ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43214, 13 August 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Copper lodes were discovered at Mount Radiant during last year, and their value was believed to be high enough to warrant' the taking up of many claims, with a view‘ to mining the metal. Five j prospecting licenses, however, which gave mining rights over 4125 acres, have been surrendered. A padkxoad' from Karamea (to the locality of these lodlee will be made, the Minister of Mines having recently approved a grant of £2OO for this purpose.

Towns, the sculler* who is 27 years of age, has had but little experience of match rowing,- his only previous coiy test of this r ‘;natipre.^being! “wheal: te. defeated ThbiroughgOOjl oyer the Raymond Terrace .course at _ Newcastle on November 10th lastl On thht occasion, he let bis opponent (make the Jjace at the start, but at the fpush he easily beat him for pace, and; won ootafortably. In handicaps, however, he has gained mlmy victories, although frequently giving his' antagonists long starts. Ia condition he weighs list 31b. . Aboording to the- San -Francisco correspondent of the ‘Observer,’ Mrs Wong Sun Yue<, sister (of Mrs Howard Gould', who completed' heir,missionary work in Chinatown, there by marrying a Chinaimian, hasjrenounoed her American citizenship, and declared her intention to 'become as much like a Chinese as jpossibla There is no similar ease recorded at! the local Chinese 'bureau. Mrs Wong will be subject to the laws/of China, when. she. visits that country, and when she returns to America she will be (subjected to the immigration regulation and restriction. laws. She has 'become a member of the tailoring firm, Ouon" Yuen Yick.

A little boy named Cecil Corboy, son of !Mr Corboy, of Oraifcau, had the misfortune to fall! from . his horse as he was coming from school, and break his arm at the elbow. Mr Corboy got a sulky to take his son to the ‘doctor, but as he was going up a hill he was run into by another trap with the result that the sulky was turned over, the springs broken and Mr ,T. Gorbov and his son were thrown out and it was almost a miracle they we'-e Tint killed 1 . Luckily no one war injured, and the father was aWe to proceed on his way for medical aid without further mishap. As 'illustrating the liberal spirit evoked by the social side of the op orations of the Salvation Army, n\ interesting incident was related to an Otago Daily Times' representative by Colonel Fisher, of Melbourne, who is paving a flying visit to Dunedin. Ac Army sympathiser at Blthaim has offered to donate 20 acres of land and erect and fully equip thereon a boys’ home similar in every respect to the institution at present managed by the Salvation Airmy in Wellington, provided the army authorities' will consent to. take the home over. Ais he naively puts it, “I have £SOOO to invest and I want to put it where it will earn good interest.”

Our o>romandel corresoondent wrote:—“Matters in; connection with the local 'School of (Mines are proceeding satisfactorii y, under the Joint management of Messrs R. E. Jamieson 1 and iA'. H. Gatland. Classes are bein<* re gularly conducted according to the time-table, and usually there is a- satisfaidtory attendance. Aj new 1 term will shortly he commenced,' when several new students are likely to enrol. The ededtrio lighting plant has recently I 5 * 6 ® 11 br Mr Jamieson, and is ag&flrto. first-class order, providing thed marinyami .number of lights.” iAI romaptae sequel to a Burnley soldiers during the South African war-has come, to light. While on escort duty Thomas Griffin, of the Kingfs Own' Scottish Bqrderers, had charge of a Boer wife and children fleeing .from Johannesburg. A storm ciame on, and the soldier, pitying the thinly clad group; threw his great-coat over them. At the time the lady gave him a necklet in remembrance,' and recently he was informed by a) London solicitor that he is to receive from the grateful lady a sum of money estimated between £3OO and £4OO.

The lot of the dairymen this winter has been a most unenviable one. “During all the years I ha/ve been connected with the business,” said a dairyman, “I have never known the condition of things to be worse. Ordinarily We make a bit of profit in the summer and! lost a little in the. winter, but this season 'beats them all; .we have had a great deal 1 more to do under more than unusually unpleasant conditions, and the regular loss has been much miore than usual.” Asked if it was! true that the dairymen having. runs Were just now'hard put to it to surmly their customers, he said it was- 0a hadi . haSd to supply feed for all his cows, there being little or no grass amdi what there was was of very poor quality. Taken altogether he had not known any winter so bad for dairymen, r This appears - to pretty wall the same over the milk supplying districts,l» scan* cases cheques hare decreased ifcm MO % M f&

During; last year l , fourteen teachers in the Auckland Education district resigned through* ill-health. The number granted leave of. absence for a week or more was 12/4;, and the amouiTE .o? salary paid during! aibisence was £.1056 l?s 10d. IMr Y. ( E. Rice, secretary, stated that the amount paid was swelled ; by grants to three teachers who retired after lengthy service.

The .Minister for Lands stated, in reply- to Mr. Poland (who asked for an amendment of the regulations regarding the occupation of 'pastoral lands within the Hauraki miming ..district), that the present regulations are extremely liberal, hut that any specific cases calling, for the extension of the present privileges would be carefully considered.

Rough play would soon cease to be al feature of football if all Unions emulated Taranaki in their measures of . suppression. The 'Management Committee of the New Zealand' Union was asked to 'make general several disqualifications. One player, for ■striking an opponent, had been disqualified by the Taranaki Union for life, another, for using offensive language to a referee, was suspended for a term of years. “Somehow or other,” said a member, as the letter from Taranaki concluded, “I don’t think there will be much rough play in Dairyland next;season.” The action of the Taranaki Union was confirmed, and the disqualifications made general.

The auocseps of the State coal mine in this district (says the Grey River Argus) must be very gratifying not only to the; people of the Coast, but also to ; the colony. The mine is now in excellent; working order, and the output ejaut reach over 1000 \tona daily. The , orders in hand are very satisfactory* and full time is assured for some time to come. In the. Estimates the tSumi of .£IOO,OOO is set down for further development in the {direction of extending the line up the Seven-mile Creek, a distance of some four milesi, in order to tap an (excellent seam of anthracite coal. When this .seam is worked the State mine will ibe . able to supply the finest coal in the colony.