INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Giltnyiil-aiicl Clarke report having di-' posed of a number of valuable properlies last week in Auckland province (Waikah, and Thane- Valley), prin.ipall. i" '-outhcin byu'i-. The areai.Migc.l li 2-ai .ici/-. to 17UU acr.'lb.■ ilc.n„ul l"i the Aurtlieni lan.Jf, tin re.i-oiiable pri,.e„ ruling.' and Me-i'.-. i-ilmoiir and ( larke have a number ol clic-c propertie- -till in their hands for di-po-al. Since la-t report the lirni haalso di-|.o=.'d of lour farms iu Northern Taiamiki. all lo buyers from the South. A warning i* issued to trespassers on a number ol farm- mi the Lguiont Road. Deyolees of dog and gun -hould note.

The Clerk of the Taranaki Couuly Council notilie- that the county electors' roll- and defaulters' lists for HIH7-.S arc open for inspection at Ihe places named in the advertisement. On Thursday next Web-lei Bio-, will submit to auction a loft frontage to Daw.-oti -treet with iron store. Mr. W. T. llookham. the ca-h clothier, is curving an immense, stock in. hats. He is 'offering a particularly weil-lin-ished hard fell hat for is lid. Try one. Preference shares in the Jionithoi) Freehold Petroleum Company, Ltd., are now obtainable from .Mr. .1. C. Da vies, sharebroker, New 'Plymouth.

Mr. 1). Charteris, land agent, Ncv Plyiuoiith. notilies isiune excellent properties for sale iu his replace advertisement on page one i .Mr. V. W. Fivtlu'V, laud agent. Kill,am. has a replace on page one giving particular- of three dairy farms for The annual meeting of householder* iu connection with the Central School ilisirict will be held at the Central S.-l I this evening at 7 o'clock. A nice handy farm of 1!H) acres, clo-e to -clio.il. store, post ullicc. ami creamcry, i- a.lverli-ed. Anyone in -earch ot j -harp l„ Mr. Newton King.

A pathetic story was unfolded before Mr. C. C, Kettle, S.M. at the Auckland Police Court the other day, when William Garrett wiw charged* with deserting tlic steamer Wakanui. Garrett, when the charge was read over to him, tyiid: "It was like this, sir. I have a wife and children at. 1 lonic, where I lost my position through the introduction of mechanical stokers, and I tried very hard to get work. Night and dav for live months 1 trod the streets " and doteks of London trying to «et a job, until at hvt I was told that"wc would' 'have to go to the union workhouse. That meant, sir, that me and my wife j and the children would 1,0 separated, to j say nothing of the disgrace of it. Then I heard of the prospects of work in Neiv Zealand, so I left l| lr wife ami children at Home and worked my way out. and deserted when I got here | don't, drink, nor interfere with anyone, hut I

have » good wife, mid 1 want to gut her out here to live with me in this land of plenty, i hayc a job to <«, to in Auckland, imd that was further temptation to desert." The charge was allowed to stand oyer to see If any arrangement could he made with the captain of the steamer to secure the man's release,