Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 4

Local and General.

♦ It is not the intention of the Government to propose! any alteration re- ' speotingi Hansardj Newspapers may now: be sent to Malta and Straits Settlements for Id. irrespective of weightThere is reported to be a- strange dearth of pupil teachers of both sexes in Wellington! just ndw;- i The fine of £150 imposed en Mr j MciKinnay for dunnmyism has l.etn j recommended to be red-iced to «£C>O i According to the official Year Book ' the climate of Thames, is remarkably | healthy, witho'uit any extremes of temperature. ■ T'wor 'dfoiftlorsi haxte resigned! i'l-ioiii, the Wairaui H'ospiitail, Njelsoni, as :v result of a recent enquiryThere were 1175 telegraph office; open in thei colony during September quarter 1 of this year, as against 1111 the previousi year- i Standing! Orders iCoiumitt.ee reports iti ha»s no recommendation- to make on the petition in favour 1 of the proceedings of the. Select Committees o>f the House being open to the pressThere seems to be an abnormal demand da this city for Government trade discount stamps, says the Wall- | fingiton Tjimesj- For the 'Sleptember j quarter the total sales for the colony were £855 ss; of this sum £7GB 10s was contributed by Wellington- i For ai long time past the miningl town of Thames; has been second on the list. The latest figures for 1 tho Thames are £C 0 15s1, after which comes Aiuckland with an insigniiicant £9 10s. Tho report of a wedding: at Waihi, ' forwarded !by a Thames resident, is j to hand 1, ibut as'lhei ceremony wan per- i formed on September 28th-, the dotails are toft belated to appear in j our columns- Besides a short report of the wedding appeared in ou. columns at tho timeThere is apparently a scarcity uf surveyor's: in the colony. The Commissioner of Crown Lands! in Marlborough stated at the last meeting of the Land Board that he had applied to all the chief 'surveyor!* of the .colony for additional surveyors, but without success, so* that the delay in surveying land in the M'a,rlborough district was unavoidableThe Bruce Herald reports that last j Saturday evening a train of about' 50 j waggons, detached from/ the engine • at "Milburni -station, started down an : incline, and getting, up pace ran through Milton at express speed, and ran to a standstill near Clarkesville, which is about six miles fronii Milburn. Luckily the line was clear and the points right, or there would have been- a smash somewhereA| correspondent writes : —"Shorthorns and Border Leicesters ha.vc re- : spectiviely maintained the lead for ' many years as the most useful breeds 'of cattle andi sheep for commercial ; purposes- When prime beef has to go forward to the London markets 1 Shorthorn 'bullocks) are selected before any other, while in regard to mutton it isi well known that there is no better grading sheepl for freezing than the Leicester- To be a, fancier of either of those breeds is not only i in- the fashion ; it ako signifies that j the farmer is- profitably producing (what is most required-" Mr MciCullough, in his opening ! speech at the Hauraki Band bazaar, ! spoke iv complimentary terms of the • Band's willingness to- help at all ' entertainments and for charitable purposes, and trusted that the public would comei forward with, ready response to show! their appreciation He stated! that the -uniforms of a corps! at a ibiand contest were taken imto ■co-nsidfer'ationi when! allotting" the points, and he thought the people ( of Thames would take a pride, in see- ; ing their representative band well equipped at the forthcoming contest- To- the ladies, especially the headsi, Mesdame* McLaren, Burton, Aubin and Gibbons, and the stall holders, the Band was iudebted, for; it was largely owing to their enter- | . prise and' vigour that the bazaar was j siiichetefuPly undertaken- He trust- I ed they would be 'rewarded by tho \ liberality of tho public.

To> prevent a* cow'flicking her tail ; as sliei Avas milked, Paiul Canroy, a,' New Jei'sey dairymanl, tied a lumpl oif lead ont to< thct offending tail- He is now in the hospital with a broken jaw! The work of a, Bishop in some parts of the Australian continent reiquire® donsideraible eaittrifid© in the way of time and physical enduranceThe- Bishop of North Queensland re turned a, few days ago to Townsville after his trip; to the South Australian border of his diocese- In a letter to ai friend in Sydney, Dr- Frodsham says:—"l have just got back from; n rough trip- I drove over 1000 iml3S myself- I found townships' 20 years and more old where never a clergy man had previously been seen, and yet people say there is no missionary work now in. Australia- I fin afraid I do not observe any conventionalities in the way of dress when I am on the warpath- A pair r.f moieskin pants, a flannel shirt, and at handkerchief, instead of a collar, form my episcopal dress-" A| London paper to hand refers in tho following kindly manner toi tho reappearance at the Pavilion: of Mr Dan Leno, the well-known comedian, whose death was yesterday reocrded in o!ur cables: —"The hold which Mr Dan Leno has upon the affections «f the frequenter:* of musid halls was amply demonstrated by the enthusinsticl welcome accorded him on the occasion of his reappearance at the London! Pavilion- He introduced three new .songs to a crowded house, cager 1 to be amused' by the great laughter-maker- In the first song ho represented am urchin vp 1 froml Shropshire, with many carious' experienre& to retail to his father and motherHis second venture wasi in, his 1 favorite veil* of ai garrulous old dame, who recounts the episodes of her married li-fo- Her brightest recol- ' lections! ' hung; round the Friday nights' when, her husband, who toiled' in the gasworks, brought h's wages! home:- Be did 1 not eaivn as mulch as the man next! doon", also :;• gasworker, but she remarks with a sigh, that she always understood this was due to the ifaiot that tho other man was smaller 1, and could get up the pipes; easier- This 1 explanation, told in Dan Leno's own iinitaible manner, went very well- The song ends in a highly-ludicrous^ dance. For the third song Mr Leno plays with great gusto: ai property violoncello, which, owing- to the damp, has a kink in the middle. To 1 this ncLOinpani meat Mr Leuo narrates- his adventures with a picnio party in a brewer'; dray-"