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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5542, 29 March 1910, Page 2

Particulars of a Sydney tragady will ba found on tha first page, The reading matter on the fourth pegs consists of Agricultural Items.

The quarterly meeting of Court Little John will be held to-night.

Attention isdirocted to the alterations in the railway time table, whioh take effect on Friday next. Mr O. Holder has reoeived a hive of Italian bees from the Government farm at Auokland.

A number of visitors who have been spending their Easter holidays in Waipawa, took their departure by the express, this morning. The glorious weather experienced for tome weeks oame to an end yesterday morning, and showers fell throughout the day. Outdoor amusements were marred in consequence of the rain.

We have been asked to give a warning to those persons who indulge in wholesale trout poaching. If the praotioe is not discontinued immediately proceedings will follow.

“It is a matter for regret that the salaries are not adequate to the services rendered by our secondaiy teachers,” states the aunual report of the iuspeotor to the Wellington Education Board.

A ninth of an acre of land, upon which a building is ereoted, changed hands in Hawera recently at £760. Allowing that the building is worth £2OO, the land value works out at over £4OOO an acre. The section is in a side street.

Sir Rupert Clark, of Bolinda Vale, Victoria (flock 40,000) has, according to recent advices, obtained wonderful prioes for his wool this season on the London market, one shipment of greaßy wool fetohing up to 19d per lb, and the other up to 19Jd.

In November last a small quantity of coal was supplied to H.M.S. Challenger by the Paparoa Coal Company for trial purposes. It has now been decided to make a more extensive trial of the coal, and for that purpose a shipment of 600 tons is being put on board the warship.

As an example of the immense number of rabbits infesting the district this season (says the Wyudham Farmer), it may be stated that one agonoy purchased 13,000 last week. The reoord individual catches of rabbits locally have been 203 in one instance and 213 in another for one night’s trapping. Tha Leader of the Opposition and his first lieutenant do not see eye to eye on the question of age for compulsory training. Mr .lames Allen, who is regarded as a military expert in Parliament, thinks, with Lord Kitchener, that the age should be extended to twenty five. Ten shillings a day for water were being paid by some few people in Balclutha prior to a good shower soma few days ago, whioh replenished in some degree the exhausted water tanks. The season had throughout been an exceptionally dry one, and rain was often eagerly looked for.

In order to try and arrive at finality in connection with the olaims of old soldiers, the Government has arranged that all applications that are received shall be enquired into by the stipendiary magistrate in whose district the applicant resides. The report of the magistrate is to be furnished to the Government.

Chicken-pox and whooping cough have been making their presenoe felt in some of the country schools of the Wellington district. At Shannon the lower classes of Bohool children had suffered severely, according to the report of the truant officer (Mr Dineen). The two ailments named had reduced attendances at many sohools in the Manawatu and Wairarapa, and Pahiatua ohildren have been the latest sufferers.

While in touch with the English south coast the R.M.S. lonio used her wireless telegraphy with great suooess, the instrument and plant working most satisfactorily. By the time the lonic had got well into the North Atlantio, however, she was boyond the sphere of influence of wireless stations. But the tests as applied wore most successful from London to the time the Bhip was well away out on her voyage. A somewhat unusual sight was afforded those on board the Shaw, Savill liner lonio during her passage from the Cape to Hobart. When on the longitude of the Croze's Islands, and some distanoe to the northward of the group, a large dead whale, estimated to be about thirty feet in length, was sighted. Gulls, albatrosses, mollymawks, Cape pigeons, and other birds that abound in the vicinity of the Orozets covered the floating caroase, and were having a great feast on the blubber and fat. It is supposed that the whale might have escaped after being wounde'd by a whaling party, or that possibly it had been worsted in an encounter with another member of his speoies, A surprise was sprung upon the members of the Eltham Drainage Board last week, states the Argus, when the clerk (Mr W. J. Tristram) put forward an unusual suggestion, namely, that his salary should be reduced. The position was that when a lot of extra work was caused in connection with loans raised by the board, tho clerk’s salary was increased from £25 to £4O a year, and now that loan moneys have been expended and there is comparatively little work to do the clerk thought that his salary should be reduoed to the old figure. The ohairman said it was something unique for anyone to ask for a reduction of salary. He had never heard of such a thing before; it was probably a reoord for New Zealand, He recognised that there was less work to do now, but he had thought of letting the clerk’s present salary go on to the of the end year, as Mr Tristram had doDe work in connection with the loans for which he had not been paid. The board agreed to aooept the olerk’s suggestion and reduce the salary to £26 as from Ist April, whioh is the beginning of the next financial year.

J J. Petersen’s four-roomed dwelling house and contents in Station-road, Matamau, were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night about 1130. The origin of the fire » unknown. Mr Peterson had a narrow escape from losing bia life. Insurance—building £BS and furniture £7O in the Commercial Union

A quaint aspeot of tha young Maori mind was brought under the notice of Bishop Grimes when he was in Rotorua a short time ago. All the sisters and brothers who had charge of schools there impress upon the Maori ohildren the fact that it is wrong to beg for pennies from strangers. He mat a few ohildren, with whom ha entered into conversation. After a time they told him that some of their oomradas begged for pennies. "But we,” they added, “ are not allowed to beg ” It was a somewhat difficult porition for the bishop. He aould not, of course, give them any pennies, and, at the same time, he could hardly ignore the very plain hint. He therefore tactfully compromised by taking the ohildren into the nearest shop, and buyiog for them something which rejoiced their hearts. Persons (other than those so designated by statute) olasssd as “ undesirables ” by the Rules of Racing do not become “trespassers” on a racecourse until the license conveyed by their tioket of admission has been revoked by their being ordered off Therefore they must be ordered off a second time. Buck is the offset of a decision given by Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., at Wellington, in the oases in which J. M. Cummings and J. H. Williams were oharged, under separate informations, with trespassing on the Trentham raosooursa during the progress of the Wellington Racing Club’s January meeting His Worship io giving his judgment, recalled that each defendant bought a tioket which admitted him to the course unconditionally. His entry was therefore lawful. When he was on eaoh day told to leave it oould be said that he was at that instant a trespasser. In Loughton v. Guinoess it had been decided that b person must be a trespasser at the time the warning was given to bring him within the statute. In tho present cases it had not been proved that either defendant was a trespasser when he was warned to leave the oourse. If either or both were trespassers, then there was no proof of a seoond warning and a refusal to leave. Recently a Sydney auctioneer was the viotim of a olever swindle. He had a property at Watson’s Bay for sale, and a young man oalled on him, and stated that his father was an American millionaire about to visit Australia, and had instruotad him to acquire a property with a water frontage. The property at Watson’s Bay, of whioh there was a photograph in the auctioneer’s window, would, he said, just suit. The auctioneer and the prospective buyer visited the property and the price fixed was £4600. They returned to the oity, and the man wrote an open cheque for £IOOO, to olinoh the transaction. Both apparently satisfied, they lunched together at an adjoining hotel, where the youth filled in a cheque for several pounds, but the hotelkeeper demurred to take the cheque, and the auctioneer endorsed it. The money was then paid over by the auctioneer. Next morning the owner of the property visited the auctioneer’s office, and, on being shown the oheque for £IOOO, instructed the auctioneer to cash it, retain his commission of £125, and pay the balanoa into his (the owner’s) account. A lad was sent round to the bank, and returned with the information that there was no Buoh acoonnt, and almost simultaneously came a message from the hotelkeeper that his cheque had been returned.