Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News And UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE,

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 392, 10 August 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News And UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE,

' This above all— to thine own self bo true, And it must follow as the night the d*y Thou o&nst not then be false to any man.' Shakespeare.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, IfBJ. The ordinary monthly meeting of Pinko Conntv Council will be held at Cambridge to-d&y. A supplementary mail for United Kincdnm, etc. (via Snn Francisco), will he made up at Post Office, Te Aroha, this (Saturday) morning Correspondence may be posted up to 10.45 a.m. A meeting of the Waiorongomni School Committee will beheld in the school-house \on Monday evening next at half-past* seven. A plain and fancy dress ball will be given in Te Aroha Public Hall on Wednesday eveninsr 23rd inst, commencing at 8 p.m. Catalogue and prices of fancy dresses can be seen at Mr D f Craigs, shop, opposite Domain. Dr Dildy notifies that he can be consulted daily at the Palace Hotel. — See advt. Waikato District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board advertises for probationary nurses. We would remind our readers of tne concert and poke to bp held on Wednesday evening next in the Te Aroha Public Hall, in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds. The programme is a good one, and we h.ipe there, will be a bumper house. A dance will take place at the clo-^e of the entertninmpnt. A musical treat is in store for th* residents of Te Aroh.i and Wainrnnifoinal. Mr Jniuea Payne arrived in Te Aroha on Thursday, md has made airansrements for the appearance of thn celebrated Payne family of musicians, whe creared such a itirin Auckland but week. Th-y comprise Mr James Payne, tenor ; Misses Lizzie and Nellie, Romano*, Violinists, nr.il Pianists ; Miss Maud, contralto, and pianist ; Mr W. J. Pav^e. baiitone and fl.ulist, and Mr Ralph Steele, baritone and pianist. They come front Ballaiat, Viotoi'la, of which city they are native, and have won ten first prize cold medals at the musi-al competitionß of the Bull a rat Welsh Eisteddfod, defeating every other competitor. During the past three years they have made a tour of the Australian Colonies and Tasmania, meeting with biilliant suei-ei* wheiever they have appeared. The present is th"ir first vieit to New Zealand, and so far it has been a remarkable successful one. they bavinsr drawn oowds on their way fiom the Bluff. The Presn praise their peifoimances unstintedly, the Wellington Times going so far as to say that they excell the famous Jubilee Singers. They will "ive one performance in ihe Public Hall, Te Aroha, next Thursday evening. IF>tli inst. and one in the Public Hall, Waicironirom.-ii, on Fiiday, 16th. Thus*? will be their only appearances in the district. A veiy successful meeting of the Waiorongomni Band of Hope was held in the Public Hall, last Tuesday evening. The President, Rev S, Lawry, occupied the chair, and theifi were with him on the platform, Rev* F. G. Evans, T. A. Nome, and Mr W. J. Elliott. Short a^dres^es. bearing on the cause of temperance, Wore eiven by each of these dnrlnsr the evening, The following items also «v ere rendered ;—; — Recitation, The Toper, Miss E. Gold-«-worthv ; pontr, Something Moie. Mrs Da? by ; rceitation, Boys Wunted, Master A. Scott ; Bong, The Fishwife's Vigil, Mis Newsham ; reading, Smoking and Joking, Mr Brnme ; recitation, The Drunkard's Career, Mr Elliott ; duet. Hunting Tower, Mrs Darby and Mr A. Wa lace (encored) ; recitation, The youne Teetotaler, Master R. Gourd ; song, The Midshipmite, Mr Hunt ; song, Kathleen Mavourneen, Miss N. Healy. With the exception of one or two ignorant young fellows, who hid themselves in the porch, Hr«d in sundry ways made themselves a nuisance, the large audience evidently appreciated the very excellent programme which bad been provided. S^veial of the contributors to the evening's entertainment were new helpers ; which gave unusual vnripty to the progiamme. Great piaise i« due fo MisH Nixon for the way in which the ari'HMgfinentH w«-re made and canied thronirh. At the close of the meeting a large number oj? young people signed the Band of Hope pledge book.— CoireSpondert. Our Waitoa correspondent writes as follows : — "Our resj;>e"ted sHinol teacher is •uv«\ nmth of Auckland foe his holidays, but will r-'turn anain in » few day hnniring with hiiri Mrs McLean iinil c)>iW In Ihe MifMintime repairs to th" scjio/?! are. Ixing effected. — Rev Mr Noirie, Prp»b\terian minifiter preached in th<* Waihou Public ]l«ill last Sunday morning Then* wan a fair attendance considering the short notice given that the «ervice would be held. T believe Mr Norrie intends to hold a foitniuhtly service at Waitt.a. comment cinir Sunday, 18lh ii'Kt. Waibou u niuch in new<l of a revival in re'igious niHttirs, for the people do n««t seem so much interested as they should be when iioticwp are given that services wi 1 be heW.-»TI»e weather just iow i« v-ry favourable for out dn <r work, ami many of our settlers are preparing the land for d'opH. Mr G. L. Gnmt, on the V^atna (known as Larkwoitl.y's). I«hs, I b^ijcjve, seme five or six hundred acres Jo ho sowr down this epring in grass I and pats. 1 )'