NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 434, 7 November 1907, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Sydney Professional Rugby League is adopted a code of laws which inudes the payment of players at a rate at exceeding 10s per day for loss of mc or salary, with 7s 6d a day when laying outside, and 5s when playing iside, their own State. Personal cxenses are also provided for, as well as le payment of medical expenses and £2 week to players while injured or incaacitated from following their usual jcupations.

Returns from fifty counties of the tatc of Missouri show that the shipment

f eggs for the year 1906 was 49,258,031 ozen, amounting to £1,477,740. There ere shipped from the same counties 2,781,7861 b oi poultry, which brought ) the shippers £1,677,293, or a grand rial of £3,155,038. This official report lows that if the remaining sixty-four aunties had reported their poultry protects, the results would justify that fcate in substituting the hen for the bear t the State's coat of arms. Waitotara is concerned over a montrosity in the form of twin lambs, joined >geiiher at the briskets. The combinaon, says New Plymouth News, has ight legs, all properly placed, and two eads, one of which is normal, while the ther is a most extraordinary looking pecimen, being almost totally unlike a imb's head. It is of large size, has two ioutbs, two noses, and three tongues. iis also a peculiar fact that the ewe So gave birth to a third lamb, which is f'the usual build and size, and is doing "ell.

•A Feilding resident was the victim of kad last week which cost him £9, says" 3'e Star. He received a cablegram from ydney, .purporting to be signed by his rother, asking him to forwardimmediCely £5 and, further, to arrange his pasage back to New Zealand. He promtly ibied oyer the money, and also paid for ie passage as requested. He subseuently found out, greatly to his disgust, aatsqme sharp individual had gained Ye ; information from his brother that e had relatives in Feilding, and afterwards cabled', the demands. ;The late Ambrose I. Thomas, of Chicgo, once told a story about two doctors. ,;To illustrate my point," he said, apro--6/s of an advertising error, "I'll tell you bout my friend Bones, Bones was taka. ill, and, his family physician being at of town, a specialist was called jiut the family physician unexpectedly and be and the specialist entfed Bones' ehairiber together. Th6y Kind the man in a high fever and parally unconscious. Each put his hand Mer the bedclothes to feel Bones's ulse, and each accidentally got hold of ie other. 'He has typhoid,' said the rst physician. 'Nothing of the kind,' |id the other. ' He's only drunk.' " ( vA. number of years back a burly westrn Kansas man gave his nephew, a lad E fifteen years, an unmerited chastisig. The boy promised his assailant a ke compliment when he became a man, ad he did not forget the words uttered i that heat of passion. The uncle was pout_ his duties on the farm one day i-st.winter when a husky six footer came p /and gave him a glorious thumping. Ik-was. the fifteen year-old nephew, only j,*'.years older. Then the uncle sued ir a thousand dollars for personal injures inflicted. An unsympathetic jury fuldn't see it that way and he took the to the Supreme Court. In April |at august body handed down a decision firming the lower court's decision.

|Phe Advances:to Settlors Act has been l/iising some unrest among tradespeople i, Horowhenua"•district. It is stated (tat certain holders of leases-in-perpet-ity there are In 'the wav of obtaining oods, such as timber and bricks, imrpving their holdings with them, obijuing loans .from .the Advances to Settsrs Department on'those improvements, nd then absolutely refusing to pay for lie -goods. On occount of the form ruler which these tenants hold their roperties, tliey cannot be distrained pon, and take advantage of their posion. The matter was discussed by the Eorowhenua County Council on Saturay, when several councillors hotly atacked the Government for its passive ttitude. in the matter, declaring that it /as a party to the spoliation of tradeseople in the district. The Council resIved that, the attention of the Governlent be called to the unjust position fadespeople are placed in by Crown tennts of the kind in question," and that it e requested to so amend the Advances j Settlers Act as to prevent the recur&ice of such cases,