Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1717, 23 February 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Waitoa Road Board meet to-day. Nominations for; T.AJ.C. Races appear elsewhere, ■

On Monday last Mr J. L. Stevens’ new hotel at Waihi was opened. A free house was given,

Messrs Moore and O’Harra have commenced the additions to the Royal Mail Hotel, Paeroa.

-A number of applications for special claims, wafcer-race, and machine site, appear in another column The Warden's and S,M. Court sit at Paeroa on Tuesday, there are 109 applications on the Warden’s list,

Queen Victoria is said to be a very poor speller, ami is in the habit of writing illegibly to bide errors in orthography. So much for the Queen’s English,

Berry, tjae English hangman, says that in 183 executions he has never hanged a teetotaller, and most of his cases came into his hands ichrough drink. Y 1 Y, A spiteful editor ; The good die young. The bad li'Ve.toJie about the weather, and are spoken of, as tfieWldest inhabitants.

The ch arge against John Swann, of attempting to shoot Hugh Campbell, solicitor, was dismissed.

Although the Te Aroha Brass Band are always vailing to give their assistance by playing at local concerts, etc., free, the band concert on\Thursday night was not patronised as it should have been.