LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8058, 16 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

♦ Many of the Maoris in the Exhibition fa are sull'eriog severely from influenzi. Some propose returning to Kotorua, the climate at Christchurch being too chilly for thorn. A Morrison's liush schoolboy of thirteen years has just completed a six years' unbroken record of attendance at the Kaitara School, He has walked wet or line, a distance of two miles since he was seven years of age, says the Pahiatua Herald. Sixty single desks of the most approved modern kind have just been imported from America for the Carterton High School at a cost of XI each. The News is informed that there is nothing to prevent the supply being not in New Zealand except the consideration of slightly increased cost. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., told a Dunedin audience the other evening that the first time ho had ever been to a race meeting, or seen a jockey astride a horse, was at the Now Zealand Cup meeting, lie added that he had tak.-n notes of what he thin beard and saw, and that these, with others, had gone "into his luggage" for future perusal, digestion, assimilation and public Hon. The Hamilton Ciicket Association are receiving a visit from Waihi representatives on S iturday next. They arrive by the 11.5 a.m. excursion train and the match will start at 11.30 sharp. The following players have beeu selected to represent 11 iinilton : H. S. Elgood, L. Furte:cue, J. Sutton, S. J. Fortescue, S. Ueid, W. Livingstone, \V. H. Worsley, N. Reid,.'. Potneroy W. Turbott, H. Johnson. Emergency, H. Prince. Players are re- ■ lUiisted to be on the ground punctually. The Taranaki Herald is responsible for the following :—" When lovely woman stoops to write upon the sex question in relation to animals, she is prone to get mixed. On page 319 of Miss Marie Corelli's last work,' The Treasure of Heaven,' one of the characters remarks, ' I gut an evening job of a shilling a week for bringing home eight Highland bull heifers trim pasture. The man who owned them valued them very highly.' " What is supposed to be a caae of suicide occurred at Waiuku yesterday. L). Cotton, steward of the s s, Weka, shot himself dead at 7.30 in the morning in his cabin. F. Evans, engineer of the Elsie, which was lying alongside, heard, the report and at ones went on board the Weka. He found deceased lying dead with the butt end of a gun resting od a seat and also a stick with a small loop of string. The body was conveyed to the local hotel, and an inquest tollowa today. At the inqueit touching the death of Walter John Felminghatn, bootmaker, 37 years of age, of Dunedin, who died after swallowing carbjlic acid, a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. In deceased's pooket was a scrap of paper, on which was written in pencil, " I have died for love; for loving one who has never loved me. Be good to Wat and Elvia." Wat and Elm are deceased's children. The wife of deceased, who living apart from him, said he was a man who was worried aud up-et over the smallest mitter. He had repeatedly, when in a temper, threatened to destroy himself. He was a native of I asmaniu. The Feilding Star's Rata correspondent says ;—What struck the writer as being a rec.rd in big breeding was brought under his noiice some few days ago. A purebred Yorkshire sow, the property ot Mr W. Hammond, some eight months ago gave birth to a litter of eleven, which the owner subsequently disposed ot at 2;Js 6i each, bight wo-tks ago the same sow presented her owner with another litter of nine, which have again changed hands • s weanere at 10s per head. Therefore, this particular sow has brought in a return of XlfJ 17s 6d to her O'vner for nine months, and when it is considered that she gained her feed in grass only, the profit above indicated must he considered handsome. A sort of fruit famine is following on the heels of the potato shortage. A leading Dunedin wholesale man says the decision of the Cabinet to destroy all South Sea Island fruit affected with the fruit maggot is bumping up the prices. Last month some oranges went up as high as 3d each, wholesale price, and this month's inpply has been selling at not less than 13s to Us perc-ieej also wholesale, Rarotonga is the island free from the fly. Tonga is particularly bad. When a shipment is condemned, the importer loses freight, cartage and other charges, and the shipper loses his fruit. The worst of it is that one bad lot infects other lots on the voyage, and when careful and hunest shippers get bitten in that way, they naturally won't ship again, §p up gees the price of fruit. The Government graders or inspectors should overhaul the fruit at the Islands, not in Now Zealand, and the shippers would bear the Cost; that would end the trouble, Mr Win. Ritchie, the burly chairman of the Hospital .and Charitable I Aid \ Hoards, evidently possesses tint faculty which has tnide the name of Sherlock Holmes, famoui, says the Wangauui Chronicle. Some weeks ago a cab collided with the big arc light in front of tho Hospital, and wrecked it. The driver of thecib was not ideutifled, and all ellorts to discover the delinquent proved fruitless. A few days ago Mr Kitchie was walking doivn the Avenue, and, noticing a cabman, was seized by the detective instinct. Going up to the cabby, Mr Kitchie iaid his hand on his shoulder and demanded, " \Vhat are you going to do about that lamp.-" "I ouldn't help it," was the Surprising answer; " the horses bolted and I could not hold them," Mr Kitchie communicated this to the Board on I'uesday, and the Board decided to lend tho owner of the cab the bill of costs for repairing the lamp. At a quarter past nine yesterday morning (says the Star) tho Onehunga police were advised that a young man, evidently m an abnormal mental condition, was wandering in Victoria-street near the o'd Victoria Hotel. Constable Capper visited the place and found a young mm, apparently about 25 years of age, who seemed to have no knowledge of wh to ho waa. I'he only information that he c u'.d give was that his name was Jjhn Hodges, but beyond that his memory was a perfect blank. Dr. Tre-sidor was called in, and on examination of the young man found him in a very weak state, and evidently sullering from aberration of the brain, lie therefore ordered his removd to the hospital. The youug fellow is evidently rec-ntly come from Dunedin, as his clothes boar the mark of a Dunedin tai or. A purse containing 17s was found in his pockets, but they contained nothing which would give a clue as to his identity. At the close of laat ses-ieu it was notice able that quite a number ot the Ministers and members were very unwell (says the Eltham Argus). It being the last stages of the session, Ministers could not absent themselves from their accustomed fonts, hue struggled to keep on their feet, determining to take a rest as soon as the sessi< n doeed. On the last day of tho session, the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones, the Hon. Mr Car roll, and the Hon. Mr Millar were utterly unfit to bo out of their beds, but wrapped in heavy overcoats kept to their posts until the session closed. The Hon. C lonel Pitt, Leader of the Legisktive Council, was also ill, but appeatel to be recovering. But now comes the aftermath. The Hon. Mr Hall Jones is ill and has just loft his bed. The Hon. Mr Carroll is sutf-ring severely from an attack of pneumonia and is in a really dangerous e.ndition. The Hon. Mr Millar, who returned to his home in Dunedin, has had a relapse, and is in the hands of his doctor, and the Hon. Colonel Pitt is again indisposed. We also loarn that Sir William Steward is seriously ill and is in a private uo-oital in Wellington. "Ace you going to the Exhibition ?" seems to ho tiio burning question of the day. Tho question which really interests you Mr Clothes wearer is—" Have you seen the exhibition of lovely suitings in V. Houghton's window ? " They are all at I one pr : ce, ninety-five shillings. It will Cjstyou nothing to look, and it will save y mr money to order one. If there is no- i thing in tho window to suit your ta=b , | just w:ilk inside and you will be suited at V, Houghton's up-to-date tailoring esrab j lishtnent, Hamilton. 6 j PREVENT DESPONDENCY. Chamberlain's Stomach and Lwor Tab- . 1 it.s will brace up the nerves, banish sick . headaches, prevent desp.iudency, and in- I vig. rate the whole system. Much easier to tako than piiis. For Bale by W. Day, ; Hamilton; Tuos. We!ls ; Cambridge; Geo.; M A. Ahier, To Awamutu; oreen and; CoiUbiook, Ny.wruawauia j Chan. 1 alius « Taumaruuui; T, ix, Chapman, Eihikihi, |

'I he members of the Hamilton Municipal Hand are requested to meet at 1 p.m. sharp at the show grounds, Claudelands, tomorrow, Saturday, 17th inst. Those who attended the enjoyable coocait given a week cr two ago by the Salvation Army lasses' band will no dsubt make a point of being present at the Hamilton Town Hall to-night, when they api ear for the second time. In addition to civingan excellent; programme, the bind I as the merit of working in aid of a cau e which we consider to ba one worthy if the Oorlial support of all anxious to see the social system purified of much that d - grades and disgraces mankind. A fine sheep killed for mutton the other d«y on Mr C. Sayer's farm at Da'etield, was found to have fattened under unusu d difficulties. Firmly embedded in the root of the tongue was a jlarge pig ring, which had evidently been in that position f >r some time, for the flesh where the points had entered were perfectly healed. The round bow of the ring was under the tongue, the points only being in the flesh.