AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Southern Cross, Volume 13, Issue 13, 24 June 1905, Page 7

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Wyndham now possesses a poultry society. An effort is being made to have the Glenham dairy factory re-opened. About 50 motor cars are now in use in Hawke’s Bay. The Premier has learned that interest at the rate of 20 per cent, is sometimes charged for loans, and he intends to legislate to limit the rate. Bight new members were proposed &t the last meeting of the Mataura Falls Lodge, L0.0.F.,M.U. Bandmaster Mayo of Gore has had his salary raised to £55 a year, and new instruments are to be procured. The Dunedin Gaelic Society intend to erect a cairn to the memory of the late Quinton McKinnon, lost at Lake Te Anau in 1893. R, J. Scott, the well-known New Zealand wrestler, easily beat Gunga Brahm at Sydney. Messrs A. Lee Smith and J. M. Twomey have retired from the Legislative Council, their term of seven years having expired. It is not intended to make any re-appoint-, ments. Balclutha breeder sold a draught colt at auction in Dunedin last week for 44 guineas, and a few minutes later the buyer re-sold for £67. Sunday last was the 90 h anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. One threshing machine in the Geraldine district is reported to have put through 99,000 bushels of grain in seven weeks. Dairy factory managers in Otago are refusing all milk that comes to their works Horn suppliers who feed their cows on turnips. The purging process in connection with the Dunedin police scandal continues. Two more members have been discharged. In the year ended April last the patronage accorded the Workmens Hotel at Wellington (Salvation Army) was large. Meals numbering 31 331 were served, and 24,901 beds supplied. At the People s Palace, Auckland, the figures were far greater : 170,865 and 28,756 respectively. The Ornithological Congress wish the Commonwealth and New Zealand to adopt legislation to prevent the destruction of penguins. The Railway Department intend in future to carry ground as well as unground lime for farmers free. Mr W. Cooper, whose • hand was iujured while he was marking at the Grasmere range, died in the Southland Hospital on Sunday last. An inquest has been opened and adjourned. The deceased, who was 38 years of age, was a son of Mr James Cooper, Waikiwi, and was employed in the Corporation gardens. Two brothers named Robb, who kept a wood-yard at Gisborne, refused to register under the Factories Act on the ground that they employed no labour, but the court ruled that they came within section ten and fiued them 10s. Miss Pearce of Invercargill, Miss Hilda Burton of Dunedin, and Miss .J. Hutchinson, Gore, have received .positions on the nursing staff of the Southland hospital. Mr Arthur Lee, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, hopes that the AngloJapanese alliance, which is the greatest safeguard of the peace of Asia, will be strengthened ho safeguard the peace of the world.