Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 19 June 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Showery weather; Snowfall in the South. . Mining interest continu'd. Parliament opens on Thursday. Native meeting at Paeroa next week. Collision in Sydney harboiir, ferry boat sunk.

Business still brisk on the Stock Exchange; V Paerod, footballers defeated the Waihl team by 3 points to iiil on Saturday last. The Maori king, Tawhaio, is expected to pass through Te Afohaen route for Paeroa, he will stay at the Pah on Thursday evening and leave for Paeroa on Friday; The football match played on Saturday last between Karangahake and Te Aroha Jtiniors resulted in a' draw, neither side scoring;.' . ■ -.y : ■■■■■■■. > During April 2,437,785 feet of timber, valued at i>ld,o6B, wero shipped at Kaipara (Auckland) for Victoria, New South Wales,: South Australia, and Queensland. - The Blenheim papers state that at the factory at Spring Creek, during the season just ended, 13.310 sheep, .15,241 laidbs, 50,000 legs, shoulders, and ilaunclies, and 228 cases of tongues Were treated,. An exchange says a dentist at Christ church got a surprise the.other day. A lady With a vinegar visage , who .had seen, fully seventy summers, before inhaling the gas, said to the tooth extraCter— ‘ You will promise faithfully not to kiss me while I’itt' Unconscious, won’t you.’ lie promptly promised.

Mr-B W Dyer solicitor of Kta.mil ton, has been appointed to conduct the case for- the Piako County Council against the-Waikato County Council in the Supreme Court, in the licensing expenses case In ohe Week recently ho less than 49,000 sacks of oats were sent away from the Bluff by sea* or 9,000 sacks more than in any previous week .v. ■ ■

Mr Wattam, tlie recently appointed Foreman of Works for the Piako County Couni cil, intends residing in To A:roha and has •taken Mr Cochrane’s’ house. • ■ ... ,