GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The work of erection of the new Sanatorium at llotorua is progressing steadily, and is expected lo be finished by .March next. The building is a massive structure, and for architectural beauty compares favorably with anything south of the line. The tourist traffic in the (hernial districts is very backward this season. The usual inrush of visitors at Christmas time has not yet commenced. Both Tc Arolia and llotorua arc very qiiiVi. One Rotorua business man slal'es that business at present is little better than it was during the winter months.

The harvest outlook of»the Scottish farmer is to-day perhaps the most gloomy in the last fifty years (says a liomlon paper). The total grain crop acreage in Scotland (his year is 1,2119,!1i4 acres. An agriculturist of groat experience was interviewed by a representative of the "Dundee Courier" as to the monetary loss, and lie stated that he had calculated the damage at the present date at about t'2 per acre. On this basis the loss over Scotland will approximate two and a half millions sterling. The same agriculturist stated that the situation this year is worse than the disastrous seasons of 1850 and 1 !)rt3.

A Cornish editor appeals to his subscriliers in this unique way:—"lf you have frequent he.vlaches, dizziness, and fainting spells, accompanied by chills, cramps, chillblains, epilepsy, and jaundice, it is a sign that you are not well, but are liable to die at any minute. Pay your subscription a year in advance, ami thus make yourself solid for a good obituary notice." According to Mr. Murray, the owner of two stations in the Mackenzie Country (behind Canterbury), South America is a much better place than New Zealand in which to make money in the farming line. Before the Conciliation Board at Tiniara, Mr. Murray made this statement, and he added that while New Zealand was the best country he had ever been in for the working man, South America was the best country for the employers. "And why did you not stay in this grand country, where money is so easily made and where everything is lovely?" Mr. Thorn asked him. "Well," confessed the witness, with a blush, "I had a young lady in New Zealand, and I came back to marry licr." (Laughter.)