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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 131, 7 August 1895, Page 4

A Waipawa resident named Joseph Peers met with his death in a singular manner. He was erjgaged in distributing phosphorus, when it ignited in his trousers' pocket. While endeavouring to extinguish the flames his legs and hands were severely burnt and he was advised to become a patient in ths hospital. Lockjaw set in and he oxpired a few days later. There are on a table in the lobby of the Honse two turnips, a big potato, and a handful of oats. They are all marked as the produce of Pomahaka. A stranger entered the lobby and saw this produce of Pomahaka and exclaimed—' What, is that all Pomahaka has produced during one whole year?' Those present indulged in hearty laughter. Commissioners of Crown Lands have been instructed to dispose of no more lime quarries, and a Bill is to be introduced by the Minister for Lands toprovide for the purchase of suitable quarries. News from the East by the China mail states that a cyclone recent iy swept over Macassar. Twenty vessels lying in the harbour dragged their anchors and were wrecked. Their entire cargoes, consisting of coffee, petroleum and copra, were lost. Tho space already applied for at the Christchurch Industrial Exibition exceeds that available, even taking into account the now itimex which it was recently decided to build. In consequence, it has been decided to extend the building by another 44 feet, and to announce to intending exhibitors that this is the final decision. It is the intention of the Government, to assist in the establishment of dairy factories in districts where the settlers thomselves are not in a position, owing to want of capital, to erect and start such factories unaided. Considerable pressure to secure State help in tho direction indicated has come from Auckland up-country districts, and the same want is paid to have been felt in the South. Tho Adelaide Register, commenting on the S. A. Government Bill providing for advances to settlers, says it will tend to reduce interest and the earning power of saving bank depositors, and suggests that a fair course would bo to obtain a plebiscite of the savings bank depositors, and appoint a Commission to inquire into a Bill, and obtain the mandate of tho people at the hustings.