ITEMS TO INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43118, 25 July 1907, Page 1

ITEMS TO INTEREST.

The ..State pays £2500 per annum - for, the .eradication/ of noxious weeds y on -'Crown: lands. : At- Wellington a woman was fined 40s’ 'attdl <£6 16s costs for apnearing in a shop while suffering from infectious disease. . r Thi,e Auckland Harbour Board has finally decided, to accept the tender of Messrs;; J,. H.: Adams and Co. for the construction.; of new sheds on the Railway 'Wharf. ' • i j The amount'-Taised: in Wellington J for the Serfdom Memorial (including j £l3O from the -performance given by the Besses o’ th’- Bam Band) is over £6OO. It costs £2500 a year for preparing poultryiTfor 'expdrti, plucking, grading, packing, freezing, etc. The. poultry; ffatTh's l —'Ruakufa r £SOO, M&umahaki £750, Burnham £6OO, Milton £800.: •; . ./ r;.;, . . Afc- a (Melbourne -suburban court several.' bakers l were proceeded asrainst under- the Poire'Foods Act for having coloring matter in cake® sold bv them T hevforeign. substances complained of were found on analysis to be analine dye.} : Defendants - were • convicted and fined;:-' i , Our Paeroa correspondent writes : —f'-flftST ahdi, (Mr's; ; (Cameron were enter- j tainod by. the members of the Paeroa : •Methodist Church in celebration of

their recent marriage. During the evening "Mrs Cameron was presented with, a handsome.dressing case, in re'cognjtion of the good work she has done for the church.” Already £31,286 has been expended in providing workers’ dwellings .in the colony. There are 20 in Auckland, 25 jin Wellington, 12 in; Christchurch, and 14 in Dunedin. The report states that the class of. tenants throughout the colony is very good, and many of them, express. gratitude for what the Government has done for them; in this direction. Our Coromandel correspondent writes :— —‘John Jones, a settler at Cabbage Bay, was taken to the Coromandel Hospital with his right hand badly sell altered. He had laid his gun against a tree while he was working at bush, clearing, and absent-mindedly* his hand upon it, with the result that it went off, and the chargeentered his hand.” • We Want definite churchmen in the colonies,- but there is no room for men with ‘frills,’ fads, or ‘party’ ideas. We want missionaries. . . . Thr average country settler does not care two pins about the parson’s ‘school oi thought’ ; he does care about the parson being a -man like himself, . anc! that he should!-be" a better man be cause he is a parson.”—Extract from an essay by Bishop Neligan in “Church and Empire.”Gold 1 has been discovered in large quantities in the Mlonica; district of Portugese East Africa, according to Mr Maugham*, the British Consul fo 1 the Beira district. He states that nuggets weighing as much as four ounces have been found, and that gold in “sensational quantities” ir dust, grains, and l particles is deposit ed. over a large area/ In January last fifteen tons of ore treated yielded gold at the rate, of £lO a ton. Oi the Rand tho average yield is. £2 Ls 3d a ton.

An official history of the South African War has been, received by ah the commanding districts in New Zealand. The work was prepared by Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.Bl' The view. of things which it •'‘popular accounts,” and also from, the presents . ,is . very different from history, of the war prepared for the I o ;j>tv TimeSi by Messrs Ameay and of the Juvenile Court at Dunedin a boy, 14 years of age, was charged with having an air rifle in his possession. He was admonished and. discharged, and the rifle confiscated. The Magistrate suggested that the. ;i schoolmasters should tell their pupils that it was against the! law for boys under the age of 16 to carry firearms of any sort, whether discharged; .iby’ gunpowder or not. The boys could not ibe expected- to know this, and he thought that school masters and parents were the proper persons <-iohconvey the information.

A Kalgborlie slaughterman, Mr David Maher, recently caused some sensation by making a sworn affidavit to the effect , that, a number of cattle, sheep, and nigs killed in the slaugjiteryards of the district were diseased, and :that the ffltihv and disgusting conditions under which the dressing of some of the carcases was carried on were worse than those depicted by Upton .Sinclair in “The Jungle.” The affidavit), which was read in a committee meeting’ . the Kalgoorlie Council, alleges that cattle which ivere afflicted with all manner of liseases were killed. It also asserted "hat the men themselves were in

Tianv cases suffering, from the most oathsome cpmnlaints,: and that some of theml .ipathed. in. tubs and tanks vhioh Were used for-washing carcases, [t is stated that! the .proprietors of •he establishment allud'd bo Mr .Maher in the affidavit htend tof' tskie action against him.

The crew of the barque Wooliahra, wrecked near Terawhiti on Sunday night, were taken in hand by the Wellington branch of the Shipwreck Relief Society, and provided with boots,. clothing, eta' The society is providing board and lodgings for the men until they are paid off. A sum of £<l3ff and a watch and chain which Captain Onderson entrusted to the care of this officers as they left for the shore are being forwarded to his i widow at Balmain, Few South Wales. Messrs Coldham and Skinner, contractors for additions to the Komata public school, are making good headway with the work, which should be completed in about sa month’s time.

Probably the largest sum, paid in Few Zealand for duty on cocoa and chocolate for One shipment was that made by Messrs Cadbury Bros this week, amounting to £1907 10s Bd.

Scenes of extraordinary excitement were witnessed in the Chicago wheat “pit” on May 13th. One house employed as many as thirty brokers to buy. Other houses gave buying orders for millions of bushels. When the, dollar mark” was reached, hats, tradin' l, cards and even coats were thrown high in the air, while the fanners •and “their wives who filled the galler-' ies cheered tp ai deafening extent. Fever were there so many farmer spectators. Many of the emerged,. from the struggle in the wheat pit/ with their olothinc torn to shred's. R