N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10148, 26 January 1911, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association.

WEEKLY HALF HOLIDAY. WELLTNGTCV:, Last Night. A meeting of representatives of local bodies, held to-day to fix the day for the weekly half-holiday for the current year, decided in favour of Wednesday, the same as heretofore, by six votes to threie. NOXIOUS WEEDS. WAIHI, Last Night. The Waihi Goldmining Company was fin«.d 'los to-day for failing to clear certain mining • reserves of a noxious weed, to wit, blackberry. A DOSE OF LYSOL. WAIHI, Last Night, i A young girl in service in a boardinghouse took a dose of "Lysol," and in consequence is now in the hospital in a precarious condition. BOWLING. WAIHI, Last Night. About one hundred bowlers, under the auspices of the South Auckland Bowling Association, commenced a j championship meeting here to-day. I ; THE LICENSING ACT. : . ; WAIHI, Last Night. : As a sequel to the recent police raid on the Waihi beach, H. Sorrensen, at the Magistrate's Court to-day, was convicted of selling liquor without a lisense in the Tauranga electorate, just over the border line of the Ohinernuri district, and fined £25, with costs. W. Turner, for illegally dealing in liquor at Sorrensen's <jamp, was fined 20s. Philip Toms, for ordering liquor without giving the pertson to whom the order was given a statement in writing of the name and ' address, and lined 30s. I 7 • A TRAMWAY LOAN. •WANGANTJI, Last »Night. The ratepayers in the GonvilleI Castlecliff tramway district, to-day, | carried by 403 to 24 votes, a proposal |to raise a loan of £35,000 for the | construction of tramways. Power is . being supplied by the Wanganui Borough Council, and this new system will connect with the Borough tramway. When trams are installed, it i will be, possible to travel from Aramoho to the sea- beach, a distance of between six and seven miles. The loop lines will tap a large area of cot'.n----tx-y between the town and Castlecliff; * j TYPHOID AMONG MAORIS. j DARGAVILLE, Last Night. I Nine cases more of typhoid i'ever , have developed in the Maori settle-, j ments at Rapia and Naumai since j Saturday—five at the former and four 1 •at the latter. Dr. McGill visited the ; camps to-day. The water at Repia is obtained from, an artesian well, and the supply appears to be quite pure. It is thought that the contagion is carried by kissing rather than from insanitation or impure water. UNEXPECTED PLEASURES. DARGAVILLE, Last Night. : The Hon. R. McKenzie, Minister of, Public Works, will shortly visit Northern Wairoa, but he has advised the Chamber of Commerce that' liei : is hot» yet sure of the date. . 1 Mr Massey, Leader of the Opposi-, tion, is expected in February. .FRUIT IN THE NORTH. DARGAVILLE, Last Night. • The Northern climaite.v is li'specially adapted-for fruit, andflapge | areas are to be planted out next sea- | son. Peaches are plentiful, and in one of the orchards props are necessary to hold the branches up. One grower is getting; the ground ready to plant out t .3§,0Q0,' 'Sjbratwbeisy.