Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 24

Interprovincial

101 Greymoulh - died at

acre S LT a thA UCI V land orcll r ds - £100 per an? Sih'prVes 5*5 * ""^ th6re b^ * P^nomenal cr P O p I4fi?^?? r nt' lslanid COTltains 28 > 459^20 acres, of which' Prises' 37 45fi0 c 0 S n are oCCu^\ The South Island comprises 37,4565000 acres, and has 22,755,577 acres ioi ocaS 2 n 4^« S n teWar ? if land has an area of I^ooo acres, 24,138 acres of which are. occupied. 'I hive only been in thas country alv>ut, * fnr+ da? 'to^th 1 COl ° nel Deimy at *^StS tie * other S-J-iw? marine engnneers and their friends. '« Of it-Sft no a t \oZ n lol )X m °' d<lh to Write a book * bo^ of the country ? °** ° any &reat K e 1 I wouldn't go on a farm with mv wife n * X h i * . ; • he cant kee P her without her rnvW to help by doing work, ho had no right to take Ser ' S Details of the last Christmas railway traffic covering the period from December 18 to JanuarY 2 Ko«t, :srs;:r."i.:i srs,, v .«- HrrrE-S-" s-- 'AS The Wellington correspondent of the ' Press ' telegraphs.: A conference of representatives of the differed fire and marine insurance companies doinr business ?n ter^ that fire rates were to be raised has not b£2 fulA candidate who was nominated for the KaiaDoi bchool Committee, asked to be allowed to withdraw J 1S n n TH nn + atl °^- When later on his wife -was proposed « a .candidate, his reason lor retiring being that one of them miist stay at home to mind the children ISS householders refused to hear of his withdrawal, and at the poll he was returned, while-his wife was not the Jf.* 8 showing that they thought that the' husband should attend to the school affairs and the wife stay at home.

An interesting illustration of the- undated power of old-time s-uperstitiion upon the mind 6f the toresentAday W £ ..afforded in the death of a youn X M-aeri <& ,l/w5- I>fm th3 f A IV cklaild Province. He waa J strapping aI WSWSrmS« nS fl? lo Yv ?, n a vi&itl *o Cfisborne, having just finished .a tyish-f €.lil'ing contraafc. He unwittincl? trespassed on a waifoi tapu, or sacred ground, which means death to the trespasser. "Itr is stated that in a fortnight, influenced by his own fatalism, and thja The other evening an Oamaru resident, whose poultry prefer the shelter afforded by his macr Ocarpa trees foi roosting purposes to that contained in their boto-perly-constructed habitation, was (says the 'laM) startled at a late houf by the 'distressful cries of one o-l the -bards and on looking into the txees with a lan^ tern to ascertain the cause discovered on one of the topmost branches a-weasel on the back of a fowl e-isurely sucking the blood from a wound inflicted at » A a . o£ the head- The weasel was subseqtuently caught m a trap. " +o.;Q uestioll6d > Auckland at to the Government's intentions regarding immigration, the Hon. Jas. M'Gowan saua : We are going, to continue our present policy. Those who object to oiur policy evidently are not aware of the -kind of people that are coming to New Zealand under our present" scheme. It can hardly be called immigration; it might rather be called- a scheme for enaWi-ng residents of the Dominion to bring out their friends from Home at a little cheaper rate than that which would otherwise, have tobe<ip)a4d These new arrivals are adding to the capital of the country, and the amounts which some of them "~ bring Mth them are very considerable.' Attention was drawn by Mr. Mack&y at the meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid .Board the other day, to the f act, jthat no less than six nur«es are- down wath typhoid fever, while another had recently died (with- it. There must, he submitted, surely be somrjhunfi wrong, otherwise such a state of affairs ?om£ «3?* 1 ?-Ud- he, ur^d that theyfehould take some steps with a view ta getting at the root bf thi. evil and remedy!^ it. There^ was" nc • 'Subt% at there wou d be outbreaks of typhoid in Auckland until fa pilp ci*ei- *£ rrt v? trV^: .^ as b^sjhfc into operatfion, but h P Slar a s >--if^4^£ on Slf 1 Sa-^%S a-^% Lf yeT^S this number states the annual report of the WellinSM?r J? 1S T tl; iCt, LaW Society > 524 were resident i n le North Island, and 316 In the South Island. To be more minute, they were distributed as follow • Auck land, 180; Canterbury, 119; Gisborne, 20 HawkS Bay, 41 ; Marlbforough, 10 ; Nelson 15 •• otwam * Pout Wand, 29; Taranaki, 45>; Wellington, 235 ' lid Westland, 20. It i s. estimated that on the' date in-«u£-tion there was one solicitor- to every 1163 of *the Tn' P?P?q a n4 IC?'ggo**™** o**™* w f ith one. to every 1194- last year. In 1904-5, 51 notices for admission were received and the profession increased by 49 ; in 1905-6 the figures were 61 and 46 ; in 1906-7, G8 T and 45 ; whilst in 19078 they were 62' (-including 9 by Solicitors already 'nractising for admission as barristers) and 39. Mr. W H. Field, M.P. for_6taki, haa-ieen putting in a good word for the tangi. Speaking- at one of .these ceremonies, the, other day, he said a tan f™4s a time-honored custom"of the Maori people, and-thereTwas little-or no harm about it if it was oonSucSlT I proper way on strict lines of sobtfiety and with dv© regard to the health of the children, 'and was carried out without impoverishing eitiher the hosts or the visitors. He-also held that tangi gatherings were productive of good, inasmuch as tfliey- afforded opporttini'tiies of commune between various tribes, and had a cementing , influence. A y t such .gatherings the youn ff cenerataon had an opportunity of-Mstenhng to: thfit elders and their beautiful language and' interesting customs' chants, and traditions, which every lover l oM>he-race desared to see preserved, were-'thus-afforded some-hope of perpetuation. • F