Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10524, 24 April 1907, Page 4

Local and General.

It is interesting to note that tiLcrt' ar c 896' public Acts in force in.New Zealand, and 1049 local a,iid mersonnl. The number of Licts itpealed is 2216 nnd tliet Atts obsolete 52.

"You will not find an underfed dh.ld in New Zealand, from the Nbrth (\p* to thie 'Sbuth," siays Sir John Gor.sc, who reksemtly. visited New Zeaihad; "the whole dhild population is, in fact, positively Iburstinig- withl,health.'"

Alt Wiaihi the followingl were declared the new school committee for the ensuing; year:—SaJlter 168 votts, Nicholson 164, W,ooloixaill 161, Newdick .145, Turnbull 138, Murans 133, Murray 124 1, Oaithey 123, Harper 121.

As sihiowing! how little New Zenland ,iis known, in the world, the fait ie worth mentioning 1 that a lawyer's letter from the Old Country, recently received hy a Palmeirston resident, w. r>s Jaddressedl "Ifciw Zealand, in North Aiustraliaii''

A deputation of maimed men out cf employment wiaited (bn the) Acting Premier alt Dunedin, and complained that no preference was given marrie:i men in seeking 1 employment. The compJaint wag aga,insti tfliie system of misleading married men. The Minister promised to look in)to the matter.

!Ait A'ustnalia's premier exposition — the great Melbourne Exhibition*—the tot.al attendance reached 1,963,436, fo thlaib New Zealanii exceeded thle Victoria,^ figures % 3425, and as th«,t Exhiibitio'ii! remiained open for. a lonfjeV period than, this colony's, the daily average at the Christchurch, Exhibition wnls snlbstanitiially larger

Rialbibiting is about as profitable an induistry a» there is at the present time. Th« Gtote iSteniard. ihas heard of a rabitter vAy> las* week, forwarded 1200 rabbits pfijLe fr«»zer, which atJsd a pairl, yieflded a return of £1 2 10s. MaMii|g! a liberal, allowance for wrjecrta, and g^titteg up" mvlj in the momiing, the industry must /bet darned a remunerative one.

• Ai ißotwwai, co.rrets,j*9!ncUpit.. Writes : - ■"Ileaili .jipii'Cons^^Pi^'Bern, who h««Tbe^n _eit«*ioned ai rTa.tipo !For somo tiiri*e,".'|ias' tnmsferred to Hauiiltp<n; aiid' tjh,Slk'."he will-be s«iperbeded by !Go';isfeibl«('.:^fjri>ln, now'Aidifeoined; at Hajmiltfen; !I|h,ere are mmwirs of <#&*ges parading in tiha ranks of til-o police In'RHorua,, -Kujfc nothing of a definite -ofiataGter hias- taik«n place.