Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10478, 23 November 1903, Page 1

Local and General.

Ai rocoauimendatiom by the inspector thai the Minister be asked for a.- properly ftted-up class roomi at the W'aihd High School has been approved by the Edutiation Board- ! Our Aucklandl correspondent wires 'that Mr Stead has seratahed Grand! Rapids, Machine Gun, amd Bagpipe* I for nJI c-Duajroments at the Aucklund Racin'i? Club's Summer Mooting. ' 'Crawling to Carnegie" is the "headingl put by a ram temporary to an Assttciaition telegram announcing that the Hastings Borough Council ha® decidtfd to ask Mi- Carnegie for £2000 for a public libraiy. In couneutioui with the St. Louns exhibition onl^' pamphlets and literature on 'Skiw Zealand' will be admitted into the United Static® duty free- Any thing to be sold at the Exposition will be dutiable in the ordinary manner. '

In 1853 the ■exports frijini the opif' '. ony were valued/at,J}3o3#7s larfl // ' i yioar tlie value was oVefr 13 J 'mini&as: v - "(- ---| At a recent -meeting o£;the Briabane Transit Commission. ,ri."gulatiori« were adtopted prohibiting,; 'stree* I ' preaching unless a permit be grcatiteJ. ' A 1 mew industry has •prung'j^p>j in .\ Stratford, writes a oorreepomdleniih— the anaffiufaoturo of muter" carisptHrfefti' six-horse powor machines being in course of constructionI Mr 0. Trussed, of Nelson, who U, known at Thames, the newly-aPpointr ed bandmaster of the Waiihi Fedfein Band, is expected to arrive about the middle of this week, when ha will take up his duties. The Education Board has decided to invite applications by advertisflmianit" for am assistant- master qualified to teach aeoondlary subjecfts at' the "Waihi Distriob Higlhi School, at an approii- -• mate salary of £-150 a year. ■ ■ ; - A' «onteaaix>rary protest* 1 against the itttrod'uctjioin, of Maori nomendafmrei by the Otago Education Board and other publlio bodies'. It says tlie Maori has no literature and' therefore his language is not worth perpetuating in a Britafthi colony. Tlie Auslrailiam colonies and' X«mt Zealand dlrink far more tea. per heal of populatiiotm than the British Islands. The Australian's txume first / with 7.61bs ,per head; the New Ze»landens next with 7.231bs per head'j while the people of Gineat Britain consume only 4.901bs each, ' A telegrami was receiyed, in, Te Aroha ii-oaa. the Haimilton Hospital to the efifeofc that the Maori man named Hunia I,' go severely brained on Tuesdiay momingi las* at Otway'a mill, by «ii 'whare- catching' fire, is in a' ~ Tery 'pr&daa-iors state, and 1 but slight'hopes are held out of ihisi reCoyory. x - • Tlie motor car now runningi. b»tweeni Kotorua arid 1 Wairafcei left;'Wai- •,' rakei one morning at nine „o'clock, and, after "spending thirty-five minutes ait Waiotapu, arrived «.t Wai- • miangu at half pa&t 12 o'clock, .where the visitors spent soioe hours-riflwing I, ' Uiei sights, leaving, Waimangu ait 4.C0 " ■ aindl ao-riving ait Rbtorua at 5.30 p.m-,v- - the fastest traivelling ever mad* on the roadi The Acclimatdsaticni Society haw forwPTdeci' 4000 trout fry, from th Okoroira hatdhei/ to Wahakei, am, had them distributed in, the V&rioui tributaries -of the Wadkatb River," be-" - tweten tlie Huika. Flails" aiiji' Lh.&^AfM.^ tia rapids. The fry arrived in-splen-did aoaidiitdon after their two ■ day*' travellingA miabter that has formed the .subject' of much' speculation amongst Southern englcus: 3" as been the number of whitebaiti 'contained) in a quart It is stated" tfoati a 'Warimaikariri fishar man, finding tiim'e draigging, sat'dow.l and counted) and recoiu/nited! a quart of whitebait, and made the number one thousand-'

Thw Government poultry farm (says sin oxolisinge) is badly managed. From all parts of Otaigo 'there are complaints' of the .infertility of eggs pro-. cured! Irdm Milton, and in thus district, purcduusers have been' woefully disappointed. Private breeders will replace unfertile eggs, but- not so th* Government .poultry faniu. Now that. the roaring; of fowls, is becoming mioh a populiir business, it is ,a serious . mattoii to have infertile eggs foisted! > on the people at high price. ' The Superintendent of the TourisfcDepartmtot has received a. letter from the dfirecrtor of the Municipal Improvement Section of the St.-Louis Exposition, in which that gentleman says that he will be glad "if any or our cities will forward anything' in the nature of a. unique at characteristic street, fixture, whiich would! ai oraoe add to the dignity of the principal plaza, of our 'Model' Civic Oentre, audl be symbolic of the interest that,, is being taken imi such matters in your country." Our Paerou coiTespomdcoit. writeii ; '"During tho past few days the Rer. Belton hits shown eigns of great improvettnent, and under tho cure of DrBuokby, amd those raursingi hi-mi, -itfia expected that it will mot be lope until he is about again. When he toofc ill his constitution was very anmch run down, and this ha« .accounted for the Uow progress mad© towards «*»very However, the treatment he ha« rewajßd ka,s worked! wonder with, him, aod wo join. hU many friends in booA, peculiar ineddeiat i s tepaebad h«o, Haglan. ; teleg^ph^liS ■ . gei was talking, w iplegnup, to Mr itutheriord, when Iva was .waylaid hr -.' a. strange man, who demanded that the messag© should he. handed orex to turn. Keedtaa to say this cool request was not acoedted to. Thp man ■ then attempted to take ii by'foroe " '' but tho boy succeeded! in; >*Tuedmt.\ ■/ himself free and effecting his ZivpZ ' Ho reported! th« (l ncid«nt to >fr lßa^ . erford and .also upon his return,'to the ' offic^ Information was at once given. totbapohoa; but a* the mesien^^ : - imablo to give, a clear de^ptioTof hia antagonist, Cowtoble McCarthy, ' co far, hm hitn vnsblm U> mvt*b* "^H , . ,