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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43106, 18 June 1907, Page 4

Last month butter to the value of £107,208 was sent out of the colony. Lionel Terry has been, removed from Lyttelton Gaol to Seaoliff Mental Diseases Hospital. A number of Thames amateurs are rehearsing “Trial by Jury,” which it it is intended to stage at an early date. After a. successful endeavour at the Supreme Court at Wanganui to get the parties in -ai case—-a family dispute—to come to a mutual agreement, instead of awaiting a judicial decision, Mr Justice Cooper urged on them the desirability of shaking hands, and becoming on good terms again, “for,” he added, “friendship is worth more, after all, than the money in dispute.

The Philatelic/ /-tnmp-oollectors) Society of New Zealand, whose headquarters are in Wellington, has 104 members. Last year the headquarters exchange branch received 355 sheets, containing 12,070 stamps, valued at i £lBlO 11s 3d, for circulation amongst I members, who selected stamps valued at £4BB 5s lOd. i Bush lands are being taken up in considerable areas in the Ohakune district by sawmillers. A correspondent writing in the Taihape Post states I that some gentlemen from Lower Hutt were up last week looking at a block of 3000 acres. They have secured this from the natives for milling purposes, and they state they never saw such fine bush, before. This is the best forest, the correspondent believes, in New Zealand, and easy to get through, as there are no supplejacks or lawyers in the undergrowth.