ADVANCES TO SETTLERS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4339, 29 April 1896, Page 6

ADVANCES TO SETTLERS

The total number of applications for loans under the Advances to Settlers Act up to the 31st March last was 1,799, and the amount authorised to be advanced was £539,407. The advances in the different districts were as follow :—: —

A London young man, under twenty-one, was sued for the payment of fees for tuition in shorthand and type-writing. The defendant pleaded infancy, and the judge held that the defence was a good one, there being no doubt that tuition in shorthand and typewriting waß a luxury and not a necessity. Taranaki citizens certainly are not j lacking in public spirit. Recently thirteen of them guaranteed £100 each for the purpose of purchasing a powerful crane for the harbor protective works. A total guarantee of £2,000 was requirrd. " That foolish comp. set up my article on woman's garb as woman's ' grab,' " complained the unmarried editor. "It all amounts to the same thing," said the married editor glancing sadly at the caver nous depths of his empty pocket book. The folding envelope was first used in the year 1839. A man named Francis South, who claimed to have been a barrister on the West Coast of New Zealand, received a month's impri- . sonment at Sydney the other day for begging. A marriage after death has taken place in Russia. A young Jewess having died suddenly, her relatives decided that, as she was betrothed, she should be married, and thus "escape the disgrace of entering the other world as a single woman." The ceremony took place in the cemetery, after which the body was returned to the coffin and lowered into the grave.]

Amount Applications, authorised, Auckland 264 £67,407 Taranaki 238 70,735 Hawke'sßay ... 135 34,770 Wellington ... 427 159,255 Marlborougb. ... 74 23,735 Nelson 32 11,385 Canterbury ... 173 26,340 Westland 10 2,265 Otago 446 143,605