LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10302, 24 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

>]'■-■■:■"'..': ■■:'".¥:yr'\ .■■■;:■■ \ r 9.X The market! shows no material i ;cfaan^R; Talwroans are easier,.sales •/feeing jaijada. at"'- 435,. 42s ,3d, and 42s !■' 6d. Wf^tabiß at 12s 6d and 12s,'^ith Jj Jls 10d. Tairnae were done j at 5« 6d and 5g 7d. ;■ Sfcctond day's racang df the Weli- ; ington Jockey Cfliitfe'itieetinfif talkins; , place tb-day. / ..... .. .. ... . • t ToKlay being ArtKff Day was ob, ! serred a*s a GoTternnjeninioiiday. The : :looal public offides dosed. . At this season all should see that , they hare Qpod wana underclothing. , The best goods in this line are supi plied % W. S. WyKfti and the pre- . sent is a splendid cbance for all tie , best class of hosiery ho is Belling at i- <big red^ons^AliJfTt, •

The local fish supply has improved considerably since die gale abated, and yesterday some good hauls came to hapd. Football excursion to Auckland on (Saturday. The fares have been reduced to 5s for adulita and 2e 6dfor children. . At the Te Arolia School last week a dlaaauwas being given deep breathing; exercises when one boy fainted and fell on the asphalt receiving a nasty blow on the head. It is notified that the share register of the Old Hauraki G.M. Co. will be finally closed on July 31st, "by which date holders of transfers of shares must lodge same for registration]. The celebrationoosf s the 29th anniversary of Right Kiev. Monsignor O'Reilly's pastorate and a welcome from the congregation and others after his recent illness will be held a* the Oddfellows' Hall this exening. A| correspondent writes from Tauranga as under:—-"A record shipment of cured fish wag forwarded from Tauranga to Aiuctkland, when the Aupouri had 1 on board over 400 dozen of smoked fish from the local factory of Stanford, Limited." Some splendid half-tone blocks showing the damage done to the Ohinemuri River as the result of the silting up of the river as the result of depositing tailings therein, have been published and alone make out a good case for the . settlers whose lands are being ruined. "Reports from the Piako are to the effect that the ducks are plentiful and good sport should' be secured after the recent boisterous weather. From Bbwtomtowta also comes the news that good shooting may be obtained in that district. Several parties intend leavingl for the Piako <this week. 'In the Thames mining; district there are about. 120 leases of mining! areas, about 6300 acres are so held, and the rental 1 per annum comes to albout This is only ibeaten by Waihi, where the revenue per year is about £1700, though the number of licenses and area held are less. The friends of Mr Chris. Johnston, of Pollen, street, will regret to learn that while, lifting a bag] of flour early yesterday morning; a varicose vein burst. Medical' assistanictei was sent f or, bu* Mr Johnston lost a considerable quantity of blood, and is in consequence in a weak state. It is hoped that he will make a speedy recovery. Tse accounts for the amounts due as proportionate payment for the concrete water tables and footpaths recently put down are now being issued and! are sure to create consternation in more than one quarter. It is likel" thalti in some cases payment will be resisted, in which case litigation is likely tio ensue. At the recenti No-license Conference in Wellington, the ; jHon.; R. MoNa'b said it was commonly asserted that a politician held whatever views he :had simply as a me^ns to personal advancement. This was not true in his case; as he had been a No-lidense worker long before he became a politician. . Many Thames residents will regret to learn of the death of Mr "Kb" Mynott, the well-known commercial traveller, who passed' away on Monday morning. The deceased, who was very popular at Thames, was attacked Iby a stroke at Thames some time txadk, and from this he never pronerly recovered. He leaves a wife and one child, and a large -circle of friends to mourn their loss. We learn that a local fishing yacht ,(owtaedi iby tMfr Penno, |Of Barnes) which brpke away. in the. recent gale, has been missmg. ever since, but the police were to-day advised that ' a yacht painted blue had been picked up off Cbroinandel. Penno and.party went out on iMJonday to. look for the massing craft, proceeding mi the direction of Miranda^ and they have not turned up yet. The probabilities are that the 'boat found at Coroinandel is the yacht that went adrift at Thames. ' Particulars of the circumstances surrounding the death of Sin Tadk, the Chinese leper at Macraes, were communicated to the Otago District. Health Officer,; who decided that an inquest was unnecessary. D. Ogston, .who has visited the leper on several occasions, states that the man had gradually grown weaker, and that his death was not unexpected. The health officer at once gave authority for the hut and all its ijoratents to be consumed <by fire and the body of the leper to be buried in quicklime. Mr 0. Gore Adams, who recently resigned the directorship of the Thames Slchool of Mines, New Zea land, in order to come to England, arrived at' Plymouth by the White Star steamer Medic, accompanied by his wife. They came up to London by rail, .and are now: staying at Streatthamy a pleasant suburb in south-west London. T* is Mr Adams' intention Renter upon tfie profession of his practice in London as a raining engineer, but a London correspondent states that he hopes'to combine pleasure with business. The 'Riev. F. A. Bennett, in charge of .the .Maori mr-ssiou at Rotorua, made a stirring appeal at Sfc Luke's, Rotorua, for financial assistance in jnission work, In the course of his sermon he referred jto the beggarly pittance, amounting 1 \in no case to more, than £&t> per annum, allowed to Maori missioners, who were expected to dispense the ,1 same hospitaility as the pakeha clergy, and- who were often reduced! to sore straits to make both ends meet. The rev. gentleman is reported; to hate said: "They work! undg|' nothing mot« nor less than the sweating; system; the word is not tbo harsh, and. I fos^one will -throw uft my billet as an open protest if %» present deplorable state of affairs }s not remedied?'

A movement, is on foot in Masterton! for the erection of new municipal buildings. New Zealand footballers play Queensland art, Brisbane to-day. The result wil .be posted up outside the office of this paper as soon as the cable arrives. We have received Government publications "Reports on the Timber In-; dustryqT New Zealand" and "Report on Scenery Preservation in New Zealand." West [Australia is this year, for the first, time, exporting wheat. One hundred and sixty thousand bushels have so far been shipped, and it is expected that the total surplus for last season will be over three-quarters of a million. • The people of Gisborne some time ago erected a memorial to Captain! Cook. They domibined with it a mem-j orial to the local troopers in the Boer war. Struck with the incongruousness of the completed ooniibinatipn, a ptfbH lie meeting decided, to collect funds to pay for providjing 1 a separate memorial for the troopers and wipingl: their raines off th-. Cook structure. Wotfk,< is plentiful in Foxton at present (says a local paper) and it is dififciulti to obtain men to undertake, it. Most of the flaxmill employees ■ take things easy at this time of the 1 year until the mills commence to 1 shriek again. A!s on evidence of the! scarcity ctf labour, Mr Austin, recent-j ly called tenders for grubbing; about 22 acres of ioi-toi '-<.-. to his mill,' but not a single tender was received. 1 In other centres a job of this nature would be simply rushed. Our Coromandel correspondent writes: "A; large number of friends assembled at the County Social Hall to "hid farewell to Mr A. F. Steedman, who has been on the staff of the local bramjeh of the Bank of New Zealand and who has been transferred to the: AueWand branch. Captain Swindley, xpresided, and presented M!r Stieedinan with a handsome travelling bag, suitiaUy inscribed,, and also a leather wallet. Messrs R. Simiinonds, Burgess and Bennetlti also sgoke in high terms of Mr Sltteedmani Mt Baker, from the Hamilton branoH, succeeds Mr Steedm*n as aoteouritant. and assdyer." The ffesponsJbility of parents for pow^ases'mladelby their children was the point at issue in a claim for 17s 6d preferred by a 1 Wellingibon photographer in the Magistrate's Court against a lady, for photographs of j two or her daughters aged 14 and 15J respectively. The defendant stated, that the. plaintiff had no authority whatever from.' her to take the photo-, graphs, for -which she therefor© de-! dined to pay. Dr. MoArthur, S.H. I said the plaintiff had evidently had no instructions from the. defendant,: and gave judgment for -the defend-i atA, without costs. In a concluding Parliamentary, report, on the publid school; cadet camp at the Kfcriatchunih fEa^'iiiioii ,Dr. J; R. Thomas, M.B;, Ch.B., makes the following recommendation for medical and surfncni work in connection with <»detrbattalions in camp: (1) That every battalion should have .its owtii outfit and emergency case; (2) that inßfcruotion* ; fh first aid tio the; mjured with the elements of anatomy 1 *»* physiology fee gjven to ail cadet, wys; (3) that squad* should be; formed for practice in the treating, liftim*?, and! carrying. of injured »ier-; sons; (4) ithat competitions should be held at, the annual camp to stimulate the iboys to take up the work. A narrow escape from a fatal aooidemt ooourred at Horopito. v A man named John McLean was cleaningl his g*m> when a young lady in the house asked to be allowed to fire at a target in the yard He loaded the gun twice, and after putting up the targs* for the third time, returned with the intention of reloading the firearm. The lady, however, began to load iti herself. As she closed the breech the charge exploded, and MoLean, who was about 15 yards away,l received the shot full in the face. He 1 fell to the ground, and the horrified young lady, seeing his face covered! with blood; fainted. The unfortunate man was afterwards sent to ike Wan- j ganui Hospital The Postmaster-General does not think, it advisable that boys of ten-' der age should be engaged for night' duty as telegraph messenger boys if nt cam ibe prevented, as he does not consider it in the interests of the I boys to tb© on the streets till all hours' of the night. As a practical way of effecting a change, a number of j young; men of about twenty years of j age were advertised for in Wellington on Wednesday, one qualification' being that they must possess at teast a Eifth Standard oertifioate^-wages, j j 30s a week.. Quite a number of likely young men. applied for the posi-' tfipns,- and ;the department... had no ' difficulty hi sdeettmg Ttfc> number of night messengiers reqyir^d. . j