LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 6 February 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are informed that the Hon Cadman increased the promised Government subsidy of £ for £up to £6O for the re-forma-tion of Bridge Street, also the amounts promised for Waiorongomai and Stoney Cree k tracks. Mr Me Andrew, the Engineer in charge of Te Aroha-Paeroa railway is to have the supervision of spending the money on the Various drains for which money has been premised. All these works being done should make work plentiful during the autumn.

The following are the Easter dates to the end of the century: March 25,1895; April 14,1896; April 5, 1897; April 18, 1898; April 10,1899; April 15. 1900.

At a meeting of the Hobart unemployed it was stated that? numbers were starving on the west coast of Tasmania, while men were being imported by contractors from Victoria.

A general Meeting of the T.A.J. Club will be held on Wednesday, 6th inst., at 7 30 p.m, in the office of tlie ( secretary, Mr 1). Macnicol.— Advt. \

The silting up of Caroline Timaru has proceeded to such a length that there are now some acres of sand not 'covered by the bea at high feule.

The negotiations for peace between China and Japan commenced this week, the Chinese envoys having arrived at Hiroshima. A curious and awkward experience befel the new; French President on his seek-ing-admission to the Elysee, the official residence of the head or the Republic. M. Faure had not informed himself of the password, or had forgotten it, and being unknown to the sentry on duty, he was challenged and actually arrested. After some delay the officer of the guard was found, and on matters being explained the President of the Republic was set at liberty. A committee meeting of the Te Aroha Horticultural Society was held Akoha Niirws office on Saturday last, MiStrange, vice-president, in the chain The minutes of previous committee meeting were read and confirmed: Mr C.F. Spooner resigned his position ’as Secretary, owing to the probability of his being absent from Te Aroha at the, time ,of the'Show. On the motion offMn Spooner, seconded by Mr. Mclndoe, Iffr'E.-’Wild was appointed secretary. E. Sharp, of WMkomiti, was asked.to judge the vegetables, and/fruit. Owing v to'’Mr Cadman’s meeting the committee' meeting was then adjourned till Monday, the 11th inst.

The preaohers’plan and the balance-sheet of the Upper Thames Wesleyan Methodist Church is just published. We are pleased to note that they occupy the unique and honorable position Of being free from debt.' The amount of money raised for the quarter ending December 31st, 1894, was £217. This happy result was attained by special donations, the TeJAroha Forest Fair, and the Paeroa concert. We hope that in future they will hate debt as much as they hate the devil, and now that they have a clean sheet, may they ‘ keep tfioir record clean/ In artist Peel’s pupils’ exhibition (Melbourne) for this year there is a river, sunset, picture decidedly, happy in coloring and freshness. It is the work of a lady 84 years of age, who until the last twelve months had never handled a brush. Besides this phenomenal old lady, there are two other * juvenile ’jjlady pupils who can both count 70 summers, and who have also ’done eiccellent work.—Bulletin. >

An actress has just died in a London workhouse who, years ago, married a man worth £40,000, which was run through mainly by her extravagance. When the daughters are infants, mothers are anxious to keep matches out of their reach. Quite the reverse takes place when they grow, up, for then the puzzle is to find the matches. - • -

Capt. Russell, at the close of his speech in Napier last week, said: —* The ship of State was sailing right on to the rocks, and the captain knew nothing about it. The speaker then drew a, vivid parallel between the late Wairarapa disaster, and the condition of New Zealand, and expressed the opinion that as the heroism of the women nad exhibited itßelf in the case of the lamented wreck, so it would in the future in New Zealand if occasion arose/

The Otago Daily Times thu3 sums up New Zealand’s position:—A wealthy and fertile colony, with a public and private bebt estimated at £68,000,000 due abroad, has to pay an annual interest of £3,711,000. The available net income to meet that interest was last £1,646,000. Four years ago it was £1,680,000. This yeur, owing to the fall in the price of wool, the staple product, the net income must fall £750,000 sterling. at least, and with the fall in other staples probably; more. Setting aside all arty spK'nrtnji pfejuuicej that is the one broad economic feature which must be looked at. It is not whether this party or that shall be in power, but whether we shall remain a solvent colony.

At Albany, New York, recently, Mrs Carrier,-: Armstrong sued a saloon-keeper named Stremble for selling her husband liquor until he became intoxicated, and in that condition wandered on the railway track and was killed by a passing train. She was awarded 2000 dollars damages. A well known journalist, realising the fact that the .ordinary professions in England aregreatly overcrowed, is having his eldest son educated-'to be a cook. The boy was trained by a famous chef at Brussels, and afterwards studied under the chef of the Grand Hotel at Paris. Those who sneer at cooks should remember that a first-class hotel or club chef earns from £SOO to £ISOO a year.

Can dogs find their way home from along distance ? asks a paper. It’s according to the dog. If it’s one you want to get rid of he can find.his way back from California; if it’s a good one he’s apt to get lost if he goes round the corner.

A Taranaki bankrupt told his creditors he had lost £lßl on a £147 contract! A creditor present could not understand how this could be, as the bankrupt had not paid for the £3O worth of cement he got from him to do the work with.

A fish hawker is said to have electrified the people of Wellington by calling out, * Smoked fish! All alive, oh ?’ A Liberal women’s independent newspaper, or an independent women’s Liberal newspaper, we hardly know which, is to he started in Wellington shortly. It is to be managed and edited by a woman—a ‘ new woman/ we presume —and will he of a political and social character. The editress will graciously permit the expression of ‘ all shades of opinion’ in its columns, so ’tis announced.

Curl in pencil trees is said to be caused by an absence or potash in, the soil, which may be supplied by a plentitul supply of wood ashes.

The posting-boxes in Whitaker-street are cleared Mondays and Thursdays at 8.20 a.m., Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 a.m,, Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8.30 a.in., and on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10.30 a.m. ; also daily at 3.55 p.m.