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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5707, 2 May 1911, Page 2

Census returns and an articla entitled "An Infatuated Girl ” will be found on the first page. Tha reading matter on the fourth page oonsists of a report of the meeting of the Waipawa County Building Sooiety,

A meeting will be held in the Sawyer’s Arms Hotel, Tikokino, on Saturday, for the purpose of considering the formation of a Sheap Dog Trial Club. Calling to colleot the quarter's rent a Hammersmith bailiff, receiving no answer to his knookiog, found a way into i he house through the window, and took possession. Afterwards be found the oooupant hanging behind the door dead.

Messrs O. H. Cranby and Co., timber, coal and general shipping agents, Napier, draw attention to a list ot their agencies and goods, which is worthy of perusal Whipping maohines, whioh hold boys immovab'e while they receive from fifty to two hundred lashes, are said to have been used at the Minnesota State Training Sobool, U.S A. An enquiry has been ordered by the legislators. In a potato-growing district like North Otago it should not be necessary to import potatoes for local consumption, yet (remarks the Oamaru Mail) this is what is happening at the present time owing to the wholesale destruction of the crops by the potato moth. A fatal case of honey-poisoning is reported from PiriDgia, up north, the victim baing Mr Harry. Turner, aged 71. He, with his wife and five grand children, had all partaken of wild honey. All were taken ill, Mr Turner being unconscious for some hours before his death.

The total Post and Telegraph revenue for the March quarter was £250,513, a* compared with £224,584 for the corresponding period of 1910. For the four centres the figures were :—Auckland £44,034, Wellington £49,276, Christohuroh £26,749, Dunedin £18,141. Uoder the heading, “ A Nut for Candidates,” Stratford Post publishes the following in its correspondence column : —Stratford in 1901—Population 2027 ; rates £671. Stratford in 1911—Population 2637 ; rates £3294. Inoroast— Population 30 per cent; rates 400 per cent. And still we are not happy ! The Advocate elates that the new premises of the Bank of New South Wales in Dsnoevirke will, when completed, form one of the handsomest buildings prob ably in Hawke’s Bay, and while adding to the appearanoe of the towD, it is a monument attesting the bank’s faith in the future of the district The building will probably be out of the contractor’s hands iu a fortnight or three weeks The Warsaw police are confronted with two remarkable murder mysteries. A woman’s head was found in the snow in the park, and at the sheds time the police iu Omsk repined that a box re oeived by rail from Warsaw oontaiued a headless body. It was naturally assumed that the head and body belonged to the same person, but when the box with the body was sect back from Omsk it was discovered to be that of a man. A well known Masterton station owner proposes that the managers of the Masterton Technical School should unite with the A. and P Association in an endeavour to establish learners’ classes for shearing and the care of the shearing machines. A great difficulty is experienced at present, it iB stated, by many young fellows who are desirous of leafniog to use the maohiues, but have not the opportunity.

A Dunedin tram-conductor was incapacitated last mouth by comiDg in contact with a long pin in a lady’s hat in a oar, whereby his eye narrowly escaped injury, and the City Council has agreed to pay him full pay (£2 16s) and doctor’s expenses (£1 10s during the period he was absent from duty. The suggestion was made that a by-law might yet be necessary to prohibit the use of these hatpins in tram-oars.

A doctor in Yokohama, Japan, has built himself a novel house with a view to guarding against microbes. The walls of this remarkable edifioe are made of blocks of glass. They are built hollow, the interstices being filled up with a solution of salts and soda, whioh is intended to regulate the temperature of the interior. The windows are hermetic ally closed, and air is only admitted after passing through filters. Ask your local draper or storekeeper to show you the copyrighted Roslyn writing pad for 6d.* Fashion requires that the form shall be slightly curved at the waist and over the hips. For illustration see Warner’s latest Corset Models, of all drapers.*