Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1740, 18 May 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.

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Captain Edwin wived at noon yesterday as follows:—-‘ Strong west to south and south-east winds with much colder weather, and. glass rising.’’j ‘ ■• - The subject of Mr J. A. Norrie’s address m the To Aroha Public Hall to-morrow evening will be the * Gospel Ship.' All seats are free and visitors - will be welgpmr.d. . - Lieut'i'Co!onel Goring presented Mr -T Haaby with Mr Mclndoe’s medal at the inspection parade on Tuesday evening last.

The Pialco County Council have an advertisement in another column inviting applications from persons desiring the position of Foremen of Works. Full particulars as to duties etc. may ,he obtained orr application to Mr Gilchrist, County Clerks

Japanese Plums are gaining a good reputation in this country. They are most vigorous growers, and retain their foliage much later than other varieties of the prunes family. Tb.e fruit is exceptionally large and handsome. In flavour they do not equal some of our old English plumes, but the market value is much greater. The Kelsey was the first introduced to New Zealand, has been supersede ! by Burbank, which is in every way the best. The Te Aroha Wesleyan service to-mor-row evening will take the form of an evangelistic service, which will be conducted by Messrs Bell; A. J. Carr and A. Norrie. Daring the evening Mr Carr will sing a sacred solo. .

Mr Pavitt, on behalf of the Waitoa Boad Boad,.invites tenders for clearing, ti-iree on Stanley's road, also about 80 chains on the Matamata. Boad near Waitoa, and for deepening drains at Waharoa. Specifications can be seen at Mr Pavibt’s office, and tenders must be addressed to the Chairman, Morrinsville, on dr before Saturday next, the 25 th in3t.

Mr Beuben Parr, who i- foreman of works for Mr Bew on his Bridge-sweet contract, felt his dignity somewhat wounded by the report of the Works Committee as laid, before the. recent meeting of the Te Aroha Town Board. Tho objectionable words being “that the work was being done in a disgraceful manner.” It appears that the Works Committee, consistiug-of two members of the Board (Messrs Hetheringtou and Hotchin), are not agreed between themselves upon certain details of the work, one orders one thing and the other another, consequently the men are hindered with their work and unable to proceed. This is manifestly unfair to the contractors and toav entail considerable loss of time and money to him, and it is just questionable whether or not it could be reoovei-ed from the Board. We would respectfully suggest •that as the Board are anxious to do without the S' rvices of an engineer, that one member alone should act as Inspector of Works. Either of the above named members of the Works Committee could act in the above capacity. Mr Parr repudiated the assor'iori, and says everything is being done according to.specifications. . Yause Bros, intend paying Te Aroha a visit with their grand panorama of the world bn Thursday evening, the 23rd inst. These exhibitions, we learn, have been well patron'sed throughout the Waikato. ■ The programme for the concert in aid of the Te Aroha Goldfield's School funds will be found in another part of this issue. The programme is an exceptionally good one, and, no doubt, it will attract a ltfrge audience. • "■ .■. ;

For all fungoid-diseases, smut, moss, and similar disorders which fruit trees’are subject to, the most effectual remedy is lime and sulphur mixture.; To make this, boll 12lbs unflached lime and -lOlbs sulphur in sufficient-. water to dissolve. Dilute the mixture to 30 gallons and apply as a winter d ’easing milk warm • use a little weaker in summer. This is a thoroughly reliable solution.

The horses belonging to tho Auckland Tramway Company which were sent to Paeroa and sold by Messrs McNicol and Co. on 'Thursday last realised good prices, ranging from <£3s to <£l2 103 each. The usual Wesleyan Service will not he held at Shaftesbury to-morrow morning in consequence of the increasing demands of other portions of this extensive circuit, the authorities have decided that for the present the services will be discontinued. A church of England service will be held . there at 11 o’clock to-morrow morning. We have, to acknowledge tho receipt l of Messrs D, Hay and Son’s new catalogue' of nursery stock for 1895 and 6. The work has heeen printed at tho Herald office, and reflects credit upon their workmanship. The catalogue i 3 replete with every description of novelties, fruit and shelter trees, flowers etc., and conveys some idea’ of the extensive stocks carried by this old established firm. Messrs Hay and Son are the introducers into New Zealand of the nowcelebrated Japanese plum, Japan walnut, and other valuable fruits. It will be seen by reference to Messrs McNicol and Co.’3 advertisements that they have received instructions from Mr W. Hodgson to sell the whole of his farm stock and implements on the 30th List. Judgiug by the amount of new land recently taken up in this district this should be an opportune time for the settlers and also for the buyers. -

Messrs Carr and Norrie will conduct the Wesleyan service at Te Aroha West tomorrow, afternoon. Mr Carr will alsq sing a sacred solo during the service.

The Hew Zealand Workers’ Union are asking .the Government to accept the names of unemployed from secretaries o" unions, instead of having the men visiting the bureaux and police stations day after day. . A St. Petersburg telegram declares that Japan claims the right to hold Port Arthur until half the indemnity is paid, Weihaiwei until the whole is paid, and Corea until a settled condition prevails in the .country, and its independence is secured. Information for alleged {embezzlement has beeu laid by Mr Grevelle, the Government auditor, against Mr J. Heard, the city rate collector. It is alleged that a. shortage of <£l94 has been discovered in the accounts. The examination of the books is not yet completed. The natives at Te Whaiti (Urewera Country) have threatened to tie up the l ative guide for Mr Phillips, the surveyor engaged on roadwork operations, if he was determined to proceed with that officer to show him the country or the trigs. The Government, through Inspector' Emerson, have been made acquainted with this state of affairs. Colonel Goring has received instructions from the Defence Minister (Hon R. J. Seddon) to hold the Permanent Artillery in readiness to again proceed to the Urewera,, if their services are required. Mr Hone Heke, M.H.R., is of the opinion that the disturbance is of no importance, and simply' Jfcho outcome of ' j ealousy between two sections of natives over the employment by surveyors of native guides. Mr Elkin, surgeon dentist, late of Carter and Elldn, Auckland, is at present professionally visiting Te Aroha, and may be consulted at the 'Palace' Hotel until Wednesday next. Mr Elkin’s reputation as a fiiifc-elass" dentist is well-known Persons requiring any description of dental work shot*.ld avail themselves of this opportunity of consulting Mr Elkin. The coming peach is ‘ Elberta,’ It has been planted in the United States in hundtids of thousands. Tab best canning peach is ‘ Muir,* a medium late with yellow iieah. The Californian seedling known as * Wager’ is identical with ‘ Muir.’ This peach is now being taken up and planted by Hew Zealand fruit growers ; it promises to yield good returns.

A. Tramp Esq., writes as follows to the New Zealand Herald:—From the cut of the other pornonsof infantry garb, some of onr army tailors must have served their apprenticeship to the business in a prison Why; the very worms would be ashamed to make a meal of a volunteer who happened to he buried in his regimental rags, Our brave boys are of all lengths, shapes, makes, and sizes, hut their uniforms seem all blocked out cf the one measure,' There does not appear to be any regulation height for our army, and when it is drawn up in a line it 100 is like an animated diagram of the fluctuations of a kauri gum market.

Since Corrigan was killed at Cauldfield on August H, 189-4, the following jockeys have been killed in Australia: —Cooper, New South Wales; Cornish, New South Wales; Sheen, Queensland; Ward, New South Wales; Hampton, Queensland; Stewart, New South Wales ; Sheehan, Victoria; Callaghan, Victoria; Elliot, New South Wales; Hiley, New South Wales; Campbell, New Zealand ; and H. Cusdin, Victoria. It will be seen that neither South Australia nor Tasmania has contributed ■ to these fatalities, Martin Burke .was nob actually killed in tho rac9, as he met with his accident while schooling a horse.

A daring case of bank- raiding,-with terrible consequences all round, is reported in telegrams from Aden, in lowa. Becently ’two well-dressed but unknown men entered the State bank in that town and. immediately called upon the cashier, named •Leech, to‘hold his hands up.’ They ware, met with a prompt refusal, whereupon one of the men fired at the cashier, who has since succumbed. A customer who had been /doing' business- with Leech sought to escape, but wa,3 shot by tbe second man and seriously wounded. The two robbers then hastily emptied the open coffers and decamped with 15,000d015., entering a wellhorsed carriage which had been loft standing a short way from the bank. Mean-; wMle*.an alarm had been raised, aud a number of mounted citizens started in pursuit of the. desperadoes. 4 * The conveyance was overtaken about five miles outside the town, but the robbers made off on foot. One was soon captured in a neighbouring wood, and; securely hound. The second, wa3 seen to take refuge in a barn some distance away, and as the excited mob could not force an entrance they set the building on fire at several points. After a while the fugitive rushed out screaming, and .wita his hair ablaze; but as he was still armed, and Refused to surrender, the crowd opened fire on him* and shot him dead. .The captured robber was subsequently driven back to Adel, and lodged in gaol. Are you Furnishing? The best ahcl cheapest stock is.at ‘The People’s’ Furnishing Warehouse, Auckland. J> Tousqn Garlick is determined to maintain the position he'd so long for giving beet value in famishing goods. He is selling very cheap, all kind 'of- Furniture, Carpets, Carpet Squares, Linoleum, Bedding,} .on BedtV' o ad.3, Wovea Wire Mattresses, Furaisbin", Drapery and Bamboo Blinds. He furnishes a house throughout, and aoav.s an i!tmtrv red catalogue. to intending buyers,' Write > J. Tonson Gablice, Qneen-s l ;vaat, Auckland.