ITEMS OF INTEREST

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43218, 22 August 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST

A number of persons were fined at the Auckland Police Court for hoarding tram- cars in motion. C Seven parents at Iluntiy were fined for nco'lectinsr to send their children rep marly to school. The strength of the" New Zealand defence ior 1996-7 was 20.033 men, or, to he more eorroet, 16,939 nieu and 3094 cadets. Dr. Nason holds that nowhere has an epidemic disease so much chance of successful c opay avion as in a public school. Over .3000 sienutiires were obtained in surmort of the abolition of bottle licenses in Dunedin. There is somethin" - of a buildiny boom in Hastings at the present time, £ lit.ooo worth of premises beiny in course of erection. The Commission appointed to invest is n-te the condition of the Siberian l’aiiwa.v ha-s discovered embezzlements a moo 11 1 ii is' to over £1.200,000. Albert Howell, charged with allowing pool to he p'ayed in his licensed Ir'Piard room at Ila.mil ton, the lnnpistiate said that though a pamo in itself mav lie absolutely innocent, plavi 11 it for money was ill opal. A fine of -10 s and 35s costs was inflicted.

0 The Observer says : - Tt appears that Father Haves is not dead, after all ;ti least, not the Father fla.yes who I toured this colony. The Father Hayes ! who died is a nrh- t of hipher rank in Stir Jesuit Order. ’ This is consnlinp. hut the fart remains that many of the h'd'cos which were solemnly taken when Father Haves was here arc not only dead, hut buried.” ; With the arrival of 900 Pa’vation | Army inmiierian.is a; Ouebee. the total •for the season to date is 13.000, and iby O. Cher the ;meremite lmmihev of ; iiioniera ll ls taken to Canada under I the auspices o' the • Salvation Army will auimuit to 16.000. Mr A. .Mi {'lor. a well-known miner • a• i! j ros'vrt-or on the West Coa-t, for j die lasi tin years, died in the Kceflon | Hospiml last we le He discovered | • alcalde rmms in, the district, includiup the ids,tor. now the Phoenix, mine, in which he was Hie largest s! ii I'choider. The estimated population of the- colony of Mow Zealand on June 30th last was 971,662), including Maoris. ■17.731 : Cook Islands, 12,310. Dunn" June IS7B persons arrived in the colony nud 2201 departed. Tlie arrivals in the same month of 1906 were 2370 and departures 2212.

The total number of births in the four principal cities of the colony in July amounted to 602, ayaiiiisl 538 in June, an in area so of 61. The deaths repi stored July were 289. an'increase of 59 on the number in June. Of till l total deaths males contributed 119. females Iff). One hundred and thirteen of the deaths were of children under five rears of ape, heiup 39.10 nor cent of the whole number, and 87 of iTiose were under one year of R<yo. There were sixtveipht deaths of persons of (55 years and upwards.

Two workmen eni'.hved by the Oarnopio Steel Company toucht an extraordinary duel in the steel works recently. Armed with -bars of iron, the ends of which were white-hot from the fires, they savapelv attacked each other. The other workmen and the police, not darinp to interfere watched the fipht till the clothes of the combatants, named Yuriek and Bulieh, were smoulderiny and their flesh was seared in many places. Sparks flew as the weapons clashed together, while the anieponists dodped before the plowinp furnaces. The fantastic combat onlv ended exhausted.