NEWS & NOTES

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1557, 15 May 1903, Page 4

NEWS & NOTES

A tarty of North Canterbury farmers have sold up their farms and stock, and intend to leave for the Argentine shortly. The whole world will be pasted over ' Union made ' only when men have learned to hate liberty and love tyranny. New York Nation. Pilnnocent par. in the Ellesmere Guardian:—' A skeleton key has been picked up in Southbridge. The owner can have same on communicating with the police.' It is anticipated that something like 1,700,000 names will be registered in all the Australian States when the compiling of the Federal electoral rolls is completed. Irishmen feel towards King Edward as they have never felt towards any King since they held the crumbling walls of Limerick for King Shamus. Judge Adams, K.C. Rev. S. Currie is announced to deliver a religious address in Bnlclutha, to be followed next evening by Rev. B. Ginger. Currie and Ginger! A hot-and-strong pair, surely! Mrs Ismay, the widow of Mr T. H. Tsraay, founder of the White Star line, has offered a gift of £IO,OOO towards the Liverpool Cathedral Building Fund, and a window in memory of her husband. The estimated population of the colony on March 31st, including Maoris, and those persons resident in the Cook and other Pacific Islands, was 570,277, an increase of G 913 since December 31st, 1902. Government railway carriages are shortly to be fitted with an ingenious contrivance which will enable an occupant to shift the back of his seat by automatic action instead ot by the somewhat cumbrous reversal process now in vogue. Melbourne boasts of 1057 hotels, and not 50 of that number are hotels of accommodation or foodsupplying hostelries. The retail liquor trade is principally in the hands of women licenoees, the number being 505 males and 552 females. In addition about 2000 barmaids are engaged in dispensing drink. As an instance of Mr Kingston's cast-iron method of administering the Commonwealth Customs Act, it is said that even when a merchant himself pointed out to the Customs Department that he had made an error, and accidentally defrauded the revenue, ho was not allowed to refund the amount without first appearing in the police court. The profit comes from the eggs — not from the carcase of the bird (says Mr Hyde, the poultry expert). There is really no ' best breed,' but the secret of the business was breeding from the best layers. Poultry farmers should only breed from the besb, in imitation of the Americans, and in time they would have hens that would lay from 175 to 200 eggs.a year. Thus muaes the Northern Luminary : ' Just twelve months ago a returned trooper from South Africa would not be permitted to part with his field service hat after being discharged, more especially if the said trooper belonged to a feather headgeared company. The scene has now changed. Little brother Bill —poor little cuss—who comes in for all the left-off clothing, now dons the shapeless thing. Even he is allowed to play marbles with it on. Pause ere you cross your legs. This may sound strange advice, but listen to this : At Woolwich barracks a few weeks ago a man was examining an injured heel with the aid of a hand-mirror, and with his right leg crossed over the left, when the thigh broke with a loud report. He was taken to the hospital, where he died soon after. In certain circumstances, said the doctor at the inquest, the act of crossing the legs would be quite sufficient to cause such an injury. Until you know exactly what those circumstances are, therefore, pause ere you cross your legs. Sir William Russell at a recent meeting of the Hawke's Bay Education Board meeting, spoke strongly on the neglect of the Government to provide tho Board with sufficient money for building purposes. Many the school houses were, he said, handed over to tho Board in au unfinished state, and the Board was called upon to complete them out of its small grant. The Board was not being treated justly. He recommended that at every meeting it should pass a resolution affirming that the funds placed at its disposal were utterly inadequate, and that the Government was not fulfilling its duty, having the' Education Act on the Statute Book, in not giving the Board adequate funds to carry on its work properly.