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The ’biggest tin mine in the world is atr Doleoath, Cornwall. It produces £200,000 worth of mineral per annum. The Government cannot see its way to make a grant to hospitals towards the cost of treating indigent Maoris. Telephone subscribers on March 31st in the four cities numbered as follows: —Auckland 23-24, Wellington 2706, Christchurch 2162 and Dunedin 1995. The Paeroa paper says there might be more in tire suggestion to make the Piako plains part, of the national endowment than some people think. It wouldn’t be altogether a bad idea either.
Waihi return is a record —£64,320. The total output to date is £5,84'6,967.
Herrings have been stranded on the beach at jPicton in such quantities recently that if allowed to remain they are likely to become a nuisance.. It lias been decided to engage a motor launch and clear the beach. After -considerable opposition on the part of the Korean; Court the new Japanese-Korean Convention has been signed placing Korean administration under the guidance of the Japanese Resident-General, who is authorised to appoint his nominees to all responsible positions. A petition is in circulation among the boot and shoe salesmen and importers of Waikato, to be presented to Parliament, protesting against the proposed revision of the tariff , upon boots and shoes.
“Nine-tenths of the Maori children are nourished, or attempted to he nourished on condensed milk and Neave-’s food,” stated the member for the Eastern Maori district. It Is estimated that owing to the drought between 4000 and 5000 bead of cattle have been -sent- out of the North Otago district or potted. There is considerable mortality due to want of feed.
In consequence of the poor rainfall in Central Otago, sheep are being carried to Southland, where feed is plentiful, at orcTinary charges, but if the stock should be returned, no railage will be levied.
It is intended to set apart a room in the new buildings being erected at the Ruakura Experimental Farm, in the Waikato, in which to teach the sons and daughters of farmers in the district how to test and keep milking records.
The Goldfields Committee reports that it has no recommendation to make regarding the petition of Mr Alexander iMadkay, of Paeroa, for -a reward for the discovery of goldfields at Thames and Karangahake. “The (Auckland post office,” says the. Premier, “is the best in New Zear land, without exception, so far as the interior is (concerned.” Our Paeroa correspondent writes: ‘The Paeroa railway station is to. he still further enlarged. Paeroa is becoming a 'busy railway junction-. Repairs are being made by some of the Railway Department’s staff to the engine shed at Paeroa. The; corrugated iron on the shed had been, completely eaten away by the fumes from the coal, and the roof is now being covered with rubberoid.” A' girl, while washing -clothes at Midhirst, had the misfortune to run a needle through the palm- of her hand. The needle had been left! in an article in the wash, and the whole of it became imbedded in her hand. Fortunately a thread attached to the needle enabled it to be withdrawn, but not without medical aid. A remarkable case of self-h—■motism is puzzling the doctors ati Worcester, Massachusetts;. Some time ago a well-known resident (Mr A. H. Stimson) brought himself, under a hypnotic spell, and the physicians have been unable to restore him to consciousness. Mr Stain son read of a man who stated that lie livnnotised himself, and in spirit toured round Europe. He determined to imitate the writer, and fell into m static of catalepsy as the result. The doctors fear he will die without: -their being able to rouse him.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43119, 1 August 1907, Page 4
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