Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1747, 3 July 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1895.

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We are pleased to learn, that the Te Aroha Brass Band have very kindly offered their services ;on behalf of the Foughey benefit concert to-morrow evening. 0 They will play selections outside the hall previous to the concert, and also the two opening overtures. This should add additional interest to the programme. The monthly committee meeting of the Horticultual Society was hold on Monday night. The proposed flower show for November was favourably received, and a sub-committee of ladies appointed to assist with details of the show. Several special prizes were offered for competition j the success of the show is assured.

The Selection Committee of theTe Aroha -Football Club have chosen the following players to represent Te Aroha in their match with Waihi on Saturday next, the 6th inst:—Full-back, H. Pocock; threequarters, Pavitt,'Woods, Gregory; halves, Keesing, Kirby; forwards, Comes,. Lewis,. Rennick, Smardon, Hamilton, Bucban, Roto Morgan and McLean. The match will bp played at Mackaytown, and the team will start from Smardon’s stable at 11 a.in.

A London paper has been hoaxed into publishing tho following in an article dealing with insects: —‘In New Zealand, where grasshoppers are more than abundant, they are used for food by Europeans. Grasshoppers are pronounced a great delicacy in New Zealand when prepared according to the following formula:—One bushel of the inseets is immersed two hours in half a gallon of pork brine. The insects are then boiled in the liquid for 20 minutes, then thoroughly rinsed in warm water and placed in an ovan to become crisp. When cold the heads are removed, and they are ready to be eaten. The flavour is said to resemble that of the shrimp.

A Frenchman was boasting- that he had thoroughly mastered the English language, when he was asked to write from dictation the following choice specimen of our eccentric vernacular : ‘As Hugh Hughes was hewing a yule’ log from a yew tree a man dressed..in garments of a dark; hue came up to B/ugh. and said, ‘Have you .seen my ewes ? To which ;• he replied; ‘lf - you will wait until I hew this yew I will go with you to look, for your ewes.’ ’ After an attempt the Frenchmen admitted his mis-

The Te Aroha Band of Hope held their usual monthly meeting in the Town Hall on Monday evening. - There was a . large attendance of juviniles and their friends present. Thq chair was taken by the .Presideht; the Rev F. G. - Evans. The prof . gramme' c<Sstsi s fcgd otsongs, recitations, etc.,' by the members, which were "well received by the audience. Mr F. Hanson, who is on the eve of his departure from, this district in search of fresh fields and pastures pew, was entertained byfew friends in .the old club room on Monday evening last. About forty sat down to the spread, which had been provided: by. Host Schultz, of the. Club .Hotel, after which the usual programme of songs, toasts, and liquor caused the time to pass only too quickly to those present. News comes of the establishment of a factory in America for the conversion of cheap horses into a fertiliser. A company haß been formed for the erection of abattoirs on the.Williamette, accessible for deep water vessels, where' horses will be killed by spearing, th§ flesh rendered of its oil* and the bones converted into fertiliser, the hides salted, the manes and tails being saved, glue prepared, etc. _

We would remind our readers that the benefit concert on behalf of Mr D. Foughey, of the Gordon Settlement, takes plape tomorrow evening in the Te Aroha Public Hall. Mr, Foughey has been unable to work for nearly two years, consequently his section has been going back on him, and the family have been obliged to sell off the stock to provide themselves with bread. This is really a deserving case and commends itself to the consideration of all. The best of local talent are taking part in the concert so that altogether apart from the fact that it is a benefit concert, a good evening’s entertainment may be looked forward to. ■ -

Owing to the great number of special claims that have been applied for, many of which, the Minister of Mines has been advised, have been taken up for speculative purposes, Mr Cadman lately, issued an instruction to the Warden that the clauses of the Mining Act with regard to the manning of ground should be enforced. A strong representation was made to him, by petition, to the effect that this would be impossible in the case of many bona fide leased which have been taken up, and which are in process of formation into companies'With ample capital to work. We understand that a telegram has now been received in Auckland from the Minister of Mines to the effect that, while the Warden must see that the law is not evaded in the case of purely speculative leases, ho will, of coarse have discretionary powers to grant reasonable protection when satisfied that the ground has been taken up with a bona fide intention of working it, and that the necessary steps for commencing operations are being pushed forward with all due despatch.—Advertiser. ' Jabez Balfour, who looks the kindest and most gentle of misused old gentlemen, has been brought up two or three times at Bow-street, and the endless charges against him partially gone into. The evidence shows more clearly than ever on each occasion what an extraordinary influence this remarkable man had over colleagues and subordinates. His method seems to ha ye been to get his company businesses by means of complicated cross transactions into a hopeless tangle, of which he alone held the key. If any of his colleagues displayed inconvenient curiosity or criticism, Jabez was quite equal to the situation. ‘ Either, gentlemen/ he would say, ‘ I must do things my way, or you must yourselves Shoulder the company’3 concerns. Just now we are not doing very well, and our contracts, etc., look far from promising. I shall ha delighted to hand over the responsibility to you.’ At the prospect of hav ng to take over an involve ! business, of which they were well aware they knew nothing, the good men blenched (as Balfour knew they would), and he was left to his own j devic. s. ■