NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13456, 29 June 1912, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho fortnightly, korero of tho Nelson Savage Club will be held this evening.

At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. T. W. Bradshaw and J3. H. Moller, Justices, a iirst oftender for 'drunkenne&s was convicted and discharged.

The recent dairy winter show at Hawera resulted in a net profit of £202.

Oh Thursday evening an excellent programme of vocal and musical iteme was given at the Hospital, and was 'greatly appreciated by the patients. Those who contributed were Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Misses Ward, Messrs. A. Hintz, T. A. H. Field/and A. G. Beits. Dr. Washbourn , expressed his thanks to the performers for the musical treat afforded the patients.

It is understood that Messrs Edgar and Miller, representing an Auckland syndicate, who were in Nelson this week, have purchased a lease of some property in the, Mt. Owen district, about two miles from tho Rising Sun claim, and in the same line of country, for mining purposes. Mr. Edgar, who has had considerable experience in silver mines in Idaho and British Cohim-. bia, is stated to be very favourably impressed with tho prospects in the Mt. Owen district. . , : •

A boy who attended the Technical School at Hamilton the other morning missed the train. He set to work and walked the seventeen miles to Hamilton, which he reached at 12.35.

According to a witness who appeared before the Cost of Living Commission, Auckland is a cheaper place to live in than Christchurch in regarxVto the matter of boots and shoes. v iln the matter of rents, however, witness said Christchurch was a much better place to live in than Auckland.

Native compositors'of the "Journal of Kantanga. the first Congolese newspaper which appeared in the Belgian Congo went ,on strike. They claimed that all their names should appear on tho front page.

A cencation • has been caused in North Wales by the operation of mysterious visitors to the rubs of Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangfilteri, who are supposed to be searching for the will of Anthony Pritchard, whose vast estate, valued at £4,000,000, went into Chancery 100 years ago in the absence of a will or next-of-kin. The will was supposed to have been left in the custody of a caretaker named Jones, but after Pritchard's death it mysteriously disappeared, and claimants to the estates have been hunting ever since.

A beggar who has just died at Gap, France, was found to have £3,540 in gold and paper concealed in his attic.

After the longest absolute drought on record, one day longer than that of last summer, showers fell in London and other parts of" the country, on Saturday, May 4. The rainfall was small, but it was the. first measurable amount recorded at Greenwich sin.cc April 9. There have only been two months in London during the last 200 years with a smaller amount of rain than 0,02 in., which was the aggregate measurement at Greenwich for April.