TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10959, 30 April 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

I A mail for South per ss. Weka closes . at 7 tliis cveirng. f Tenders are invited by the Hospita' ■ Trustees for the erection of an isohitioi ■ hos_>U;d. > i Charles Johnson, an employee of the ■ Sydney City Council at the Lang Park electric lighting station, was electrocuted on tho Bth inst. Johnson was engaged ir f taking down some "live" wire, when tin ladder he was standing on slipped,, and h £ , fell across the wire. • Tlie Nelson Colonist states that an im portant step m connection with the fruit industry is about to be undertaken, and the result wi 1 ! be looked forward to witl igreat interest. Mr Blackmore Govern ; ment Pomologist, has cone to Motueka tc ) superintend the despatch from that district of a trial shipment of several hundred case! of apples for the English market. As h well known, the Government inspecton must pass all such shipments. The varie . ties with which the Home market is tc , be tested are, it is understood, Jonathans and Five Crown Pippins. Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., speaking a| Wyndhom, sent his audience into roars oi laughter m descanting on ancient lawgivers, such as Lycurgus and Solon, and ) the manner m which these laws were revived or found to be m existence m ■ modern times "In Rirotonga," said Mr i Mackenzie,, "no young man and woman ■ are allowed 10- walk out together of an l evening without each carrying a lighted • torch. If they do they get six months on i toad-making, and the roads I walked on i at Rarotonga were the finest I ever walked upon." Tlie Dunedin Star says:-— The phrase 1 "large and enthusiastic" as used to pad \ out supplied reports of candidates' meetings has no further value m our eyes, and henceforth will only appear if it has tlie luck to elude the sub-editor's scrutiny. If any writer wishes to show the attendance to be "large" let him give the precise ' count, and as for the "enthusiasm/! tliat need not b& affirmatively, specified. Our faith m such generalities was quite upset upon receiving trustworthy information that one "large and enthusiastic" meeting was attended by ten persons, who sat stock still and smoked whilst the candidate wrote out for publication the "few remarks" he would have made if there had been listeners present. Tlie Taranaki County Council has furnished a valuable dbject lesson, for other public bodies by adopting ferro-cohqrete as the material used m the' construction of a "number jpf its, bridges. At the m.- . stance of the County Engineer, Mr - John Skinner, under liis , superintendence, and from plans prepared by him, 'the Council lias already had erected, several of this material, as well as a number of culverts of eight-feet i span. Over the Waiongona a bridge" with a 45ft arch, has been completed ; over tlie Piakau one with a 30ft arch ; over the Maketehinau and , the Werekino bridges with 14ft arches ; while others with larger spans are m course of erection. The Manganui bridge has oiie 60ft and two 24ft spans ; the Oakurahas a 62ft span of ribbed plate, and the hew bridge over the Waiwakaiho at Fitzroy will have two 60ft and two 30ft arches. The ''bridges . which have been completed have "turned out very \i;ell, and are cheap and durable as compared with any v other material. '..•/■