LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1744, 22 June 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Maori King arrived in Te Aroha on Thursday, and left for Paeroa on Friday. The Solicitor-General is taking steps to test the validity of the cyanide patents in the colony during the forthcoming session. Mr Kelly, M.H.R., promised to support the application of the Ohinemuri Council for <£2700 for main road and prospecting tracks in the County) The Te Aroha Brass Band will play in the Domain on Sunday afternoon. A good programme of sacred music has been pre-; pared. v. '

The Te Aroha Brass Band intend giving an open air sacred concert in the Domain on Sunday afternoon, solos, anthems, etc. make up an attractive programme. Settlers, contractors, and others, who traffic with horses, drays, fanning implements etc. are asked to be on # the look ont for Mr D. McL. Wallace’s startling re-place advertisement to appear in next issue. We would remind our readers that the annual meeting of the Te Aroha branch.- of the British and Foreign Bible Society will be held on Tuesday, the 2nd prox, in the Public Hall. The Rev G. McMurray, of Auckland, Mr W, S. Allen, President, and others are expected to take part in the meeting. Capt. Edwin telegraphed yesterday as follows ‘ Indications for glass falling, and for strong N.E. to N. and W. winds.’ Notice has been served, on the principal claim holders, whose tailings are discharged into the Waipori River, Otago, at the instance of the farmers at Berwick, that unless the fouling of the river is stopped immediately they must seek relief from the Supreme Court. The matter has caused consternation among the miners. W. E. Thomas, surgeon dentist, may be consultod at the Palace Hotel till Monday morning.

A man was captured iu the streets of Paris while in the act of cutting off a young girl’s tresses. The whole of the victim’s back hair was found in his possession.

The Redding gift of the Pope to the Princess Hfelene d'Orleans is a sacred relic, handsomely set in gold, and thickly studded with brilliants and other precious stenes. While removing the flooring of a building in the Euston Road a box was found containing Elizabethan coins, in gold and stiver, and in a splendid state of preservation. I

A man in Bremen has invented a kind of ‘oil bomb’ for calming the waves, which can be fired X short distance. There are small boles in them, allowing the oil to run out in about an hour.

A football match will be played on the old race-course this afternoon between the Co-operatives and Townies. Play-to commence at 3 o'clock sharp. The following are the teams: —Co-operative: F. Pavitt, Lewis, Patty, Jansen, Dixon, Thomson, Aylward, Young (2), Sage, Hill, Latimer, Keesing, Nichols, Moriarty. Emergencies, Brown, Joe, Robinson, Fawcett, Grattan. Townies : Lipsey (2), Cornes, Hayes, Hamilton; Brevier, Buchan, Gregory, Simmonds, Briton, Ngahura, Beeson, Devey, Kirby, Harris,-McLean, Smith, J. Moon. s; . A cable message from Sydney dated the 19th inst, says that clouldsof grasshoppers are eating-what little grass is left in the northern part of New Caledonia, where not a drop of- rain has fallen for six weeks

At a recent mass meeting held in London, Dr Kate Bushnell added her testimony of the evils. that existed under the British flag in connection with the opiun? traffic. At Singapore she said, was a British prothetor of the Chinese; this ‘ protector ’ was also the man who registered the slave girls. In one case a girl had committed suicide, because she wanted to he ‘redeemed/ and the price asked was too large for a young man to whom she was attached, to pay. The price was 2,300d015. . The weather during the past week haß been exceptionally cold, on Thursday morning Te Aroha and Maungakawa was capped with snow, which disappeared about dinner time. On Friday morning there was one of the most severe frosts ever experienced in this district, the ground was covered with hoar frost, and in many places tanks and pumps were frozen. It continued to freeze till noon, at 11 o’clock the thermometer registered 4 degrees below zero. The sun did not get any power till afternoon, when the frost disappeared. Messrs Hetherington and Co. have a replace advertisement in their usual space in this issue, in which they announce the arrival of a large stock of winter goods, including woollen suits for gents, woollen dresses for ladies and children, also special lines of boots and shoes for winter wear exceptional value beiig offered in ladies English shoes. Being direct importers H. and Co. are able to give their patrons : the advantage they gain by saving the warehouseman’s profit. Their windows i and shoos are especially attract ve with a varied display of winter goods. <

We nnder3tard that in all probability there will be a change in the time of mail service between Te Aroha and Paeroa. Mr Rose, the Inspector of Post Offices, being of the .opinion that the mail should be despatched daily at a regular hour. It is proposed to leave Te Aroha' at' 9 a.m., returning from Paeroa at 1 p.m. This will be a decided gain fo the travelling public. Some time ago the Prince of Wales visited a factory where a great number of men were employed The Prince asked one _of the workmen, % What wages do men receive here ?’ * Well,’, replied the honest workmen, respectfully scratching his head and partially lifting his cap with the same hand, ‘ that depends on whatfthey is. A chap like you would get about eighteen hob a week.’

Operations have been going on for some time between the Coromandel Steamship Company and the Northern Steamship Company for the acquisition by the latter Company of the s.s. Coromandel and the Company’s rights in the Coromandel trade. A meeting of the directors of the Coromandel Company was held on Wednesday, when they decided to accept the terms offered by the Northern Company. The arrangement now only requires to have the formal approval of shareholders, which is said to be assured. We understand it is the intq#ion of the Northern Steamship Coihpanyfnot only to run the s.s. Coromandel.beit to meet the de&aiiid of the rapidly increasing Coromandel trade' by placing in the service another and more powerful steamer.

According to the Strand Magazine for April, Lord Randolph Churchill had a wonderful memory: —‘ He could repeat a whole page of verse or prose after having "once read it over. This being assorted at a country house where he was staying, and polite incredulityheing expressed, he offered a wager that he would, after once reading it over, recite,a page from any hook to be selected by his doubting friend. The wager was accepted, and a volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was taken down from the library shelf. The volume was opened at random. Lord Randolph read a page, and handing the hook over to * the umpire, recited every word without error or hesitation.’

Pumpkin or squash pie can be made as well without eggs, as with. Substitute a ppwdered craccer for each egg, and you will scarcely, know the difference. One of the most useful utensils in the kitchen is an artists’s palette knife. It will scrape pots, plates and pudding-dishes clean, oi which nothing else is of any avail. • ■■ . ■ .' . ■

A Gazette issued on Wednesday notifies that the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company intends to present a petition to the General Assembly this session, praying for leave to introduce a Bill to authorise the company to dispose of its property in a special manner. The objects of the Bill are to authorise the directors, local directors, and g ne. l attorneys in New Zealand of the i>ank of New Zealand Estates Company (Limited) to divide the whole or any part of its real and personal property into lots or shares of such values, and proportions as they think fit for the purpose of realising the same,' and to adopt such a mode oi device by chance or otherwise as they think fit, and to issue and sell" tickets entitling the holder to a chance of acquiring any of such lots or shares, and to distribute, convey, transfer and assign such property in pursuance of such mode or device.

A groom was kicked to death a year ago, near Rhyl, and the animal was got rid of. The employer then took the deceased’s ■ son into his service, and he has just been killed by the foal of the mare that kicked his father to death-

While in England, Mr Duthie, M.H.R, for Wellington, who returned to New Zealand on Wednesday, saw and Conversed .with Sir George Grey, who was far from strong. As to,Sir Geovge’s reported resignation, Mr Duthie says he gathered that it would be very gratifying to the old veteran if he were ulo.ved to retail his seat, an , that.it would be . very painful for him to resign; ‘So to speak, ’ said Mr Dnthie, • it would be like breaking the last link connecting him with his old active political life.’

. The highest price ever paid for a cow was 40,600 dollars, or over <£Booo, in New York. The top weights at the last Southfield show wore ti.e . first, prize shorthorn, 2760 lb (24cwt). Even the first prize Galloway ox turned the scale at 2251 lb, and a Hereford ox at 2218 lb. The shorthorn had put on flesh at the rate 6f 2-06 lb per day since his birth. ■