NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5499, 22 April 1910, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

o _ t^Tiie Dannevirke Evening News pay a high compliment to Mr A. Wilcox the storekeeper, of Waimiro, who is i very remarkable man, and a splendii example of the power of mind over ad verse circumstarces. Mr Wilcox loe bis sight, yet witli a young family, cami up here before there were any roads and faced all the hardships of a pioneer's life. He took up a section, sue felled bush though quite blind. Hi says he used to keep bis hand on th< tree to feel which way it was going t< fall, so as to avoid it. He has hac some maivellous escapes while riding about, : owing to bia blindness. -Mi Wilcox has built up a prosperous store keeping business, with telegraph mon ey order, and savings bank attached : he has achieved success in the face of a handicap that would have crushed thousands of men into being mere depend • ents and burdens on their relatives. One hundred and three varieties oi noxious weeds were collected, says a Cbristchurch correspondent, by the school girl who won the prize for this exhibit at the Oxford Agricultural and Pastoral Association's show. The next competitor, a boy, gave up when he had collected thirty varieties. " A Justice of the Peace has not the jurisdiction of any Court," said Bfr J. W. Salmond, Solicitor-General, before the Court of Appeal last week. " Hie jurisdiction is merely personal, and he could hear a case in his own diningroom if he liked.' His Honour the Chief Justice stated that he knew of a case where a Justice of the Peace had heard a case on the roadside near Clint on, and fined a man £5. MrT.W. Stringer related a story of a magistrate who tried a man in a coach, and had him locked up at the journey's end. For five years a Nelson grower has cleared £2000 a year from the fruit off a hundred acres. A Biwaka grower took £1100 worth off nine acres last season. It is stated in official quarters that for the present the territorial force of a district will train by corps — viz., regi • ments or battalions — and where n t able to train by corps, then by units — viz., squadrons or companies. Allowances will be as follows while in training camps : Rations per man per day, 2s ; forage per horse per day, Is 6d Pay as follows : — For each day spent in camp all ranks will be granted the following personal allowances— Lieu, tenant - coloaels, 15s ; majors, 12s ; captains, 10s; lieutenants and second lieutenants, 8s; sergeant majors and staff sergeants, ss; sergeants, 4s; corporals, 3s 6d ; other ranks, 3s. These rates of pay can only apply when officers and men remain continuously in camp for seven days (day and night; and should this not be carried out then only rations and forage will be allowed. A circumstance that is being talked about here (says the Waverly corres- ' pondent of the Patea "Press": will' make many think pleasantly of tbeii growing years. The other day there worked on Mr lon's farm three old mcD ', whose years -between them numbered 216. They were harvesting, and did it ' well. The eldest, John lon, who built ] the stack, has seen a summer or two < over eighty, and his brother and Victor \ Zoland, the two other veterans, are now [ fast approaching 70.

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