Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1719, 9 March 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Japanese advancing. Town Board to night. Stoats and weasels at Ohaupo. Maori Parliament at RotoruaThe return match between the Te Aroha Rifles and the Navals takes place at the Thames on the 23rd inst - Te Aroha Horticultural show a great success. . Cricket 'mania |at present raging in Australia. _ , Te Aroha J.C. Races on Wednesday next. Number of persons charged at the Thames for failing to registrar their dogs. .The Magistrate stated they were liable to a penalty of <£s. McNicol and Co. held sales as follows : Clearing sale on the Ohaupo-Hamilton road •on - 20th; sheep fair at Ohaupo on 2/th; special horse saleat Cambridge on 29th; and for sale on arrival at Cambridge 2,000 wethers and ewes. ,f ‘ There is some money, my love,’ said the husband. * I don’t want any,’ replied the wife. ‘Come now, darling, take this £2 note and go out shopping.’ ‘ Thank you dearest, but I really don’t care to; I would rather stay at home and see to the housework.’ Then the husbar d awoke and found, as the reader las already suspected that he had been dreaming. . ■ _■■■ As a token of esteem, Mrs H, C. White, before taking leave of her gallant little hors.e Paris, . inserted a solid gold ring through the little horses ear. Paris was recently, shipped at Sydney for England. Mr Blake: ‘Where were you last employed ?* Applicant for Position: ‘At a writing teacher’s.’ Mr Blake: ' What did you have to do there?’ Applicant: ‘I had to keep shaking the table when a new pupil wrote the words—* This, is my handwriting before commencing to take lessons 5 Two seaman of the steamer Stormbird have drawn Laundress in a sweep on the Newmarket Handicap, and each receives .£1,670.