ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 6

ODDS AND ENDS.

Wainn ' k\ 1-* to ha\e a whaif. There aie .°>,ooo cheese factories in Anicuc.i. 'flic ecnicn.uy oi tl»c death of .Samuel Jolui-^oi is on Hie Ks!h o^ coeinbci 'e\l. Thoouibieak of ?-in,dl po\ inS}dnc> i* expected to oo»t the colony t 10,(K)(>. There aio about L"), 000,000 of Kiccnu-ons throu rlii nit the win Id. AniiMieans call a three ma-fed schooner a l> U i n." l^ie-h milk and eie im .uc ship;,, d ho>n New \ oi In. to London Horn Mr Kc\ nold- \\ i-h<> to cV ,i uu( of the Cabinet. (Jo\cinmontli.i.c a/ie d to compi m-.i le consignees of cond' ni'i a! iiuil on <u count of (he codliu moth The London " Keonomist "' consider it impossible that whe it -mow ing can he mule profitable in Austvaha A rille .shooting niatoh, To Awanmtii nr.siis Waiukii, won by the latter by 67 points. The moht delicate, ihe ino^t .-eligible of all pleasures eoiioi->ts in j)ioniotin^ tho pleasine^ of others. Tl.o Auckland appc d ca-(\ Aiekatera rcr^i sF. B. Walker, ha.- lxen di-mi,— cd at \\ ellin^ton. The next Au-irala^ian Wc^lc-, an (\mfcienee i.s to be hold at Melbourne in May. ISBS. A nieccof thclatcJohn Bro.vn, " L-fjui-o," i\ a domestic .^civanl at IJoiult Vu\ui, Sout'n Au-^tialia. A Fiench almanac predicts tha f I'lidjici oi William and Oeneial Moltkeuill die betoic ! :)]<*{ IVeanber next. JSle^-rh Charles Ahier, Geoiirc Lip^CN, Henry V>nUle, (icoi^re iKon, and T'lctn is (Jiiin aic iri/oHcd for the Te Aioha Hot. Spiing-s Tublic Domain Board. The" jS t llc t.hi^ jear was much lowei {'ian if ha-=i cvci luon at (he i-amedate -i m o IS7S, when it caused t.imino, of which 10 '„{}() „(.i--,-onh in Uppei K<;>pt. died. The anni\erMry of 8L Andrew V I'io-l.y-tcrian Church, Auckland, is to be colehi.uid by a oonvor.-a/iom, in the Clhoud Ll. ill on Thuml.iv- llt.h Dcrembci 1 nevfc. Stati&tios show that the o\jvi : mcnl of Sunday-closing in the United Kingdom h.is not been attended with a doeu.'^ olo l druukenne^^. The New South Wales Pailiameul his been in tc^ion for a whole .year, whirl) is unprecedented in the hij-toi> ot (ho colony. (Jovernmcnt arc to be about (o rnmmenoo the woik of Civil Son ice lofoun, which is expected tofcccuvo t;rcatei tllii iem y at lef cost than at present. It i- estimated that in two ycai\< there w ill bo uninterru|)ted railway communioadon between the cipitals of Qucctisl.^h!, Now South Wale- 1 , and Victoria. The forged Hank of New Zealand note.. lately circulated at Christcluucli aiO ( bo lievcd to have been fabricated at Wo'lin^ ton, and Iho police ha\e ane^ted ctvoiul • v suspects" in the latier city. Prolebsor Pa\ne i>^ btill demo isiuifuvj: his skill (or ».ani of it) with theiiile. A( Brigliton, Victoiia, the other day, lie tried to shoot an apple horn the back of a mauV hand, but seriously wounded the man in si ooxl. The "London Athonajum" of Colo! or 4th sajs Mrs Sjiecdy, wife of Commander Speedy (which gentleman is novv on an embassy to King John at Massouah, Abyssinia), is going to give her experiences of Soudan country and liio. A bantering acquaintance of (he other sex remarked to a woman, " I never lieai d (;f seven devils being cast out of a man." "No," was the reply; "they've got 'cm yet."

An old lunatic— timo out of mind. There arc over 300,000 cyclists in England. A Melbourne hotolkcoper recently died worth £22,224. Waikato Brewery started operations last Friday. The Wellington " Post" denies that the Premier and Treasurer have quarrelled. Sunday next is St. Andrew's Day. Never eat soup that has a dead fly in it. Soup that will kill a ily cannot be safe. Bishop Cowie is to preach at Cambridge on Sunday next. W. G. (!. is not yet within four stone walls. " How beautiful^ is the rain, after the dust and heat." Three stables wero burnt down afc Oamaru on Saturday night. Worse than raining cats and dogs — Hailing omnibuses. Prince Albert Victor of Wales starts soon on a tour of the world. The King ot Siam, who U not thirty years of age, is the lather of 263 children. The Sultan of .Morocco, who is 37 ycai*^ of age, has a harem of 1,200 women, yet ho has to cut up his own tobacco. It is not an uncommon thing for Turks to smoke lrom sixty to eighty pipes of tobacco daily. Mr James \\ r illiam DeFoe, the gi'eat-gieat-giandson of Daniel DeFoe, is paralysed, nearly blind, and in urgent need. (Joodnews lor church-goers — A number ol new tin eopennj bits have been imported by (lovemnicnt. Uairard'.s aflair.s arc muhnr tie rote. He pays a Subscription is to be " rose " to help on his lawsuit. It you with to keep \our name untar- . nibbed, scour your door plate night and morning. Ifc is rumoured that Sir John Macdonald, Piomior of Canada, is to be raised to the peerage. Tho lost buckets of the Dunedin diedge, ', weighing about 30 tons, are still unreon urcd lrom the deup. [ Thiec hunched piotessed elcctoi.s in New- . ton di^tiict aio alleged to be ■wiongfully on tho roll. ' Few large hotel keepers, it i^ said, livo in [ their own taverns. Of course not— they [ can't alloid it. ■ Tlio Victoiian Houses of I 'ailiamcnt adjourned jc-teida.y out of respect to the late | Sir William Mitchell. Think not tlk kM you love loves not ; She lo\*( s, <1( j> ml upon it ; With willing liuul aliaro ,\ our lot— If tlieieS a building on it. Tho Xcw Yoik elevated railroads have l educed the laic to li\e centy. all day on Sunday. [ Ne\t month the election of policy-holders' ' representatives to the (Sovcniment Insurance Board 'will take place. A Floiida ncgre-s recently killed her father because ho w ould not let her go to chinch. A clcigyman was telling a marvellous stoiy, when hi-- little giil said, "Now, pa, i.s that hue, or is it on 1 3' pi caching .'" In London leccntly a woman was sentenced to a month's hard laboui for teaching her two childicn to beir, and thrashing them -when they did not earn sullicient money. There i.s a boy 11 jeais ot age in the (-Jcoigia penitential y ser.ing his term for mmder. Squat c-tocd -hoc- aic coining into fashion again, and toe- w ill on. c moiC ha\e a chance ' to spicad iheni-cl\e-. Louisa Wil-on, .1 ' ir,ilk'!u| ill la--ie '' of 13 years old, v. is chat iic>! the othci day at Melbourne wil'i -tailing L'J 1 woith of jewellu t \. Afitu- i!i" tin ii she went to the '' Aim,' " and <_m\i up tin; -poil Mis Lang! is s Clii i( sc |i.ige h«i- etched quite ascn-ation in London, and it- called tho beauty s be i-t. ■\ man in Tc\ 1-, ninfv.v, -i\ •soaio old, ha.s ju-{ died lioiu thcanuui-h eau-ed b\, cut ting a thud -c! of teeiii. Smith smoked a cm', and -om^ljody « lid it pul him//'// "'( oiflrd And now FF L >) dei-on want-- t>> K r> \\ it \hi- iikmi.- "-iik , as a hoi -c. Sticet lamp in l>^ilin «n 0 c \tli.ir iishcd at midnight, and Una: an pm cc.uij)l<initsot intoxicated M X s c >lhd<ng with the kunp-povts. A toui loonu-il im'i t..<_'o »< Ko-ljn, Oln^o, was bumul l.j^ii Oi i'-\ d,t\ uiorniiig The o\> nci, Mi '1 Ciluim., li.ml l« injiiicd Kir ' (SO m the x '■ '< ' J ' I 1 uij. n«\. Thcic ,no -{,\>-<> 'l.n'\ i.:u papci.s in tho uin Id, %\ it h .111 aggK'^.ito cuculation of ts\cut\-two luilh 'iKs per diem. The no\el, "Two Kit-s^," 1 is .said to be ha\ ing a uieat inn. c kiiow of a man in tin- tow n w ho took tw ) ki--e- .md i.- ha\ ing a gioat run. The woman's husband is. att r him. Mr Scddon's ability i- (s-.i\sthc " Otago Time.s ") getting o\ 1 1 hi.- w ant of education, „\nd we thould not bo -uipti-ed to see him attain a poitiolio soino d.i>. " \'ou did not pay \ery rlo-c attention to the ,-crmon, I fear, Ihi- niouiing."' "Oh, \'cs, I did, mu'iina " <v \> ell what did tho mini.stcr ku -' " f'c said t!>a' the picnic would -tait at ten oclotk on Thmsday lnouiing, and oh ! ma. ci". 1 q"? "When 1 i\ad in foi.ioni the books of (he Old Testament, ' ir.ud Mr l>occhei on a levem tMinda^, "that Hod .sjiakc to His su-\an(s faro to face, and t!-rn what He -aid, 1 don't believe a woid of it." On a la* e occasion the mnniki- entering ti.e city of f nndon within ill hours utro 'aUo.i .it its- 00 inlets: they woic 7! 7,.~>t..3 - 01. c thud m('io iban the whole population, me , wi men, ;i*ml cluldien, of New Zc iland ' A I'm: in (be olluv of Mr Austin, so'lraor, CiiiMehui' l>, on >':' iturday List, did litrlo tl v' a^c liejoml de-tun ing valuable document ■» .iu<'';e — (t '»\ hat -oi ot a man, now, wa^ it wliom }ou sn\ commit the u-s.ult?" (\«ns{al»ic '-"^huio, yer Honor, ho wa^ a -Lia!l, on-iuniiieant crathur — about \ 01 ow n -i/A . >ci 1 lotioi ." Ai Wheeling. \\ r . Ya., one night week heloie la-i, dining a peifoimanee ot "Uncle 'l\>m"'- Caliin, ' an Indian who was in the lumi c leaped upen tho stage and tiicd to st,,b one ol the chaiaefeus. Sa>sllie " Philadel[)hia Ptcss " in a recent i-.-uc : -Joseph l\ick, I/he beefy plti!o-o])licr of I lie unknowable, made an attempt the other day to tlnvi-h a sleeping car poilu on .1 wc-tein uii'way. 1* 1 other ''00K' genoial appe nance aftci the ( omro\ei.s> piovedthdt the oDort «.r thcgicatcsfc failui ■ of his life. An Auckland dairyman v as awakened by .1 v ,«<r -lio otlui night with <l.c tmnovinccn.ent that In- bcM cow was choking lie fiMtbwith jumped o\it to ,sa\o the life of cpimmie, but lo ' he found a tmv.ip si nek in the ii'outh of the pump. Tbe'o i- ."ill tiouble ovir Ihe l\'it Ciialmois bay. It s\us s\a'ed <ii Dt.naliu Cliamlici ot Commerce in> eti ig Ne-,((id.iy Ih'jtU.e liuapt hu had Uon unai,!<> tv dieh u .c all hoi' caigo at ilie p< 1 L a.- i»" had i( v(-uld ha\e di,s!',i! c.l Let l.im.-o I {hat '-he would have dins. 11 moio tl.un "JHi, (iui., ami could not have </n[, (>ut Any Hcaf-on ij* Bctttrtli.m K^ir. — At a tiauchifO demont-t ration at (! >la.-hie's s Scotia id, a few day.s. ;gu, a man was obs.ncd .staogeiiiig al ng "Mi a huge banner on \\ hieh \u< ins-ciibed "Down with tho Peer.s," Onbiini; asked why he was .so much oppo-ed to the Peers who had nc\or liarmed him, he leplitd. "1 dinna ken what y'lo f-ayin' ; but 1 wish Peers (peait>) wa^ doon to tho tamo pi ice as aiples. '

A BATHER AGREEABLE " BORE "—A good oil spring. Garrard has a grievance, and is in his glory. A new way to pay old debts — Cash, with interest. The Governor is going to Dunedin Agricultural Shov. The business of an astronomer is "looking up." Sir John Hall has left Wellington for Christchurch. The men injm-ed by the mine explosion at Thames arc doing well. " By gum " is the favourite oath in Worth Auckland. It is reported that Sir Julius Vogel and Mr Stout have fallen out. Flirts are like fiddles— of no use without beaux. A topaz weighing ISozs. was recently found at Gulgong, N.S.W. London Humane Society has petitioned the King of Spain to stop bull-fighting. The King intends to petition Londoners to stop wife-beating. Diminutive dude: "Why do you make mo wait until the last dance?" Young ady : " Oh, to give you time to grow." The parish of East Ilorndon, Essex, has not a single. resident voter. The Franchise Bill will make things look differently. The " Pall Mall Gazette " thinks that the only chance for the declining industries of England is America adopting free trade. Appropriately enough in these days of colonial defence, the latest New Zealand industry is gunpowder manufacture for small and large arms. Mr R. Kay, the well-known trainer to Robinson and Lance, has decided to leave Canterbury shortly. A citizen of Odes&a, Russia, was lately sent thirteen years to prison for throwing vitriol over a nobleman.

The Bad and Worthless. are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicinij, and it is positive proof that the remedy initiated ia of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up. and began to steal the notices in which the Pres3 and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suiFering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names, in which the word " Hop or "Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their stjle or name is, and especially those with the word "Hop' or " Hop 3 " in their name, or in any way connected with them or their name are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr. boule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in Imitations or counterfeits.

O GonM aKv*» notice that at th^next ordinary mcetinj? of the council mi the 17t'i p«>x. he would move that -\ special rate of £d in the £ he struck in the Aroha Hiding tor the purpose referred to. Cr Murphy asked that two surfacemen be put on the road to keep it open for traffic until the money from the rate was available. . Tt was agreed, on the motion of Lr huiith, that Uio matter o» elTfctinj? temporary ivpairs be left, in the hinds of Mr Pavitt. enmirineer Fm- th p liMinfir. Moses Nciil.— Wr Adams wrote a short and sntislm-toiy explanation respocthi" tlic fhixr^e of :\lr Moses Neal. Cr Murphy said that the man Xeal bad come and spokon t«« him on the Matter. He was very sorry that he (Vca 1 ) had taken any action whatever in the. matter. He admitted he hail been vron&jly advised and urged to do wh.-rt lie htwl'doue by personal enemies of Mr Adams and re^retteti very much what Lad taUen place. He fuithei admitted that Mr AoSms «tis tally justified in disch tr^iw"- mm. The clioinnnn <?nhl the council was olad to receive this explanation. Tt was evident from the handwriting of Mr iScal's letter of complaint ttnit he never wrote it. No further action was taken in the matter.

Prospecting Tracks.— Cr Murphy suggested that if the council were in fuii Is a number of prospecting tracks might be cut tl irons? h the bush on the ruuies. Tiie expire would be small AMiou compared with the possible suUantasfo? that would be derived from the work The Thames County Conncil had spent some money in cutting these tracks, and they had derived very considerable advantage indeed. This matter was well worthy the immediate attention o. 1 the council. Theie was slilU large area of auriferous country about Te Aroha ami Karangahake that had not been prospected, and that promised great things. He had seen Mr .1. B. WhyteatTe Aroha, and he promised that' the Government would only be too happy to give a £2 for a £1 subsidy on the expenditure on prospecting tracks. The question of ways and means was discussed by the council. It was generally admitted that the work was both commendable and necessary. After considerable discussion, it was unanimously agreed on the motion of Cr Chepmeli, ''That an application be made to the Minister for Alines for the sum of £1000 under the £2 to £1 system, in aid ol tracks at j. oldtield, and that the enginee be instructed to prepare an estimate of such works to cost £lf>oo, indu ling work done on the lower and other track-* to the extent of £500, the estimate to be forwarded to t .c Government. Slaughter-House, Waioronpom.u.— liobt. Mackay wrote to fie effect that he was about to erect a slaughter-house on his holding (Thimes High School reserve), and wanted to know if the coimc'l would grant a license to the same when erected. No action was taken, it being left to tl»e applicant to taue the usual course in t .c matter"