ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43215, 15 August 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

} Bttildifig tjjSersitiibn.s in, Gisbome'ar bring Retarded, through a scarcity ’ o ybrtbks; ■* • Oapt. Turner,, of Whakatane, ha -•. heeaiHiApfwiistedr engineer to - the Tau rahga - -CfeuM)* ’Council out of tfreln applicants. , . •Chelsea Sugar Company '(Auckland owns the largest building'of the kinc in the' Southern- Hemisphere. 0 vei 35,000 tons of sugar can be stored at -f 1 The; largest-; oargo of raw susrai ever- brought is- 3000 tons. ,i of- -land at Kuripuni, con- . sjderedi:,suitable for building • sites, -has been ‘ declined by the Government, ag -thyy 'Jiare decided that there- is n@ .necessity for Vorkmen’s homes at Ma*- " 'teidon. ; Nieo-1, juhr., Thompson ; had a narrow escapeTroni being* burned to death at MaWg'dh.rbina, -in the Paliiatua district, . T®F tvafif awakened by a choking sensation, apd found, his room' full of smoke. He YPWiletb Eikbcpmpanioh' out of bed, and ' alAb^ 3 'd^hgdiately ! flames burst upybn tMiii/'l Both'then had to run for ’ bb'eir fives. We-leaf'd Worn the New Zealand -'(Mines Record that a subsidy of £22 j 10s has'been- approved, on the reebm';mendafion'of -the Coromandel'Conncii, ? towards- the cost' of s putting in' a, drive 'rfor-ra distance of l.Wt ; on’the Golden - Hill. Claim, Kennedy'Bay; 'by‘Mr John Sweeney and mate. Tlip • New Zealand I Mines Record states that miners, ate Livingstone, who applied to the. department j for permis£*[on t°j prospect,-certain -portions of the. Otekaike. Estate and hospital and municipal endowment reserves near Oanlaru, have been informed that in era is ndpiov&rto grant prospecting IxoePses ovsr lends; included in the * nnowmonifa ’'eforre'd to. d Waibi resident has received a let-. rro! - j . Natives in. .Central Otago h - siiWis an interesting example t c exticine, dryness and heatim r m-nv-erties of the soil hi-that district ■ appears .that the ploughmen, dur- ; the course of their work, are oomto sto-p at intervals to allowl share,- or- detachable point of the ’ ’ to „V.-f7 v p w ,t. befo,-; .w h 7 'prodded. w t t h. : The fric- ' / my ”i connection with The _ a ‘ the soil makes the share pet- . foctlv hot. ' A veird practice, which it. may be honed will be confined to the United States, has been introduced at D'efro’t- A member of one of the churches there bought a phono era id, ■and sang into it bis three favourite songs—Rock mf Ages, ' Lead • .Kindiv .-Light; and Nearer my God to Thee In his; will be left a request that the phonograph 'should reproduce i his roye at the graveside. In .accordance b •yith,.his _ wishes. the dead man Was I allowed to sing;at l -his: oxvn: funeral A .Hawke’s -Bay runholder is tryiim *9, get together ■ a flock of • 1000 dm gora goats to keep down blackberries ( other w'eeds on his :properries Apothei station.. owner received 2" Angoras, from Moturoa the other day Professor '-Easterfield, speaking on technical education in Wellim-ton the ' ; other, day, v said ; .“Nearly all discoveijies in science have been made' hr men yfio Were Wlifferently paid be',ot aeek “irk* the halves .but to add to the'store oUhnmari. ktfo%ledg e .” has some • financial. men . btJ|lW!mg- for' the-- purpose of hatidl- - ofyimber country in ' i yieguptr'e' of the'''North Island The company has a capital of . L5p,01.10 W f ‘? fl-' Ftb'ings on "a -Sy 1 1S to - l>e erected-;on the ,i • ©bufttty '-taken - over, • and it is nm trucked to there' shipped, ."It, is reported that aMiougly the' company is only-a tew weeks old £1 * ares ai 4 already selling, at ,245. Recently dri; Oatfiaru three life in- * ssirance policies were, submitted to mmiion, .as nart of. the estate of ( cf ■ N: of net,, Tt.e-.had been mort’ \ 2 -amvl.to M r Prat f. who J' c anthpyaed. bx-'-the Supreme Coirrt to Tn " n :bf ■»<>. -of ] ' \r7 l m- p ere 0T!! 4h e; difo of- Mf -. -fori Sfadd 'ftp.' ' ! +f erS b :one wn - s; bit-the A.' ( ; . tne other two m tp e y,r< j 1 *r vmt. I^s purchaser, of aR three tf '! ' .-surreTtrhjr value +n T V - met 3 added .£,i t o ene ‘ ■ . .intensely New: Zealand menu OU ?h to the dinner-table of i hotel recently pro : .umpired-by 'a . rotring •^Srl? P &nd a gm ° US to'otbafl . lcfory. The .•sw'eets, p'resumablr of bad;.nerved the cook to a • bnlhant-conveption of past and prm - rSi- N X Z ? to i S ' ,(lrieS - T,,c mem ’ if 1 ""' !»«»*• .i. Krßlaok,.; Jelly, a la Webb; flViflo a la-Carbine; Apple Pie a la'Griffen ; Eruit Salad a la Amst; Compote de Eig ai la, New* Zealand, i