LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1733, 24 April 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr E. Gallagher, coach proprietor, of Te Aroha, met with a very painful accident on Monday morning.' He was lifting a heavy box into the coach when the horses moved on causing the wheel of the coach to pass over his right foot, lacerating the three large toes considerably. His injuries were immediately attended to, and we are pleased to say he is able to get about. The Hon ft. Seddon, Premier, addressed a public meeting at Marton on Friday last, in the course of which he said tho financial year just closed showed a gross surplus of ,£430,040, and a net surplus of £IBO,OOO besides which <£20,000 had been paid to the Public Works Fund. There would he over <£40,000 available for Public Works purposes during, the current year. The Customs revenue for the year showed a loss of <£40,000, and the railways did not cqrne ujp . to expectations by <£17,600. , 'The other heads of revenue, however, had more than compensated for their losses, and the net revenue, over the estimate ,at the close of the year amounted to .£46,000 He received a vote of thanks; and- confidence. • Messrs McNicoi afid Co. will hold their ; third annual sheep. fair at Ohaiipo on .Wednesdaynext; May Ist.’ There are. al-7 ready. upwards of 2000 entries in the various classes. The fair promises to be even a greater success than its prede-. cessors. --• ... ; . , .■ V ;

; W: G. :H;v Kenrick. ; vice-president of the Taeroa Football Club, has presented his club with a Best Match Ball. The gift is much appreciated the club. >

Mails for United Kingdom,. Europe, etc. (per direct steamer Gothic from Wellington, May 2nd), will close at Te Aroha Post Office on Friday, 26th, at 6.65 a.m., parcels .are forwarded by this-mail. Due in London on 11th June. !i

'A stofinfif unusuarviolence passed over Te Aroha yesterday afternoon, the watertables and creeks were filled to overflowing in a few minutes, The rain continued during the afternoon, but so far no damage is reported. \

Prospecting at Te Archa still continues 'with unabated energy, several new parties have been organised recently. The Stoney Creek Syndicate have unearted another reef running through their, claim, which carries a little; gold whgre broken down. They have several tons of quartz to bring down to the battery as soon as the track is cleared..

An old man named David Snodgrass, a resident-of Paeroa, was < found drowned in the Auckland harbour on Saturday last. It appears that deceased went to-Auckland by steamer on Thursday, and had not been heard of till found in the harbour, Mr Snodgrass was 76 years of age, and was one of the 'pioneers of the Thames, arriving there, in 1867. The body will he buried at Paeroa this afternoon.

The Ohinemuri County Council have ah advertisement in another column, announcing that the Electoral Rolls and the Defaulters list are \ open for inspection at various places in the different ridings. A party of.prospectors from ydromandel have completed a trial crushing of one ton of quartz for the excellent .'return of 11 ounces of gold, valued at .£3 9s per ounce. Thereof from which the quartz was obtained was first discovered bn the outskirts of Coromandel on private property, but they after,wards, traced it into Crown land, and secured from it the abovementioned crushing.

Josh Billings says that most men concede that it looks foolish to see a boy dragging a heavy sledge up a hill for the fleeting 'pleasure of riding down again. But it appears to be that boy is a ;sfl,ge by the side of a young man who works hard , all the week and drinks up his wages on Saturday night. 7 .7. ? ' : '7\_7. .

Digdale Colliery (Staffordshire) was re•cently the scene'of a’ s terrible mining accident by which-a humber of me : and boys were- entombed in-, the- workings - below. These, for the most-part, were attracted to the Wesleyan Chhrch, being members of the Wood-lane and Audley .churches, A large amount of practical .sympathy has been evoked in aid of the families whose bread-winners have been thus suddenlycut off, and Wesleyans, as also the general public all over England, have - sent .very generous help. Speaking at the annual greeting of the TJ.M.F. Church, Neweastle-under-Lyne, Mr Whir. Allen, M.P. for the borough, referred to the accident, and bore testimony to the high Christian character of many of those who had lost their lives, whilst the conduct of those who formed the rescue party was more heroic and worthy of distinction than that of soldiers who had won the coveted honour of wearing the Victoria Cross. ; >

A professor of faith-healing, named Dowie, has been arrested in Chicago for cruelty, harshness, etc., to patients. He has three hospitals, and is making .£2OO a week. The people evidently have not the faith to be healed at . home. It was claimed that a cancer had been instantaneously healed, A London physician says it was a case of abscess, which was already flowing by natural process. The doctors speak of ‘cure by suggestion,’ and admit that nervous diseases may be temporarily , or, even permanently cured by lifting the patient into ah expectant and exhilarated frame of mind. , I