MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 92, 7 March 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

Milk diet is a cure for Bright's disease. A Stable Companion.— A staunch friend. There are now five cheese factories in the Waikato. Mail steamer Tongariro made the passage Home in 38 days. Mrs Snow and party from America are now at Rotorua. Thames natives are invited to attend a meeting of Whatiwhatihoes on 12th March. Koranui Coal Company, Wesport, have struck a seam of coal fifteen feefc thick. Taranaki imports some four hundred cases of apples a year from Nelson Thirteen thousand people travelled on the Auckland tramways last week. A woman's reason — "Because." A man's reason—" You're another." Epitaph on " Kiliana," a Solomon Islands cannibal : He loved his fellow- men. The harvest throughout the Hawke's Bay district is said to have been very abundant. In a new hotel at Rotorua, tourists can live at two guineas a week. Mr Federli is lecturing on " Fruit and Cereal Culture " in Otago. Wanganui folks want a tobacco factory for themselves. The Sydney patriotic fund has reached about £40,000. Nelson hop crop is light, owing to the dry weather. It is considered probable that New Zealand Parliament will meet in May next. Ex - Judge Hargrave, of Sydney,£died recently at the age of 70 years. The Brisbane Newspaper Company intend to erect a seven-story printing office. | |Lord Elphinstone is in Auckland on a visit. A. monster pigeon shooting match is projected at Napier. Sir Julius Vogel is to reach Christchurch on Monday or Tuesday next. At Port Chalmers the hotels have had their hours extended to 11 p.m. Government accept the offer to raise a Scottish Volunteer Corps in Christchurch. Hon. J. Colton, Premier of South Australia, is now at Wellington, and is to visit Auckland. " Those newly-invented curses to armies " is how Lord Wolseley describes newspaper correspondents. " What is the boundary that separates a smile from a tear !" " Give it up." " The nose.''' An eel was found in a can of milk recently, and it didn't appear to be at all out of its element. Mr Milner Stephen, the Australian Hoaler, begins a mission in the Waikato on 7th inst. Mr J. H. Mahoney, of the Belmont Hotel, Paeroa, and an old Ohinemuri resident, died on Friday last. From North Canterbury there are applications for 8,400 feet of space at the Induutrial Exhibition by 63 exhibitors. Captain Daly, of Hautapu, Waikato, is sending 2f tons of honey direct to London. His yield this season will be over 4 tons. Mr M. H. Oram, of the Royal Hotel, Christchurch, died suddenly of heart disease at Dunedin on Saturday last. An enterprising foundry man has named an economical stove that he has invented, the " Semi-coal- 'un." Rayner won the six days' "go-as-you-please" at Dunedin, accomplishing 365£ miles. A boy of nine years named Thomas Robins has been drowned while bathing at Gore, Otago. J. D. Hayes was seriously injured at Kaeo la&t week by being rolled over by his horbe, which, fell down an embankment. His shoulder was dislocated. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of W. S. Kearly for embezzling sums of money which he collected for the Wellington Horticultural Society. Temperance reform is spreadingjto the bush. The licensing elections at Dargaville, Aratapu, and Te Kopuru have been carried by the teetotallers. Times cannot be so bad in Dunedin after all. A telegram says that a total of £38,399 was put through the totalisator at the Forbury meeting last week. Our city larrikins have found a new amusement in jamming wedges in the grooves of the tramway, causing the cars to run off the line. Protection run mad ! The paper trade of the United States is in a ruinous condition, caused by the Government embargo on tho importation of foreign rags. City Korth electoral roll is to be purged, and people falsely on the roll will be summoned at once to show cause why they should not be struck off. Tawhiao's portrait, as taken in England and presented to the Museum by Mr Geo. Graham, is now on view in the secretary's; room at that institution. Advance, New Zealand ! Last year there? wore 300 applications for patents in this colony, against 294 in Victoria, and 181 in .New South Wales. The mysterious Hinemoa has once mores proved a slippery customer. She is not te come to Auckland for the volunteers after all. The store and post-office at Otonga belonging to Mr John McKenzie were burned! down on Monday night last, the goods and letters being destroyed. Insured in the National office for £50 ; loss, £120. Cheap trips are the order cf the day. Tho Northern s.s. Company have arranged to run the Gairloch to Auckland from New Plymouth and Waitara, with fares at £1 return.

Mr N. Wilsons b g ; Ukgwood, tivrs 7st 1 libs (including 3!b penalty) .:. I Mr R. G. Tal hot's b h Sheet Anchor, Gyrs,7st 611)3 2 Mr T. Kent's b c Stornow.-iy, 3yrs», 6^t 3 J The betting at tto post whs wen on Coronet, who led from the start, and >v»s a dozen lorigtlis ahead at the' river. Ho was, however, beaten at the slicds, and colltipsedatihohotne turn, where Ringwood came up with a rush, and after a most exciting race got home three parts of a length in front. Tinift, 4-mlns Hsecs. PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH. " WALES. Sydnry, M.'ircb .5. It ia anhdndts'ed -that FarUumehfi will bo called together on the 17 instant merely for businoss counc«-ted with tho di-spatch of the contingent to the Soudan.