ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 4 July 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are now upwards of thirty shops' in Ohakune, on the Main Trunk line, , and more in the course of election.

The postponed match between the Huia Girls’ Hockey Club and the Karangahaka Club .is to be played at the latter place next Saturday. At petition in favor of the Saturday half-holiday is to be put in circulation by the Wellington Trades Council. v

A section of land in Wellington which) was bought, two years ago for £6IOO, Was sold recently for £9500. The Hon. G Eowlds, the Minister for Education, speaking at Gore, said that the next. Parliament, would pass a vote of one million sterling for education alone.

At . several of the Churches in Timaru on Sunday sermons against gambling were delivered, and the congregations were invited to sign petitions which, were being circulated, asking Parliament for the abolition of the totalisator.

A shocking accident befell William ~ Milford, aged about eighteen, at the Wellington Biscuit Factory. He was engaged at one of the machines, when he 'became entangled in the belting, and was hauled up to the shafting. One of his legs was pulled off below the knee. ~ Mr V. G. Day, S.M., in commenting at the Ohristchur'ch Magistrate’s Court on a case of a theft of a pair of boots, said the practice of displaying goods in front of shops was a very risky one. In England magistrates very often refused to convict persons on charges such as the one in question, as the shopkeepers were largely to blame in placing, temptation in the wav of passers-by. The Utile Spanish' Prince who was born last month has been given the names of lAlfonso, Pio, Christine, Eduardo, Fr&lnlcisoo, Guallelmo, Carlos, Enrique, Eugenio, Fernando, Antonino, and Yenancior. Poor little chap; what has he done to deserve 1 this?

The other jida.y the six-year-old danghtewof Mr Thomas, of Te Matai, had two of the fingers of her right band severely injured by another child accidentally cutting them with a tomahawk. The little sufferer was brought to Tauranga when Dr. FrazerHurst found it necessary to amputate the two fingers. Our Waihi correspondent writes: “A young man named Franks, who was admitted as an urgent case to the Waihi Hospital on ‘Thursday, died the next moaning from peritonitis. He was twenty years of age, and was of gn unassuming and winning disposition. He was a, member of the Primitive Methodist Young Men’s Club, and -had recently joined the choir of that church. Mr Franks was ai native of Thames, and we understand the obsequies will be conducted there.” We note that a peculiar position has arisen in connection with the No 1 Ohinemuri Rifles, The present strength of the company is 85 members, but under the Defence Department regulations capitation is only paid on 63. It appears that the peace strength of a company is three officers and 60 men; the war strength is three officers and 100 men. Consequently, the capitation allowance is only paid for 63 members. On the. face of 4 it certainly seems hard that, if w company strengthens itself over 63 members that no grant is received for thosg-m. excess of the maximum number on' a peace footing. At the meeting at Paeroa regarding the silting of the Ohinemuri Rivea°

when it was decided to send delegated to Wellington, Mr ,'Oololough said that me Hon. Millar had told him that the farmers were not going, to be allowed to ibe smothered by a temporary mane, tney would get every reasonable support from Mr Millar. The Chairman said they would also get support from «K e j? on j», MoNa ‘ h ’ but tlie 'biggest bugbear* was “Jimmy” McGowan If «toy sent two delegates to Wellington ho believed they would get somethin. f?? 6 ’ T would bnve to get. some* •ttrnng done now, or the next big fresh tvould tum them all out of the place. 'UST****** is assumi ”£ a teght outlook m some parte of CenThe hills surrounding Alexandra are pegged off for miles and th o antimony, cinnabar, and quartz areas are all ai> plied for, and there seems every pros- ” f¥ 7 "7 11 P 8 * 07 © payable. The late Sir John Hall’s memory should ever be kept? green by the w 1 • ZeaJand ’ as ifc ™ maiZ through fas instrumentality that they W admitted to the franchise. It tas • S 1893 that amendment to the Electoral Act. 18 93 t n the effect' that the word >Ln” whenever it occurred throughout the Act should include “women,” and that the words and expressions in the Act importing the masculine gender • should.include women, except "when -otherwise expressly stated, was passed. That amendment and other consequential changes in the Act; practically admitted women to the franchise, and the Act so amended came into forco on September IJffh, 1893, l