GENERAL NEWS,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS,

The Native Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) was understood to have, said, while attending the obsequies of the late Mr ; Hone. Helce, that the Government would ere-qt a monument to the memory of the late member for'the Northern Maori .District. • He has, however, since stated that his idea was that funds should be V collected, and the government would no doubt contribute. -.-. ■ -

The director of the geological survey (Dr .J, M. Bell), who. -lias just returned, to GBtkistchur-cli from a southern tour, .’states' that, 'the copper deposits of the ■Aniseed Valley, Nelson, are being studtied, and that a topographical survey of The Ravamea district is being made. It is considered that in addition to coal valuable minerals will bo found there. There is an epidemic cf tyhpoid fever in Auckland 'just now, 89 cases having been reported in the- city and suburbs eihee December last. Dr Purdy estimates! that typhoid fever costs Auckland ' £15,300 a year for hospital -cases .alone, •a sum which would capitalise at £'300,000. Probably the total cost of enteric fever in the city, he says, would equal the cost -of Mr Midgley Taylcr s ■ drainage scheme. A claim for compensation has been bbdvwyih the clerk of awards in Christchurch by C. F. Franklin, an .entry c:e,rk employed by the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of 'Canterbury, who claims £oCp fixe-ta his employers for paralysis M the left side of the face- due, he alleged, to the fact that he was required to work at a desk where, no was fixpooed to a strong draught. • _ .: W ~jy. rent i kabic statomonw'. is inaoq oy tie London Club gosup- of the ••Liver-; poci'ikwi'.”. " X have/', he wvyo, pest authority for stating xnat i.vj.is Asouitii has ‘ex ere: wo cl her confidence iiiat herhusband will accept a peerage at the general election. finis wou.d leave the leadership of tne Government ir.' i'ty in the House ex Commons to iei • Blovd-Gs-orge, Tho foregoing statosr.orit may. be prematura, but there is ao reason to doubt its accuracyThe secretary of tho Otago, branch .of New' Zealand Farmers’' - Union has circularised tho rwricnis country branche? of tho Union on the question ox unlurut: hi to tiie .wouiimon -ox -i nul bborcrc and domestic servants, pointing out- that a large number of people viu> arc not at all sifitsblo' colonists are being lauded in Now Zealand. The Union, is taking this matter up-very seriously, and as soon as replies -come to hand, a" meeting -of the executive of the Otago brunch will be caked. ‘ The other day Desmond, the champion' show jumper or New South Maxes put'up a new record for the State, -a feat £>li the more- notable from the fact that the. horse-is well over 20 years old. The record was put up at Tenterueld, Napoleon - and" Desmond, being the only competitor:.;. Tho jifmps.ctarted at'oft, and bo ill horses up Stn. The. bar was then ra.iicCi no bit llin. Nac.jioi’n knocked the tar down twice, and baulked at the hhird attempt; ■whilst Desmond cleared _iv at first attempt, and .wen amidst dc.xismng

.*• While fishing near Escape Bcc-f last .week the 'occupant of Beer’s motor ■ launch;- had (says, the ‘'Western Star”) ' a somdwhafc .thrifiiwg _ experience. One of. the fishermen was in the act of liaullag into ilto iauncli two muc cod, vxien a huge shai'tc, Over fiOie in length, made ,v rush for tine bint,, and swallowed the ecu, hooks, and sinker. Apparently he did not relish 'this morsel, as he turned his attention to the rut icier, . . .which was an iron oho. -and niacie- a vigorous-attack on it, the boat receiving. some heavy strokes from the monster. Needless to say, the. fishermen got way on the launch with all haste. The Alonowai anchored in Hawke’s Bay cm Monday Just at a cam distance ■i • ‘ irons the breakvai :-v (;:••;• o'. the Napier ••Herald.”) The bay was like a millpond and offered tiro aspect ox tempting peace./ The ripples might have been . Trusted by the simplest youth who earth To lay a Byron-.ike touch upon tlieir . mane. No permo/e wreck couki nave - happened. uucerVudi -coiui-Xious of Marine iussitune, btcnviso the home-or marvels railed to throw up a decent. wive. r~": U was d:if-'rant when' the Penguin was -wrecked, bat with the boat safely anchored; and tJi& merciless sen ax rest Boat.'chill was held on the Monowai. . . The > Bluff ccrre.-pondent of the . “Otago Daily Times” states that the ~ fishery returns for February—the epen- : ■ - lag month of tho season—-are reported ■ A .tombs’ 'good. Tho take, realised *£Boo, ' "and, but for the fact that 'that hands hvev-o scarce, the rum would have been % ‘ fit least’ BiOdO. The fish feed was very-plentiful all round the islands, and hh • although that brought the shoals well ii together, it had the effect" of preventing f hern from hiving as freely as. they -"H T would have otherwise have done. The ' nor’west wind likewise interfered with ' " thorn la that way. Still the season, as - far as" it had gone, is considered good,' , • and.now that the. hot weather has cooled • . L > down, prospects arc looked upon aa bevy. . nig excellent. ’ ... 'The Servant problem occupied the atiff t-a-..ton lion of a meeting, ox-: ladies at tho fifi. Council Chambers, Napier, on Monday last. The Mayor (Mir. J. Vigor Brown, I;-'. M.P.) briefly opened tho proceedings .and stated that , tho meeting had been yfk wkeaiied at tho instance of the Mayoress of CiirE-tehiireh, who desired that the Indio?. of Napier should cooperate in a My. , petition to- Parliament requesting State- - ’■" .tree ha migration -|br a time of single lifiyiTlvrom&ii suitable fol domestic service.; The Mayor then l*hi the meeting arid • ; v . those present decided, ' after some ciis£e cussien., to ask the Mayoress of ChristIjiyil' church to forward copies of tho petition which, (iii arrival, will be -placed.hi the. -Sown clerk’s office, and in the Public. HillliyLibracy, where tkose who desire-'to do. go may sign. iV—•' A writer in the Dominion who has reT ■- c. ntiy traversed the. Waikaraomoana i out'* v a v\ mi 3a Ims tho foliowing re-, .'marks'concerning 'tho “City on , the tl|c i k:' i t'iV-er’;’ : Wairoa lias various 1 points in r icorunmn with some others in New Zear Mrl. to wit: a river-port with a bad bM/y bhry a 'vaoiiiatiiig harbor, policy which ides' hot:''know whether to ..abandon the |f§|- "'Mostly mb'take.-, or to spend more mo- • “ - ney to. retrieve, them ; a rival scheme. vMb for establishing a port at -a naturaj harife‘;';:':"i3.ow' konie: distance , away (m this case ,twenty odd miles, at IvValkokopu)—a : M i i.rdan which, whatever its- merits, must !||s-be 1 idDfostoful to many ; local-landed - ih- '‘ '-M/ww.r; in Vyairna ; a "yet m-ore remote oMMieyciioihe -for a railway Rom''Napier', thus IlsSMcihfp'idiihl. present isolation ; in matters ndniinistnitibn,- j '{s tendency to ; conflict with'very old 'established 'set-' ‘t’-'e/'Af coaearvat:va bout, and younger---fMI - -business 1 men ' who' want to „ “hueth” ; If Iddfind bet—but by no moans least-—a. Na-, ,1/- ' tlv-3 b,ml title. So W-air.cn has a iar-Mlit/’-lv hcab-i/- eron- of. troubles, l and, the. ■f t o W o mw th-h' arcicured too better it will % ttt-: t :/0/-.:'/wyyy;yWyyyy