disease in New Zealand. Teal is a farm labourer, and it is supposed he 'became infected from cattle So far there are only two cases 1 on record in which a man has contracted the disease by direct infection from cattle. These diseases are recorded by the scientist® Steizner and Hooker, and in each of them, the subject was a man in charge of cattle suffering from actinomycosis, the tumors of

which were suppurating l . The disease is of ;a fungoid* nature, and probably , 'gains entrance to the system through " the medium of wounds or abrasions In the ease -of this mam the growth is perceptible 'xn the neck, and herhas been conveyed to Carterton, where he is being attended by Dr. Bey. Ain operation will be necessary to remove the growth, and the wound will then be jtreated by iodide of potassium, which is much used in these oases by veterinarian®.—Exchange. (A* Hamilton correspondent, writes: "There is an individual in this town whose. behaviour, if not changed ,wi]l land -him in the Court on a charge of manslaughter. Several times he has .. been the cause of much discord and confusion. He was riding up Victoria street on a motor. ‘bicycle, startling t#o hlorßes. attached to vehicles, etand'i% outside, Messrs Davis and. Co.’s I auction mart. The two vehicles beI came locked,. frightening the animals I still more. Cne of them fortunately I cpptrolled by a lady, but the I other, belonging to Mir Bishop of Te I Raps, got careering towards the I railway. Just as the crossing was I reached, the . afternoon goods train I from -Morrinsville dashed over the I street, .the horse managing- to swerve I sufficiently to escape collision. Its I new direction brought it in contact I with one of the railway yard posts, I with the natural consequence that the I buggy -was smashed. A element of I tragedy was missed only by a narrow I margin; for a young girl stood a. few I yards away, apparently dazed. But I this was not the. only lucky incident, I for vcontinuing its course with .the I shaft® dangling fat its side, : the run- ■ away brought up full tilt against anr I other ‘horse tied to the fence, fortun- ■ ately striking it in stUrih a manner that I terminated . its flight.” I A Greymouth telegram says:—An ■ old aged pensioner named William ■ Levie died- at the Hospital under mys- ■ terioqs ; circulmstances. He was found I lying on Cobdeni Road unconscious, ■ and taken to the hospital, where he ■ died yAt the .inquest evidence was ■ given by the-doctors 1 who made the ■ postmortem < examination that death B had resulted from a fractured skull, ■ and- the injuries could not have 'been H inflicted by a fall, but were probably ■ due. -to. deceased.being struck on, the ■ head. After- a brief retirement the ■ jury returned a verdict that fche.de- ■ ceased camieto hi® death by the frao H ture M : has- skull, but how the injury Hw*S' caused; the jury could,' not say ■from the evidence before them;