LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10420, 13 May 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Kansas Senate has totally pro-, hibited the use of akfohol, even for miedical, soientific^ and trade y urposieß. ! Owing to the lack of farm hands in- Austria,., "good aondulct" convicts are 'being employed as agricultural labourers. {Rieoenit exoavations in Mexico have brought to light the remains of a man who, it is stated, moist have been 15ft tall.

"The touching! of the pockets of the worldly-going Churchman evokes a: long aiid) loud squeal," says thu Vicar of Burton Wood in his pairishmagazine. lA) separation order was recently granted at Walsall (jEbglamd) to a girl! wife) of 17 yeairs who has had three children. She 1 was mairried when she was fifteen. Denvent potato crops in many parts of the: Wairarapa district are rotting mi the ground, having been badly; affected by blight. In maayl instance® crops aire 'being ploughed in. ' .: • At Me.rth.yr County Court Mrs Wiiliaans, of Wr€«haim;, nxadle an unsuccessful claimi against Merthyr Town Association Football Club for c >mpensaition for, the death, of 'hen jon, who received fatal injuries mi a miaitoh. :

Some sensation was caused at the annual meeting of ratepayers at Bradwell, Derbyshire, by the statement of the rate collector that he was jut of pocket £.100 ■ throuigh paying rafc£s for poor people rather 1 than, submit them! to the hardship of legal proceedings. ■.;... ! The Government has _ received advices that 2.8 rifles bearing the New Zealaindi stamp havel been captured j fromi rebel hill tribesmen, Northwest India. These are evidently some of the old Sniders disposed of for a j song over two r yeaasi ago by the plejfjem/c/e. ;D)epia|rtm£init. i Mr Hans Mcdure, an old and respected resident of Waakino, died on Tuesdaiy. Deceased, who was wellknown throughout the- district, h: ul j laiterlyi -been compelled to keep to his '■bied. Liumtr. affection, accelerated by j ! working in a> battery- in the e&vly days, wais .the cause of death. \