LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8088, 27 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The payments made by the New /, jaland Dairy Association, Ltd., on the 21n init,, for milk supplied during November, totalled JBIBSSI 19s i)d. This constitutes a record. The sales upon the local market for the same month were also larger this joar thin during any November in the history of the bunnesi.

The Town Hall was very well fiiled last night, when Mack's new pictures were shown to a mo.-.t appreciative audience. A now tet of films of the Sin Franc.sco disaster was shown. A lepresentation of the football match, New Zealand v. (Ham rgan, aroused great interest, as did a number of "industrial" films, including a line one showing the life of a railway engine from the work-liops to the rails A number of comic pictures weie also shown.

At the end of Wednesday's canva-s seventy-three master grocers and store keepers of Dunedin had appended their signatures to ihe petition iu favour of altering the weekly statutory half-holiday from Wednesday to Saturday atternoon. Ka'kora, Koslyn, N rth-Kast Valley, North Dunedin, and South Dunedin, as well as as the city itself, are well represented and it i? (says the " Otago Daily Times") interesting to note that five bottle-liceuße storekeepers are included among the supporters of the change. One of the workmen handling a bale of tow arrived in one of the Wellington Harbour lioara's sheds from I'oxtjn on December 13 touched a warm spot. Examination showed that thu material was very warm ins*ae. A representative of the thrust a hand iuto a w aperture of the bale, and satisfie 1 himself that the cem porature was unpleasantly high. The fibre, which was damp, had rotted away in the place that was The tow was reserved for inspection by members the Wool Fires Coiami;s.on.

A conference of local bodns interested I was hld at Gisborne on Saturday afternoon in regard to the erection of an isolation hospital. It is unanimously felt that such a building is needed, but there is a strong objection to its being erected in the hospital grounds. Drs. Mason (chief health otli:er) and l)e Lisle health officer) were present, and urged that the site oflered no danger if the precautions advised were taken. Oj the matter being put to the vota the site recommended was approved of. A temporary strike amongst the girls employed in a Wellington restaurant was occasioned on Tuesday by a demand of the proprietor that every member of his stall should procure new aprons and app ar every day in a clean one, with culls, collars and caps in similar condition. The award recently made by the Arbitration Court, however, made the employees amenable to the law against striking, and eventually the bulk of them gave tha formal notice stipulated for in event of porsous su'j ct to an award of thu Court resolving to cease their employment.

The Labourer's Union of Nelson has lost its employment book, which wai kept at the local ollice of the Labour Department. The Union suspects tnat the book wi; stolen, and iu a letter to the Wellington Trades Council c r.veyiug tiiis alleg.ti >n, sta,te» furthei that tho b >ok was to have played an nil.imp r f int part as evidence in several breach of award nations institut d by the uui n. What shall we do without that book't was the anxious 'piestion put by the union to the c nioril. The latter body is advising tlie union to pr >c.eQ3 with its actions, inform the Arbitration Court why thu booL' cjuld n it be produced, and ask the Minister <.*. Labour for .sifer and bettor accommodation for employmeut books.

When an athlete started oil violently from a po-iition ot rest the system was at a high pressur ■, the blood pressure rose. " Ihe man who does a hundred yards sprint does not breathe at all," he added. "Look at the photographs a American spriuters. The only other faces that 1 have seen like theirs were 'U oue 1 a Dore'e pictures of Liante's 'luferuo.' It is said that the sprinters run for pleasure; well, they disguise their feelings very remarkably. It is commonsense that athletes should not start off at top notch. You mly persuade a mau that sprinting is harmful, but you can't persuade the owner of a horse, because thu owner does not pay the penalty. ' Tbaro was a large attend tree at the Showground, Clau lelands, yesterday aff,. r . noon, when Professor Bates aDd Captain Reynolds gave another exhioition of jumping, Ussooing, ropo spinning, ~|c Four horses were ridden, an excellent pxhibition of expert horsemanship being tiiven. O ving to the ground being nlippn-y the animals loßt their footing freijuentiy. Professor Hates rede a brown mare wh oh bucked her siddle over her head. TllO professor, however, merely slipped behind the saddle and rode bare back. A chestnut mare that had never been ridden before, was mouutei by Captain Reyno'ds. It did not give a very good exhibition n* a bu"k jumper, but put in a very fast m !o The p'rformers concluded their exhibition by lassooing and riding bullocks, which caused a gruat deal of amusement. The spectators were most sppreciative, and applause was fru'oent. Professor Rates and Captaiu Keyuolds purpose givii g another exhibition in aooyt ten days, when they expect to have about teu lieau of bucking liorfes.

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j "Are you going to the Exhibition ?" j seems to bo tho burning question of the 'day. The question whiih really intere-ts you Mr Clothes-wearor is—" Have you seen the exhibition of lovely suitings in V. Houghton's window?" 'They are all at ■ one price, ninety-fi.i shillings. It will c iet you nothing to look, at.fi ij will save your money to order one, If there is nothing iu the window to suit your ta?to just walk insidci and you will he »uued at I V. Hougutuu'a uji-to-datu tailoring bita'oliehioent, Hamilton. 6

The Taihape Post wants the motley rai-ed there for the purpose if erec'.ing a memorial to perpetuate tho memory of the late Mr Seddon diverted to a fur d for the purchase of fire extinguishing appliances. The sprinter, human and animal, came in for condemnation by tho Chief Health Office (Dr. Mason) at Wellington the other night. He was prepared to give h a reasons why the sprinter must inevitably oome a cropper, and to emphasise hii contention he challenged any nmn to try his fortune at starting a motor ear on the high gear. A reorganisation of the meteorological office has been d cided upon. Since 18118 t>e office has been connected with the Colonial Museum but now it has been placed in the .Marine Department and c 111bined with the Weather Bureau, which Captain Edwin has had charge of f r the past 32 years. Captain Kd«in will have charge of the Meteorological Department, assisted by the Kev. D. C. Rites, K.K. Met. Sec., who duriug the pist two years his achieved much success in tha meteorological office. The ch-nse has just come into operation, and it is expected that the combined branches, which are located in the Au-tralian Widows' Fund Building in Custom House (Juay, will be able to do even better work than in the past.

While he was in the North rfeently Mr T. E. D.tnne vis : tod some underground ab.iut twenty miles from Kotorua, towards the East Coast. It is supposed that these excavations were made by oldtimo Maoris, escapees from Honsri's massacres or something of that sort," says Mr

eoine. He found ten of these c tverns, which were cut cut of soft reck, evidently liy Maori chisels, for the walls were all scored with chisel marks of various siz-'s The largest of these ancient habitations is about 12ft long and Bf't wide. Only me reiic of the old dwellers, a stone lamp, was found. The caves are interesting ethnologieally, states Mr D mne, but are of no great value from the general tourist point of view. They are too far away from Rotoiua, and the way to them is rather arduous.

A member of the party wiiich has been searching for the Maori outlaw Matenga, in the wiids of l'ovorty Bay, writes to a friend in Welington that for the present tho search has beau abandoned. " Twenty weeks of solid battling through the bush," ho adds, " h.s just about settled us. Just imagine sleeping wherever you happen to be when mgnt comes, living on tinnad bdef and biscuit, and never lighting a tire in the daytime, and you can guess we have had a pretty rough time. For the last four weeks we have been working a river wnich necessitated wading all diy long—not one of your garden party creeks, but a river running like * mill-race, and in places up to your waist. Tne first put of the trip there was either mow or rain, and sometimos both, every day. We had snow on the llth December, which is a record for even this place."

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