ITEMS OF INTEREST

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43211, 6 August 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Iquique, in Peru, has never had rain. At -Invercargill, a lad, named Chas. Mayhen, 14 .years, died from bloodpoisoning through running a nail in his foot. ' The amount subscribed to date for a memorial on Matsland Hill to the soldiers who fell during the Taranaki Maori war is £250. The Wailii Miners’ Union has proved of great benefit to the workers. In the last year close on £9OO has been paid for accidents to members. Mr Carruthers states that- the New South Wales Government, is in. favour of the proposal to pay civil servants fortnightly, and it is being considered. We notice that, the Thames Harbor Harbor Board; to bring, extended area under the jurisdiction of the Board, has massed the first reading, and has been referred to the Local Bills Committee. The yield of gold in Victoria for 1906 wa.s 834,7750z5, valued at £3,280,478. This has only been exceeded three times during the past 29 years. The !total quantity of gold raised in Victoria- since- the first discovery in 1851 amounts to 69,202,1780 z gross, valued- at £276,516,978. The Bendigo district is still the largest producer. I A- deputation representing the Wellington Hospital Trustees is to inter- ( view the Minister of Public Health! to urge the need of sufficient provision ! for all infectious diseases occuring in j the district. | Customs returns for the port of Auckland for July show an increase of £31,546 12s 8d under all heads as, compared with July of last year. Customs increased £3352- 5s 2d, beer £319 7s 6d, gold £26,195, and silver £I6BO. In Taibape- the other day a. frisky bushina-n- took up an- a,xe which was standing at the door of a shop, and put- a “scarf” in a. verandah post in front- of the- shop. Then he took a bar'of soap and threw it into the road. Subsequently he- was fined £l. It is stated that a large and influential Palmerston syndicate at pre- « sent has emissaries out in the district i adjacent t-o Tnihape, for the purpose of securing large areas of land, with a view’ of cutting up same into small farms.

Our Waiha -correspondent- writes: “The telephone subscribers o-n the W;tiihi Exchange have l now reached the very satisfactory number of 72. The increase shows ai great appreciation of the convenience of the telephone- arrangements”

Alt a football match at Mount Barker, South Australia, the umpire, who awarded a <mal to the visiting team, was rushed, and severelv handf led. Several of the visiting players were also seriously injured. -A- petition from- several bootmakers and hoot dealers in Hamilton was presented to the House by Mr H. J. Greensiade. The petitioners ask that the duty on hoots and shoes he not increased, the- grounds for their objection to an increase being similar to those advanced in the petition from the Auckland dealers. Th-e O'amairu Mail has received three contributions of £1 each towards the cost of an experiment- in raiimniaking. This will be the second time such an experiment has been made in the Oamaru district. On the first oedasion there wla-s a. balance of over £4O, and this sum- was applied to the purchase of meteorological instruments for the Wlait-aki Boys’ High School.

Mr Harry Judd 1 , of Matiaraw'a, Wairarapa, lias disposed of his 1000 acre farm in that district. to> a Northern buyer, for £l-1,000. About three hundred acres of the property is river Hat, from which Mr Judd is reported to have made a, small fortune by seddulously growing potatoes, year 1 in and year out, irrespective of demand. At the .Christchurch Magistrate’s Court Mr®. W. Bishop', 'S.ML, in dealing with a. case of forgery, said that he thought that the principal cause of many eases of forgery was the absolute negligence of peonle who, accepting cheque®, failed to make inquiries concerning them. “More., than half the eases,” continued Mr Bishop, “are caused by people taking these cheques indiscriminately. And it is so easy to make inquiries.”