Something of Everything

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2161, 17 August 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

Something of Everything

A Wanganui tradesman was fined 5s anil costs for carrying -through the streets a parcel of meat not protected from dußt. A recent Gazette declares a close sea on for mullet in North Island waters from December 1 to February 28 every year. Masterton barristers are signing a petition to the Chief Justice to allow of sittings of the Supreme Court being held there. The Southland Education Board lias passed a resolution that any new scheme for classification of teachers sliold have for its foundation a living wage fixed at a minimum. It has been decided to relieve railway stationmasters in large centres ot attending to the transport of goods which will be placed under the charge of an official to be known as vhe goods agent.

A Maori woman named Kapekape, an old age pensioner, residing. at Whakarowarewa, and aged about 90 years, died on Sunday July 28. Kapekape was one of the survivors of the Tnrawera eruption. There were 679 accidents in factories in the colony during the year, 16 of which were fatal. There was cue accident among every 111 people working in factories, and one fatal accident among every 5000 people. The well-known firm of Messrs. Sargood Son, and Even, is being formed into a limited company, with a capital of £700,000, divided into 700.000 shares of £1 each. The object is to . take over the New Zealand and London business. Lord Wolseley is not an Irishman, at many people'imagine. As a matter of fact the ex-Conimander-In-Chief although born in the Emerald Isle, belongs to an ancient Staffordshire family. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fishei was 66 years of age last January. II he had remained merely an Admiral he would have had to-retire when he was 65, but being an Admiral of the Fleet he will remain on the active list until he is 70. "The King of Italy when a boy was made to learn English, French, and German, and to some extent, Russian. No lad, ever worked harder at school than Kng Victor Emanuel, who was left almost entirely in the hands of a tutor Who had a hatred of holidays and was a stem disciplinarian. At the Beauieu (Hampshire) annual 1 parish meeting it was stated that there were no accounts to lay before the ratepayers, as for the sixth year ir succession there had been neither receipts nor expenditure, the balai.ee in hand from the first and only rate . levied being £1 Is sd.