Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1730, 13 April 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha Rifles gone to camp. Waihou school concert great success. Several marvellous cures at our baths lately. Service was conducted in St. Marks’ Church last night. The excursion train arrived yesterday with a fair number of visitors.

Shooting season for native game opened yesterday. Very few big bags. It looks as if there will be no football Club in Te Aroha this season.

Mr Tighe, representative of the Blind Institute, is at present on a visit to this district.

. Eev Leonard M. Isitt purposes leaving Wellington for London by the ‘ Gothic’ on May 2nd. A shark ten feet long was caught off the Oamaru Breakwater last week. There are between 500 and 700 men working daily for rations at the relief works at Centennial Park in Sydney.

The various schools in this district are closed for a week during the Easter holidays. The export of hops from Nelson last month amounted to 326 bales. Out of 141 candidates for the Sydney University matriculation examinations, 111 passed. A vagrant arrested in the Wairarapathe other day was found to have a kit of burglar’s tools. Settlers at Hawera, Forty-mile Bush, are considering the advisability of changing the name of the settlement.

The gross amount of fire risks held in Sydney on 31st of December last was £59,340,09.6 —about two millions less than for the record year 1892. A boiling-down company has been formed at Masterton. The Wairarapa Times also urges the erection of cold storage chambers for butter, rabbits, poultry, and fruit. Locusts are very numerous in the Mildura district of Victoria, and are eating the raisins which are in process of drying; Some settlers are suffering considerably from the pest. There is a Church of England clergman in Victoria who absolutely refuses to recognise the standard time. He rings his bell for service twenty minutes after other churches are in full swing. The approximate value of silver ore exported from the west coast of Tasmania during March was £18,720. The total returns from the colony for the month are £64,568, being an increase of £13,941 over the value of minerals exported during March last.

The West Australian gold output for February was slightly under- 16,0000z5, Coolgardie, for the first time since its discovery, ranking second to the Murchison. It is noted that the February yield of the Wentworth Proprietary mine (New South Wales) was about the same as that for the whole of West Australia.

First Boy (contemptuously) ‘ Huh ; Tour mother takes in washin’.’ Second Boy: ‘Of course. You didn’t s’pose she’d leave it hangin’ out overnight while your father was out of prison, did ye ?’ ■ The Advanced Woman’s Progeny. —Advanced Youngster : ‘ Those incomplete specimens of humanity engaged in piscatorial exercise have had the unpardonable effrontery to suggest .that I was the offspring of Capricornian ancestors. Mother : What did they say to you? Advanced Youngster: They said, ‘ Hellow, kiddy!’