Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1721, 13 March 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895.

* This above all— to thine own self be true, ind it must follow ne the night the day Thou oanet not then bo false to any man. Shakespeare.

Prize owners at the recent show are notified elsewhere that they can obtain their certificates on application to the secretary. The third and final reading of stations for ministers has been made by the Wesleyan Conference, with few exceptions the appointments are practically the same as the first reading. The following are the Reefton gold returns for the week : —Progress, 1790 z amalgam from 170 tons ; Hercules, 2870 z amalgam from 130 tons ; Cocksparrow dredge 920 z amalgam for 138 hours’ work ; Wealth, llloz amaglam from 95 tons.

Constable G. Keep, of Auckland, is at present doing duty in this town, Constable Wild having to attend the Supreme Court, which is at present sitting in Auckland. The privileges of the Te Aroha Jockey Club were sold at Mr E. Gallagher’s stables on Saturday last, by Mr Geo. McCullagh, auctioneer, and realised as follows: Gates, Peter Baine, £25; publican’s booth, W. H. Knock, £l3 ; refreshment booth, W. 11. Knock, £2; fruit stall, G. Bygrave, £2 ; cards, J. Rennick, £3; horse stand, R. Parr, 15s.

A committee meeting of the Horticultural Society was held on Monday evening last, March 11th. A protest was received from Mr J. Stanley objecting to the awards made in the collection of gra33es competition, but as the protest was lodged too late, and both judges being of opinion that the awards were fair, his objection was not upheld. Accounts amounting to £25 odd were passed for payment. Nothwithstanding the heavy expenditure this year, the show, financially, has been a success, it is expected that after all accounts have been paid there will be a balance of about ,£lO in hand. The committee wish to express their thanks to all those who have so ably assisted in making the a'fair a success, more especially to those who donate 1 spe da prizes iu cash and kind. Th\ annua’ meeting of members will be held'on April Ist,

A gentleman from Blenheim has been j visiting Nelson, entrusted with a commission to buy 300 cats, which ai-e to be taken to Marlborough station, for the purpose of. killing rabbits Mr W. S. Allen, of Annandale, is to deliver an address in the rooms of the National Association, Auckland, on Thursday evening next, the subject of the address is “ Taxation.”

It is expected that the railway excursions between here and Paeroa will be well patronised, and should this be so there is no doubt that the race meetings held will be largely attended. The fare, which has been set down at 2s, is very reasonable. One of the young men (A. McGuire) who left Paeroa a short time back for Western Australia, is at present iu the Albany Hospital, suffering from typhoid fever. A Manawatu paper says:—Some people find beei§iprofitable. One owner of 140 hives informed us that the returns averaged .£1 12s per hive per annum. Miss Amy Vaughan’s * Amazons ’ gave an entertainment in the Public Hall last evening, the Hall was fairly filled. Miss Amy Vaughan and Co. kept up their reputation for giving first-class entertainments. This evening they will again appear, when we have every reason to believe the Hall will be crowded.

At the Christchurch Amateur Swimming C üb’s Sports on Saturday the 100 Yards Championship of New Zealand was swum, re mlting as follows:—L. Leo, Sydney, 1; H. J. Bailey, Auckland, 2; C. Proudfoot, Sydney, 3. These were the only starters. Leo came up in the last five yards, and won by a foot, Bailey, who got a bad start, beatProudfoot on the touch. Time, 73 3-7 s. There are two dances advertised to take place this evening, one in the Town Hall and the other in the Public Hall. The admission to the former is, gents 2s ; ladies free ; while that in the latter, which takes place at the close of Amy Vaughan’s entertainment, is free to all. . Mr Gray, secretary of the Telegraph Department, has received a telegram from the postmaster at Lake Taupo, stating that the other morning there was a tremendous ejection of steam from Ruapehu, the lake on the summit of the mountain having evidently been converted from cold water into a great solfatara. The wire stated that since midday the mountain had been ejecting smoke and ashes Ruapehu has never been so active before. The other crater of Tongariro (Ngauruhoe) is also active.

There was a large sale by MeNicol and Co. at Waitoa on Friday last. The pens were all well filled, and a large attendance. Strong calves, £1 4s Gd to £1 12s ; young calves, 15s to 17s; two and-two and a-half year old steers, ,£3 9s to £4 Is; yearling and 18 months stedrs, £2 3s to £2 14s; yearling steers and heifers, £1 15s to £2 2s; fat heifers and cows, £4 2s Gd to £5; fat steers, £6 10s to £6 15s. Sheep: Pat wethers, 11s 9.1 to 12s ; fat ewes, 7s 61 to 9s Gd; full-mouth store ewa3, 3s 61; crossbred lamb 3,3 s 5d to 4s 3d The red clover industry, which has proved so successful in Canterbury, is now threatened with destruction by a new. pest. Tons of blackberries have been recently despatched from Bulls to a Sydney fruit firm. One penny per lb is paid for picking the fruit. An ‘ improved kerosene emulsion ’ is thus described in the American Agriculturist : * Ono of the. best emulsions for use in the greenhouse or window, on plants affected with aphis, scale, and mealy bug, is’ prepared by adding one part of fir-tree oil to five parts of kerosene, and diluting this mixture with water, according to the insect to be fought. Por scale and mealy bug use twenty parts water to one of the mixture, syringing it all over the plants infested. Por green or black aphis use forty parts water.’