Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1723, 20 March 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Finei’Weatheri < s . ",'A-'- ,y , Drill to-night. • Sir R. Duff dead. Men working at Tui mines. War in the East continues; ;., Paeroa raqes grand success. Tauranga regatta yesterday. Milk suppliers in trouble again. Sale in Paeroa yards to-morrow. .General servant wanted for Palace Hotel. In one person in eighteen lives • on ? charity. ■' Twenty-five tons of pennies are,coined' every year. An explosion occurred .in a colliery at. Twopayj.in Austrian. Sicily, and entombed 247 meii. All efforts to rescue them have' so far-proved unavailing-. A sating of £9258 a year has been effected. % retrenchment in the; Sydney CityCoun-1 cil. : ' - ' ' .' . --. , . ; The Melbourne'Fresh’Food and Frozen Company bias declared a dividend of 7 per cent. ' /-v ,^ v v; £ At the, present time the sawmillers ip the' Forty-mile Bush are exceptionally busycutting orders. ' - A number of photographed £1 notes of;, the Commercial Bank are in circulation Ih’ Melbourne, Lord Roseberry and Mr Asquith both re* fused to receive a deputation of miners with reference to the Eight- Hours; Bilk,, 1 : It has been decided by, the government that in future e'xMbitiohs to 'universities shall be open to Women as well as males, says the Brisbane Telegraph, ;