News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4340, 24 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

According to the Waikaia ‘y correspondent of the -Mataura. Ensign, owing to the fact that no revising of purging of . the roll was done this year, there are hundreds in the district jflj who are not on the roll, and unless active steps are taken, to have them enrolled, they in all probability, remain dig- . franchised. The visit of the fine White Star steamer lonic to Gisborne last week was notable for ;he fact that Gisborne was made her last port of call in the J S Dominion. This is the first occassion on which a direct liner, carrying mails and passengers, has sailed from Gisborne for London* '1 i It is strange at times to see how men and women will brave fatigue for the sake of amuse* ' ment, which consists in being / present at every “ first at all the races redressing v twenty times a day, and of sitting up until the small hours • - of the morning, and then « sleeping on until noon. —Ladies’ - . ; Field, " * . The referendum in July last, by which the Swiss prohibited '£ff§ the manufacture and sale of • absinthe throughout Switzer- i land has resulted iu an unpre* cedented boom in the beverage. The prohibitive law does - not come into effect until July, 1910 *ta and in the meantime absinthe manufacturers in the canton of >4 Newchatel are working day and rj night with doubled staffs in _/jj order to meet the demands. | I The authorities at Melbourne r ;J$ hospital last week discovered ■■■M iu the clothes of a patient who . had just been admitted a nam- |j ber of bank deposit receipts, ;) representing £1392, together Jj with £1 fiu cash, The patient ’ -3j was an old man, Dennis Coo ey who had for some time lived iu. j| a hut by himself. He is sixty-' : Y;\J| two years of age, and was found lying down in a paddock in the vicinity of his hut. evidently very ill and weak. u Are the legal reprensee- ,>g tatives of a deceased beneficiary | who has received a lump pay: - fa ment under the Workers’ Com - Y| peusation for Accidents Act en.- y||j titled to receive a refund of the •; is deceased’s contributions of the Yj Railway Superannuation Fund? ; This rpiestiou was submitted by the Railway Superannuation •j| , Board for legal .opinion, aufi J the answer received \vas in <tbe ; affirmative.