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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5705, 27 April 1911, Page 2

Commercial news will be found on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page consists of oables and the results of school committee elections The total number of persons who reoorded their votes yesterday was 459.

The Education Departmont has refused tho Hawke’s Bay Education Board’s request for a grant towards a teacher’s residence at Wanstead.

At the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court Alexander McKenzie pleaded guilty to having acted as a bookmaker and laid totalisator odds at the lliooarton racecourse at Euuter. Ho was fined £3O and oosts on the first charge and £2O and costs on the second, the alternative being threo months’ and two mouths’ imprisonment respectively. At Blenheim, on Wednesday, a number of cases were heard in which settlors were charged with failing to eradicate sweet-briar. Two oases were dismissed, aud others were adjourned to allow export evidence to bo oalled for the purpose of distinguishing between swoet briar and dog-uoGe.

“ Within twelve months of the installation of eleotrio plant at Lftko Coleridge,” said Mr T. E. Taylor in an election address at Christchurch, “ 1 do not think there will be a smoke-stack offending tho oity.” Mr Taylor added that Christchuroh was destined to bo the garden oity of New Zealand, and no other place oould hope to compete with it.

A meeting of those interested in the Home Rule movement is called for Saturday, 6th May. A special meeting of members of the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge is oa’led for tonight. Mr H. Webley draws attention to Mistook of “ Morley made ” stockings and gloves

To show what a market there must be for apples in South America, a shipment of about twelve thousand bushel oases was brought by the Taiuui from Hobart for transhipment by the Arawa. At a sale at Levin, last week, a well framed picture of a New Zealand contingent in the Boer war—tho New Zealand Hill ’ inoident—went begging at 2s, and a framed pioture of Mr Beddon started at eighteen-penoe and found a purohasor at 4s. Such is fame ! A meeting, the importance of which should appeal to all who have the progress of the town at heart, will be hold in the Old Library, at 2 30 p ra on Saturday, when the question of the formation of a Chamber of Commerce will be discussed. It is hoped that a large and representative gathering will be present,

The labour laws of Now Zealand aro becoming a byword and aroprnnoh. At Auckland last week a number of butchers were fiued for commencing work an hour earlier iu the morning thgn the award allowed, namely, six o’clock. It was ex plained that the men staited early in order to get through their work in good time, and thatlhey received time off in the afternoon In spite of this, the foreman was fiued £5 aud costs £2 2«, and the others Is and 10s 6d oosts each. The employers, who did not know the men started oarly, were fined £L in each oase. A strange sight waß witnessed at the Mount Moriah Hospital, New York, when 200 penniless men attended the institution in response to an advertisement offering £5 for a quart of human blood. A tine 1 strapping sailor was selected as the ore most physically fit for tho bleeding process to whioh the doctors desired to subject him, aud for about half an hour blood flowed from his artories to the veins of the womau who was dying of internal hemorrhage. The patient revived wonderfully, aud is reported to be in a fair way towards recovery.

A farmer in the North Otago district, who was summoned in a maintenanoe case in the Duoadiu Polioe Court, gave some of his experiences as a result of the drought. It had been the worst eeaeon he had ever experienced in that district. Not one thing but everything had been a failure. He had had to sell cows whioh were worth £7 or £8 a head at the beginning of the season at 10s a head, whioh was just the price of the hide Ho had been working sixteen hours a day and was then unable to make ends meet. There were thousands of farmers with families in New Zealand at the present time who would have to live on £1 a week. For the last two years he had been unable to pay wages to his sou and daughter, who worked for him on the farm. Not a farmer bad made money in the Oamaru district this year ; many had been ruined—in fact, they had only had enough rain there lately to lay the dußt. Fashion requires that the form shall be slightly ourved at the waist aud over the hips. For illustration see Warner’s latest Corset Models, of ell drapers.* Ask your looal draper or storekeeper to show you the copyrighted Roslyn writiug pad for 6d.*