GENERAL NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5498, 20 April 1910, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

It is proposed to establish cold storage and jam preserving works at Hastings. ! At Bathurst (N.S.W.) recently Tom Burrows established anew world's club swinging record of 67 hours 20 niinutej A Kurow (North Otago) farmer is said to have marketed nearly 400 tons of potatoes off 30 acres at £3 10a per ton The taknings of the . Wanganui Corporation Baths for the season just closed are a record. Over 100 schoolchildren and 50 adults have been taught to swim during the season. It is-reported from Napier that blight has attacked Californian thistle this year in the Patoka district. The blight is one which has also attacked Scotch thistle. The death is reported froin'Lynn, in Massachussets, U.S. A of a man named Tyler, the original of Longfellow's famous poem, " The Village Blacksmith, " written in 1841. The Wanganui Borough gas department made a profit last year of £2800, and the Municipal Opera House was in credit £353, the total receipts from the latter being £996. Tramway receipts just met the expenditure, including interest and sinking fund. The sand at Moturoa is saturated wit'i petroleum. The Taranaki Daily News states that the other day some of the 11 beach combers " set fire to a pool of oil there. It burned furiously for three hours, and presented a unique spectacle. All the shellfish in the locality are tain- . ted with petroleum, and consequently unfit for consumption. At the Blenheim. Soprem9 Court the mherday, when a female witness was being sworn, she was asked to take the glove off har right hind, whereupon the judge said that there was a mistaken idea that a woman could not bs sworn with her glove on It was bad enough > for the witnesses to have to kiss f he same book, and he hoped that very soon t kissing the book would be abalished. Bnuker coal and stores to tb J value L of £1500 were purchased in Aankland ' for the use of the P. and O steamer Morea on tha homeward voyags. The stores included lOi tons of meat and 1| r tons of butter, a quantity of fish, fruit, aub vegetables. Ihe bunker coal am - mounted to 300 tons The Aacklaud c agents for the company estimate that 6 the three vessel* which have visited i- Auckland have been responsible, on the l average, for the payment of £1500 n each, or £4500 in all, on stores, coal, y and dues. h A total of 3557 men were employed c during February on various railway * works in the Dominion, consisting of 8 328 artisans nnd 3229 labourers. On *• tha Stratford -Ongarne line 515 labours' er» were engaged, 457 on the North :e A uckland line, 40 1 at Kawakawa Grad hamtown, 317 at Gisborne-Rotorua, >f and 177 on the Nelson-Inangahua line. During the same period, 1057 men were L s engaged on different ro id works, Tara - naki having the largest share with 305, Auckland being next with 258, and 1 "Wellington third with 103.