ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 11 July 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Last .year the Unionists in New Zealand increased by six thousand. A -temporary water supply is to be installed at Waikino. It- has been estimated ‘there are at least 30,000 unemployed in the two New South Wales and Victoria.

' A yopng lady ■in -’Miasterton had a. narrow escape from ; being Choked the other evening, by martially swallowing a pearrifle bullet in some cake she was having at tea.

At Waihi the head slaughterman at the abattoirs- is to receive £3 per week- and freehbuse, while the second slaughterman is to get £3 per week. The Salvation Army’s Christchurch corps- has lately purchased a set of brass • instruments at a cost of £2-80. The instruments were made by the Salvation Army. At the Nelson Police Court-, ' two fruiterers—one a Chinaman—were charged with selling specked oranges. They 'were; convicted and ordered to come np for sentence when called upon.

Tlh.© recent compensation case Waihi Doily Telegraph, v. Waihi Borough Council, in -which judgment was'given, for plaintiffs, cost the local body -£506 10s. The verdict was for £4 : 50, while the costs amounted, to £56 10a The Paeroal r Band is practising for the Thames Band Contest. Says the local ..paper. “The members of the Town Band want uniforms. They will need tio look as smart as other 'bands ait the contest at Thames, or people will say Paeroa. does not nipnort its band properly.” 1 At the meeting of .the Waihi Fire brigade Cap 4. W. Brown handed in us resignation, aifter a term, of office

extending over seven years. The resigTifltiom Was received with regret, and 'breman 'MalcolmSon. 1 was elected cap<tin in succession to Mr Brown, Mr V 'Roberts being elected foreman.— Own correspondent.) Actinomycosis- has 'been declared an' rfeotious disease in New Zealand, 'his is am (infectious contagious disise of cattle and man, due to. the resence of an organism, presumably fungus, each being a round or elonited hollow body filled with a. dense -ngled mass of slender much-branched amenta.

In his opening l address, at the Farms’ Conference, Wellington), Mr Wilson selared {that the milking machine was w past the experimental stage. He snt on to say that the colony was t a long /way' behind in the yield of ilk that should" he expected. to say this is taken from American paper: “A three-year-old y cilimlbedi unseen the cow catcher of locomotive which was taking in teg at Caiman, .Iowa:, and rode 10 les, at theirate of 50 miles an hour, ore he w l as discovered. Then the ■le chap was taken off laughing and wing.” °

Wax cultivation, which, without a nbt, will become a leading industry ■New: is steadily growing, is stated that around Stratford ranaki province), the utilisation of mp lands has assumed definite pe. Several settlers there have put respectively, -from 50 to 150 ‘s, and they consider it will prove re profitable than any other crop. 1/ mill can be got to start in the Hot, flax land, it is estimated, will forth from £5 to £lO per acre, f the Ohinemuri County. Council ting 'tome discussion took' place I day and contract labour. A reI showed-4h v at the expenditure on I during April, and May, 1906, f* khe maintenance contract sys- ■ was r r P er! °d during 1907 the expenr ™der ■tik o day labour system F 7 . 6d. Members Were diviF 1 the respective merits' and de|S: and no steps were taken; in the

don t want to blow about this hr, but I would like to quietly ut where it is a milder and, I better climate,” writes an inPonoka. Alberta, Canada, \ tourist Department. He states p y® 2° 00 dollars to “bring to kEiland as soon as he - learns hhe -prospect®. Like many other he is anxious to fhether- M ew Zealand is plagued and so on. IWaihi correspondent writesr was solemnised I Waihi, between Mr fnnd-?haw, of the assay defc 1 *? battery, • and • Miss frtdeHMgjms, only daughter of »e;,Mr Henry Ho’dgins, “Carterfeorayapa. . The bride looked [n white silk, the. trained Icing arranged with box-pleated llaborated 1 with French knots ; thee was; finished with transit o*® 0 *® and, lovely silk embroidA beautiful em®ranged: xvrith a ■ orange blossoms enveloped the earned #.-lovely white ■bonquefc, .the : gift of the hrideI tj® v 'kride was -attended -bv ■ sjstier' of - the briae■andr; hlis.ees May-Smith ■ and ■ and; a;jatte. tot:(Jbyce) niece The Rev. Father RttnmjafedT tflg# ceremony..-