LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8061, 20 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Of the prisoners received into the gaols of the colony last year 250 were unable to read or write. 75 could read, i 894 could read and write, and 20 only are described as possessing superior education. " Four good-'ooking Bona in the family." This, according to the Mauawatu Daily Tunes, is the last sentenoe of an advertisement for a girl for a dairy farm, which appears in a Now Zealand paper.

The matches in connection with the Hamilton Bowling Club's competition for the various trophies are now well under way. The first round of the first year players' match will be conoluded this week, and entries for test for the club's case of pipes, open to players classed 2, 3 and 4, oloae on Wednesday, November 28th. At a meating of the National Defence League on Friday arrangements were made for holding public meetings at Ponsonby, Parnell, Devonport, Hamilton, and Cambridge. It was also decided to make a display at the Auckland Agricultural Show at the end of next week, and to accept the services of a party of lady enrollers organised by Mrs E. Niool.

Mr James G. Wilson. President of the New Z jaland Farmers' Union, has issued a circular letter in which he advocates a sacrifice of time and money to c rnbat the proposals of the Government Land B 11. In the course of the circular he says that " the proposals in regard to leasehold are unsatisfactory, the effo.'ts of limitation would cause seriou-i financial trouble to all, and sDCialism would prevail unless we make a vigorous reply." The causes of the poverty which led to the granting of door relief to heals of f imiliei are given in a table attached to the report of the Inspector-General of Charitable Institutions for the lsat finan Cial year. The chief cause was "no male support " (widows and mothers ot llltvntimite children;, of which there were 203 cisea i sickness was responsible in 257 ease 3; 225 were due to old age; 149 to lack of employment of able-bodied persons; 100 to accident; no less than 79 to desertion of breadwinner; and 15 to shiftlessness.

A Remuera dairyman, Mr A. McCabe, was gored by a cw on Sunday morning, andjnairowly escaped sustaining fatal injuries. He was unexpectedly attacked by a young cow, which had previously been very quiet. The animal's horns caught him full in the chest, ripped his clothing, a thick twee I, and gave him a severe gash. Hi wss thrown into the air, und when attempting to rise after reaching the ground, was again rushed, 'this time the animal did not succeed in adding to the injuries, and Mr McCabe rolled beneath the stockyard fence into safety. He was bleading fro n the chest wound, and was dazed, but managed to walk home. Had the animal's horns caught him a few inches lower he would have sustained a more serious, if not f ital, wound.

Regarding the progress of the North Auckland railway extensiou work (says the star), the Railway League here have recently received information that the work ia being delayed owing to the slow progress if the contraot for the three bridges bridge-, it is said, heing decayed at Holleoßvillo, Mr G. L Poaoocke, chairman of the L--a h ue, wired lust week to the Minuter for Public Works, urging the desirability of hastening the completion of these contract-*, so tint the construction work further on should not be delayed. I'o this telegram Mr Peacocke has received the following reply: "Received telegram <e Hotea bridge'. Will endeavour to push contractors along. Tins is an instaace of delays in contract work as compared with work done by the Department, Kind regards. (Signod) Win. Hiil-Jones." During the porformanci of "Shamus O'Brien," by the Charles Verne r Dramatic Company, in the Theatre Royal, Wlnngarei, on Fri lay night (says the Herald correspondent), an unrehearsed incident of a very grotesque character threw the audience into convulsions of merriment. In the third act, when the pretormers were gruuped about " Mrs O'Brien's" dwelling, a sparrow, which had been fluttering about the interior of the theitre for some time, mt.de a sudden straight line of flight towards " Mrs O'Brien," and perched on the front of tint lady's bounit, resting there some time, lc via out of the 'jue=tijn t) prjc-jed with the play until the spirrow sought another resting place, and the luud laughter of the audieuoe had subsided, fclnrtly aft-r one of the lady pertormers was urging her lover to fly from impending danger. ''lt's no use,"said be, " I can't Hy, I'm not a sparrow."

Wo are in receipt from the Ot.igo Daily Ti Des Company, Limited, I tuned in, of a copy of a volume from the pen of Air F, W Short'and, barrister and solicitor, entitled "A Pocket Guide for Justicesavd Pulioe Olhcors." 'The work will be fouui extremely valuable by th' ee for v/h' ae use it is designed, while as a reference, to the various acts relating to police court pr ,- oedure the legal practitioner will find it uo le'9 serviceable. The want of a handbook giving information in a m »re concise an! get-it.u,ble f Tin than is provided by Ue

'•Justice of the Pfcxce," his been long feP, and such a want Mr Guide is cl culited to admirably fill. Police constable-', too, are often at a less to know how to aet in the many emergencies that crop up in the execution of their every day duty. The voluoie under review—while not burdened with a bewildering m,iss of statute law, gives the salient features of the Police Offences Act, and the various other enactments relating to the dutii s a-.d powers of the police officers, in a co: • ciie «nd intelligible form. Those officets who are called upoc to act as clerks > f courts will find the b ok an invaluable aid in the efficient discharge oil their duty. Mr Sho-tlani ha? contributed a welooma addition to legal and it sheu'd cummaud a wide use. " The Pucket Guidfor Justics and Folico Ollicers" is ded cated, by permission to Dr. A. McArthur, Stipmdiary Magistrate, of Wellington, and U published by the Otago Daily Times C'Jtup,.cy.

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Oq i uoday afternoon (writes an Otorohanga correspondent), as Mr H. Isaac was dossing the fori at the mill in a buggv, the vehicle capsized on a snag, throwing Mr Isaac and three email children who were with him into the Wnipa. Mr I-iaac managed to save two of the children, who had at once got into dcp water, but the third, a boy of six, had in the m antime Heated down the river about two hundred yards, where he was rescued by a native woman. How the child kept all oat seeing a miracle. Where the accident happened is a orossing ou the main road through tieNirth Inland and at all times dangerous, it is mora so just now, vel icles having to wind iu and out to avoid tlu snags and holes. There was a very good attendance at the Hamilton Uiptist Church last evening to hear the lecture hy the Kev. Joseph Hark, of the Auckland Tabernacle, on Fra Girolamo SavonaroU, the Italian preacher, reformer and democrat of the fifteenth century. B ,ru at Ferrara, he entered the Dominican order at the age of 10. much against the wish of his parents, and wnen thirty-six became prior of Han .Marco, Florence. Disgusted with the evils around him, he attached the Papal Court ia numerous writings, for which he was excommunicated, and losing his influence over the populace, was martyred by tire on May 23rd, 1498, at Florence. As a writer his influence is felt even to the present day, while his ende.vours to keep pure the Christian faith against corruption, are acknowledged to be of a far-reaching effect. Trie lecture list night was very interesting and instructive. Mr W. A. Graham oocupied the chair, in introducing the lecturer, gave some interesting historical facta, concerning the site on which the Baptist Church stands, and congratulated the denomination on having built a church on a pece of ground memorable in the early history of the Waikato.

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