Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10409, 9 September 1903, Page 1

Local and General.

Pingl pang is ta be included! among the oarap'et.ifcioTis *at the Methodisb Ohun-dh Sale of Work at Paeroai

A raMegramj. ftxxmi Sydney states that EL'M-s. Boyaill Airtihiur. will sail for; Singapore, Tfiai Hreniain.tle, on tlie lfab in&t-

The iparaonal state ol Mr jßiidhaird Hawkins Beaucihiaiiup, ai resident of Dublin, hm been proved at £423,926H« beqxieatihcidl to chjaariti^Su

TVaiges in the Unitedl .States on tl» t a%-erage, are naore -thlam. twice tflioso' in Belgimmi three times, tliose of Dewimarik, PVajniee, Greranamyi, Italy, aowJ Spain., «ndl mm and ai half those o Ehfflasod' amdl 6fc*l|tilaind.

There are 60 oases on the Wellington list awaiting disposal by tike Court of Airbitraitioiv, eight of whidh, are under the heading of 'dispuites,' and the -remainder enfondemiemits, Klladnifll foal oomipensation, ©te

It has been thiat most Italians of t!he poorer dla®a .airei noted! for their general 1 good health. This iar, to somie extent, attributed to the fact that the working people of Italy eat less meat than those of any other European nation--

There are 187 labour bureaus intKa colony. The salaries' p^aid to inspect-' tons and 'Other officials of tihe Laibtoum ; Department amount to £4374, exdhi- [ sive of amount paid! for' ext^ra clerical assistan.ce, amni-bomus to ipolipe officers ' acting as 1 in-spectoiiis-

i ! A telegram 1 fr-omi Aniiakliaindi states thorn the ■ Colonial Secretary haa adr visedl the Auckland AJocdkoiatisation ' Society that to the new regulations the .trout fishing season in "Auckland will oomimienioe cm lsfc October instead! <of Ist Naveanibett 1 as previously. It is-stated; by ;an authority who has recently yisLtedi- the north that the Aucklandl district Is saturated with ■anthrax. 'Numibers of deaths of flattie have occurred lately, and have not i been reported to the authorities,, pro- • balblSy for. the ireason that the owners were ignorant of the cause of deatih'. The AgricuLtuiial Bureau of tti'es United' States has 1 issued) a) (report that the average conditioiij of the cotr loni crop was 8-2.2, the hisjhes-t for- ten yeai-s. Subsequent iram!outs that the aotton comer had! ipracitioally ended! led to <a pandemioniuml in New York, prices breaking .all roundi, and closed in a feverish unsettled staite-

A demon stiration^ was held in the Hospital' groumdls oni Siumday afternoon (wirites our Cbromandel correspondent) in aid) of the fundsl oF that' institution, when a number of saciredl selections were retoderedi on th«i conr cei"t.phone, mani^pulaited by Mr Thos. Washiiiigton. I iinderstand the Eo»----pitatl will benefit to the extent ot about' £19-