ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43104, 13 June 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Jp a breach of promise case in Mel- ' bourne last week two of the parties Wf&> oyer 60 yearß of age. ■'* man Want, who appeared . onm-judgment summons at the Shore- . ditch County Court. told the judge that Ke had just come out of the hospital after two offerations, that he had only one eye, land could hardly see : with the other, had a' silver tube in'- his throat, was a bad a wife and four children—and no work. M "Friday’s meeting of the Thames Licensiiig Committee the question of the committee’s jurisdiction was mentioned, and the" chairman said that while Committee® could ' not compel the-owners of houses to build a new 'hotel, they had the power, he believed, of declining to grant a license until the hotel in their opinion *was such as to satisfy the requirements ini this connection. "If properly conducted, says the Timaru Tost,’ school gardens may give children an insight into the nature and properties of soils, manures, seeds and rylants. They may even he the means of turning children’s thoughts in the direction of agriculture!, and that 'is most important in a . country like Ours,' which must be regarded as agricultural for, let us hope, all tame. 'The Dunedin Star is now printed by electricity, supplied by the Waibori power. The eight linotype machines are driven by a 3 h.p. British Westingheuse induction motor at 400 volts. To driVe the rotary printing machine a 20 hip. variable-speed induction onlotor has supplied! the place of. a faithful, if overworked, gas engine.

He was ani'Englishman, one of those who fail to see sufficient, with his optics~in their natural state, but must need® wear an eyeglass, “don’t-cher- ■ know.” He was being shown,over Tikitere • “Hell’s Gate.” “Gates of Parar ;| disc,” “King Solomon’s Chair,”- and ' other place® of interest had been pointed out to him byjthe guide; at last the guide said, “And this is Sodom and Gomorrah.” . “Ah,” said, he with the glass, “and what is the j English of that?” Collapse ‘of the' Maori girl who was guiding.—'Hot Lakes Chronicle. The Timaru Herald points out that in 'Argentine decoy sheep, known as Judas Iscariots, are used to lead others into the stock trains. These trucks are loaded at the end, andstock can walk from one end to the other. In a very few minutes a whole \ train is loaded or discharged without the terrible shunting our stock have to put up with iq New Zealand. Sheep are, loaded truck by truck (at the ff/ae) in this country, and every truck has to be moved to make wav for the next. Our contemporary holds that a change is 'badly needed 1 . A postcard received in Blenheim from the Rev. Father Fay, written at Toronto (Canada) says that, owing to the heavy shoWfall, his train arrived 48 hours late. The train was snowed up for 34 hours when two days out Prom Vancouver. “The incident was aOvel,” writer* Father Fay, ibut. not rery interesting. The winter season vas a very severe one—the worst for 25 years; and the train was 7| days >assing through snow, which lay many eet thick. The land is very suitable n many places for agriculture, but he winter 1” In New Zealand, says father Fay, we cannot conceive of the laralhipe of. 1 the Canadian settlers. ! A bobreapondent writes to the Wellington Post-pointing out the dianger icyrred by handling filthy bank notes' n connection with this matter Dr. that about a couple of ears "ago, as the result of a circular here Was a consultation of bank mangers and it was agreed to withdraw ny ‘ note that was obviously dirty, here were' difficulties; they had said, i the way of Completely following ie : exampleof the Bank of 'England—hicb destroys all its notes as they re'- returned' ’to the bank, and issues tesK’ One®—but an' improvement was romised. “There is no doubt,” colt tudedi the Chief Health Officer, “that ank notes feirm a very ready means y which infection is carried. Some f them. are. very filthy.’ Jfefenring) to the question of navies Home writer thus refers to Sir J. -. Ward’s attitude on the subject: The vehement way in. which Sir J. 7ard support® Lord Tweedmouth is ue to the fact that a New Zealand ixiliary navy is an impossible thing, ew Zealand is a prosperous State, at it Has not a large population. New ealandiers have an uneasy feeling iat ; Australia wants to overshadow ew Zealand, and that the growth of il t auxiliary navy, under the control ' the ■“Commonwealth- Parliament, ould .help that overshadowing. This so.' New" Zealand paying a small ibsidy to the British Navy than Aus■aliai, yet T has equal rights in the istribution of - the ship®. New Zeand is' very jealous about her inde■jridepice of Australia. An Australian avy, ...controlling the Western Pacdct, 'would not directly threaten that [dependence. but it would surely out ew Zealand bfi from her present of tfcfo Ifwy/ 1