ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43118, 30 July 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Waihi Grand- Junction have crushed 3559 tons' of ore for a return of . bullion valued at £6300. The total butput'is-now £55,532 14s 9d. It is expected that by March next 6&ly five or six miles of the Main A -Trunk Railway will remain uncom- . pleted. Ait the Gisborne Police Court Geo. it Madkie, for supplying liquor to a prohibited person, was fined £5 and costs. • Cables states that Webb, the New Zealand sculler, is showing l improved /•. form. He will be' honored if he brino-s -bacit •to New Zealand the title of , champion sculler of the world. Victoria is waving its arms ent-hus-lastically' because the prison records show a decided 1 increase. New South . Wales. should now seek to eclipse its rival in this detail. A' family at Gisborne were affected by ptomaine, poisoning through eat:mg tinned, herrings. After medical at- * tentaon all the patients were out of danger. ' • An interesting dinner at which the menu was composed of New Zealand lood products, was given in Paris recently. The idea originated with Mr ' A - 'Cilruth, New Zealand Govern- ' /■" Blent- bacteriologist.

u A Waihi. resident lost his favorite .■horse,..and was subsequently informed that it had been seen cavortino- round with a kerosene tin - tied to its tail. IVemty pounds reward now offered f 4or conviction of the miscreant. Oa M«* 31st last 18 locomotives, 11J . s°«je 15 bogie brake-vans, and 988 waggons were under construction in the railway workshops of the colony; Price Bros, Thames, are budding 20 locomotives in addition Altogether, there are 38 new locomotives in, hand. A. new method of labelling bales at naix and putting on the graders' .marks is /being introduced by the ‘h 7 tura l Department. Flaxmillere wdl be required to insert m the middle of every, bale a tag made of tin. stamped with their own brand, and connected hr means of a piece of stout wire with a leather tag similarV stamped, on the outside of the ae. The grader will impress his mark on this, and it. will then be .practically impossible to exchange the marks, a, practice which is temptingly easv with the present svstem of grad or S ’ f, nj n- s made of parchment and tied ta the outside of the bale with strhm xlhe hew device is to be compulsory from September Ist.

“The Bill is going along all right,” said Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer when questioned about, the progress . of the Pure Food Bill through' the • House, of Representatives. “Everyone/ he added, -“recognises the necessity o' haring an Act. to ensure the purity o' people’s food, and although the . onticasms of the RiP have been many / tio . : one - has suggested that the Bill •while it conserves the interests ,of ; the man who eats the food, is unfair to the importer or vendor.” - Trunk line was authoriserl to^f.'nf 885 ' The >tal exoenditmo ■lO 61st March Insfi ,vas £2,142 978 an average expenditure of £9? 4OS • per. annum. In 1905, £200,000 Va> .. spenty and last year £420,000. The • raid heads are now twenty - emhi -miles apart. In three months'that will - • ™^ dto twenty four miles. EaiH in the New Year ten miles would remain to he completed, and b- the Ai° ;Se ?/- the summer ’ dyen fine wea- ' 'yi Gr, .'J ,!S s i hou]d ''be reduced to four ■l?®#? train should, saw V ; f, tindA’*-Sporetary to the Y o-k'- TTe.nartjnent. rm for cerfrun in 1908. • It i? notified in the Australian pan- - <&s Ahat m future the actual weight of the contents of all tins containing goods for South Afrfea must be clear Iv marked on the labels attached to chose goods. This is the effect of a new and important regulation, issued, under the Commerce Act, by the Acting Controller-General of Customs, information was received a week or two -ago hy the Federal Government mat - under- the Sbuth African Cus--^Y 19 Vnfon Convention and'- Tariff, -tins, pars, and other receptacles of -reputed weight are deemed to be ot less than such weight, and duty is ; charged thereon, unless the actual net weight of the contents of suioh containers is printed in a conspicuous manner on that part of the affixed label which is usually presented to the public, and unless the net weight is also embossed on the top of the con tamer.”

yg' / a " ua g » nan named Edward Hooker left Motueka for Nelson, a distance of 16 miles open sea, -in. a small sailing boat, and was not ■ seen again. On June 19 th, savs the Nelson Evening Mail, a young man picked up a skull, thigh bones and pens bone on the beach and also. part ,°f a sail,' about two chains fhom where an oar, supposed to belong to the missing 'boat, was found soon after the adcident. Medical examination -has since shown the hones to be . toe of a man of about sixty years and about six feet high. As tVo ß^ g n/Ji? he l g ¥ 001Te spond' with fp man it is supposedl the >bones found ore his rc-maicSf