ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43112, 2 July 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The tender of Maokay and Son for £228 was accepted for additions to the dchool building at Puriri. A prominent settler of Matanjata, ■Mr Killbride, died from the result of injuries received from a kicking horse. The Presbyterians a,t Whangarei are taking active measures to erect a new church building. Mr Ben Tillett, the British Labour leader, is expeicted to arrive in Wellington! at the end of July. Mr William Thompson, a resident of Rotorua, died suddenly. He complained of feeling ill during the night and expired shortly afterwards.

rrn -- death occurred at the Waihi Hospital, after a short illness, of Mr Richard Hancock, late of Thames. Deceased was 66 years of age. For the period ending 15th June, the Grand Junction battery, running 24, days ,2906 tons of ore were treated for a. return of bullion worth £6528 14s Bd, making the grand total to date (£49,232 15s 3d. A resident of Napier has instructed the local Gas Company to supply a hundredweight of coal to every person certified! by the Mayor or a clergyman as being in necessitous circumstances. The orders had to be presented on the shortest. da.y of the year (21st June).

They cannot both have it, and Hamilton and Cambridge are to “fight to a finish/’ as one of the school chairman put it, for the possession of the agricultural school for the Waikato. Hamilton claims it as the railway centre, Cambridge demands it, as the agricultural centra 'Mr Greenslade thinks that as the experimental farm is near Hamilton that is the proper place for the school. The acuteness of the domestic, servant problem is evidenced by the following tempting advertisement which appeared in a recent issue of the Wellington Post: “Wanted, at once, in small family (3), ladyhelp; no children, no cooking, washing, or cleaning, other help- kept, every Sunday and every other evening off, close to’(centre town, salary 125.” Our Waihi correspondent writes:

A very pretty wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church yesterday morning. the contracting parties being Mir W. E. Robert®. second son, of Mr T. 'Roberts;, Henderson, Auckland, and Miss, Zilla Pennell, youngest daughter of Mir R, Pennell, of !Karangahake Plie bride was given away by her brother, and looked charming in ; a dress of white s : lk. trimmed with silk lade and chiffon-, and wearing /the orthodox wreath and veil. The bride- w&,« attended by her niece, Miss -Brown, who wore a pretty pale pink silk. Mis© J. Brown, pretty cream fcashmere ; and Wardie Hays, cream cash mere. The bridegroom was attended by MriLaurie as best man, bis brother being groomsman.

The need for an infectious diseases hospital at Dunedin was; illustrated last week by the refusal to admit several cases of erysipelas into the general hospital, and the expulsion of p w o patient© ip whom the disease had declared i&elf, aind there was no proper, place to which t-o send them. At the Auckland Police Court F. Winstone was fined-,£l and 47s cost.® for breaches of the Stamps Act. If cannot be too widely known,” said Mi iTyer, S.ML, “that the proper and effective way to cancel a stamp is to Ejlatee on .it the initials snd true date, ff this 1 w a© realised by business men, hese cases' would not- occur.”

At the Waihi Police Court Arthur -orringham was charged with, “That >eing the occupier Cf Z "li?" within he meaning of the Shops and Offices let, 1904, and it© amendment, 1905, ie did employ three assistants, named irthur Laipb, John Saunders, and ’’rederick Richardson, in connection nth the business of bis ©hop, more -ham half-an-hour of the presictribed ime of closing: Corringham stated hat Saunders had left at ten minutes ast nine, and hi© people had sent im back to pay their monthly nocunt. The Second boy (Lamb) had een in the refreshment rooms near y ? gnd he hgd merely looked in to 30 whether he should turn the horses i them for the following day. Hth regard to Richardson, he would lead guilty, though the circumstanes were extenuating. -He had paid vertdme. His Worship imposed a ne of 5s with costs, making 25s in--11. Addressing the constituent© at Core ie. Hon. R. McNab said that edueaion, hospital and 1 charitable aid, and Id age -pensions- were items of expeniture from the Treasury that were 10-unting up Considerably year by Sar. For instance, -the expenditure in rmnedtion with the ■ school cadets came nder the education vote, as also did ie whole of the technical expenditire they were piling up under eduation item's that in past yea-re no erson. ever dreamed would be ineluddin that category. Remembering iese things, and also what had been one in the way of free education, he id hesitate to say that the next 'arhament would not close withoixt assing ai vote of one million sterling zx sSuecHou a%oa&.