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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5706, 29 April 1911, Page 2

Commercial news will be found on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page oonßists of a report of the meeting of the Education Board. The Railway Department draw atten tion to the conveyance of goods to oartaiu railway stations, where the volume of traffic is small.

Mr Abraham Nation, a prominent sports promoter and raoiog man, has met his death in a peculiar manner in New York. He was playing with a pet bull dog, and allowed the animal to liok his hand. A slight cut must have receive! poison, for three months later the unfortuuate man developed hydrophobia, and died an awful death.

A New York ohauffsur was suspeoted of stealing a ring. He was searched by detectives, but without avail, and in his elation at their failure he began to whistle the popular song, '‘l’ve got rings on my fingers and bells on my toes ” One of the deteotives took the oue, and found the ring on one of his toes. He then pleaded guilty. The average thrashing tallies for the thrashing mills io the Ashburton County for the season closed are about 43,000 bushels of mixed grain, whioh is fully 20,000 Bhort of last year’s. This represents a shortage of 800,000 buebels for the Ashburton County, the falling off being mainly represented by wheat. The Levin paper reports that serious bush fires oocurred in that district on Sunday evening. There were exuiting soenes near Bartholomew’s mill, whioh was just saved after a hard fight with the flames. Fires raged throughout the Village Settlement, and many of the settlers removed their furniture. Fires also ooourrod in the Shannon distriot.

Applications for regisaration under the Defenoe Aot, 1909, are not ooming in as promptly as anticipated. The attention of all parsons required by the Aot to enrol is oalled to an advertisement appearing in this issue, and we trust it will not be found necessary to enforoe the penalties mentioned therein for failure to enrol. Forms of registration may be obtained at auy post office or polioestation.

At the recent Presbyterian Synod, in Dunedin, the Waitahuna congregation applied for a new manse, and it was stated that as the borer had got hold of the old manse the people were going to set fire to it. The idea of a big blaze tiokled the reverend Bynodsmen, and they smiled. One member ventured to ask whether the minister would be let out first. Another wanted to know if the sermons would ba left in; and the solemn remark from an elder who never twitched a musola : “ I think so, thay are probably dry enough,” moved the Synod to mirth. A market is being opened for what hitherto has been to some extent a waste produot. A consignment of feathetß of fowls and ducks was recently Feat Home by the Agricultural Department, and realised from 2|d to Is 7d per lb. The latter price was obtained for white duok feathers. Since the sale enquiries bava been made by buyers as to whether there is a prospect of larger and regular sup plies of feathers—especially duok—-being obtained from New Zealand. If ship ments were regularly made there is every prospect that the demand for them would bo good. In fining a bookmaker named M’Ken zie £SO, at Christohuroh, Mr Bishop, S M , Baid : to this as far as lies in my power It is possible that I oannot stop bookmaking, but I am going to try ” Tbe magistrate added that be had nothing to do with the moral aspect of the matter. “ As long as the Legislature continues to legalise the totalisator and legislate against bookmakers so long will I uphold the law,” he said. “ The only difference that will be made will be when there is an alteration iu the point of view taken of tbe whole matter by the Legislature.” It is understood that the defendant is unable to pay the fines inflictod, aggregating £SO, and that he will spend some months in gaol as the alternative,

A question of importance to school committees, who pay a secretary, oropped up at the meeting of tbe Education Board, last Thursday. In reply to Mr Morgan,the ohairman said no aommittee could psy a secretary out of tbe oapitation grant, for the purposes of that grant were defined by Government regulation. The Aot provided that a person, other than a member of a sobool aommittee, could be paid to aot as secretary, but his salary must be found by voluntary contributions or from the proceeds of entertainments The capitation grant was given for specific purposes and it was as wall that sahool committees should understand this, for the board would not permit their grants to be used by sohool committoes for other purposes than those defined by the Government regulations.

Sam Miller, a resident of Wilbesbarre, Pennsylvania, bas issued a ohallange to the world at large to oompete with him in an eating oontest. He declares that he will eat more in a given time than any other man liviug. Millar declares that his reoord ns an eater has never bean squalled. According to one paper, be onoe ate 144 fried eggs for breakfast In a pie eating oontest be disposed of 48 fivepenny pies. His latest feat is that of eating five chickens and fifty waffies, and drinking four quarts of coffee while the cooks prepared more food, than con Burning five pies, three di zeo small oabes, with two jars of piokles to give this miscellaneous assortment of food a spicy flavour. What a obanoe a mao like that would have in our gaols, where we ohoke our crooks off by feeding ’em to death.