GENERAL NEWS
There is every prospect of a' record |apricot crop in Central Otago this season. as the trees in the district am heavily laden with blossom. I'roviding no late frosts occur, orchardisls will reap a golden harvest. The peach yield also promises to bo heavy. i
A well-dressed man called upon a Napier chemist and asked for something that would kill him in five minutes. The man insisted on being given poison, and offered to pay handsomely for it. At last the chemist, .seeing tliat the man was in earnest, gave him a black draught, and then communicated with the police. Subsequently the stranger was arrested., and he has now been committed to a mental institution.
j Writing from London during the recent strike, Mr. ■!). Crewe, ex-Mayor of Pahiatua, says>: "It is a very deplorable, thing to think of men with families having to work for, say, 23s to 2&s per week, and living here is much the same price as in New Zealand, tuking it altogether. Surely our laboring class in New Zealand should feel very comfortable when they read of the "conditions of the working class here."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 3
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190GENERAL NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 3
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