LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1749, 10 July 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin wired yesterday as follows :— ‘ North to west and south galo with inuch colder weather. Glass rise.’

The Waihi Company are now providing respirators for their employees, and doing all they possibly can to minimise the dust evil.

An inspection parade of tho Te Aroha Rifles will be held in the Public Hall this evening at 7.30 o’clock, when it is hoped that a good number will put in an appearance.

Mr T. E. Clough, our respected postmaster, has left for Sydney on a holiday trip. Mr Clough has been in indifferent health for some time past, and latterly was unable to carry out the duties of his office. We'sincerely hope the change will be for the better and that he will return with renewed health.

The recent heavy rains which we have had in this district, has had a bad effect upon the streets. Bridge-street is in a deplorable state, and is hardly fit for wheeled traffic.' We hope the Town Board, at their next meeting, will take some steps towards putting this much used street in a proper state of repair.

The monthly meeting of the Hot Springs Domain Board was held in the Domain offices on Saturday evening lasti all the members being present, Mr T. Gavin occupying the chair. There was very little business to transact, everything now working smoothly for the welfare of the sanatorium. Tho accounts were passed for payment. . Mr D: Foughoy has an advertisement in another column in which he returns thanks to all who contributed to the success of his benefit concert. We are pleased to report that the net result of the concert, including one or two small donations, was .£lO 3s. This amount has, been haided to Mr Foughey and will prove very helpful to him in his needy circumstances. At the recent meeting of the Waitoa Road Board it was decided to grant the request of the Manawaru settlers and clear out the drains'and repair the worst places on the Matamata road through the block. The engineer, Mr Pavitt, was instructed to call tenders for the work to be returnable at next meeting. . .

It was a matter of general regret when it became known on Saturday night that owing to the sudden indisposition of Professor Davis, his entertainment had to bo indefinately postponed. We hope at an early date to announce the Professor’s recovery and the fulfilment of his engagement.

An advertisement appears in our columns announcing the fact that Messrs Smardon and McKay have disolved partnership by mutual consent. The business will bd future he carried on by Mr E., Smardon under the style of Smardon Bros. Their reputation for civility and 'attention to business is well-known. The new firm hope to retain the confidence of the travelling public.

The Morrinsville- flax-mill is still working away, and notwithstanding only one stripper is at work a large amount of flax is put through. The motive power is supplied by a Pelton wheel, which works ad-mirably,-and as the price of fibre is at present ranging very low, the water-power enables the owners to run the mill at profit. There is every probability of the price of the dressed article rising ere long, when we hope to hear the local mills working away before many months are over. The steamer Manapouri reports having sighted large quantity of floating timber about 150 miles out from Sydney. For abont twelve miles timber was sighted on either side' of the vessel and she had to be slowed down. Captain Anderson says the timber was not kauri, but Oregon or Baltic pine.

Says the Dunedin Star : —The -virtue of self-denying benevolence reaches a high level in the case of a Dunedin laborer who, after handing over his promised subscription to the unemployed fund, had 3s left as his week’s wages. Yerily, it is more than a, mere saying that the poor are the best friends of the poor.

■ Mr Eddy, the New South Wales Railway Commissioner, is one of the most active out of the 1,500 delegates attending the Railway Congress. At the request of the Chairman, Mr Eddy addressed the Congress relative to express locomotives and signals used in New South Wales,; lie declared that a couple of six-wheeled locomotives for express trains resulted in notable economy aud safety. . He also eulogised the Webber-Thomson system -of . signals. The Congress thereupon adopted a resolution recognising the value of the system, enabling points and sidings on single lines to be blocked without stopping the trains. Mr Eddy’s views respecting precautions necessary against colour blindness were heard with great attention.

The Hon. J. G. and Mrs Ward arrived in Auckland from the Old Country by the Warrimoo on Sunday afternoon last, and were met by a large number of P. r ®“ me -. citizens, who welcomed the Colonial Treasurer hack; after his most successful voyage in the interests of the colony. News from Wellington states that the reception committee have d§finitely fixed Wednesday (to day) for the reception and Thursday night for the banquet. The construction ’&f the railway linebev tween here and Paeroa is jfow completed. The work, which has been carried out under the co-operative system, has been the means of providing employment for a number oi hands . for some considerable time past, most of whom have earned a fair average wage. Mr McAndrew,,-,-the ..engineer in charge, has had m a workmanlike - manlier, and "the line, as it now stands, is a eredit to those who have had the supervising of. same. Now that the line is an established fact, we hope to see the iron horse put on for. passenger and goods traffic.

A piece of Crown land in Pall-mall was on Saturday leased for a term of eight years at an annual rent of .£1,525, which amounts to 8s 6i per foot of the area, and is nearly equivalent to a selling price of half-a-milliou per acre, The plot was 60ft ?by 59 ft., and is situated nearly opposite Travellers’ Club. As several of the adjoining clubs stand on Crown land, and with leases that will soon fall in, the preseat transaction possesses interest for comr, if;ees of management. . A terrible revenge is reported from Michigan®, A'young man of 21 years name Hale was liarrifed to Miss Belle Hammond a girl, of IW After the ceremony the young couple wept to occupy a new house which Mr Hale /senior, Had given to the bride and bridegroom as present. Early next morning flames - were discovered issuing house, which had made such headway that escape for the inmates was impossible When" fch<3 firemen succeeded in putting out,the fire the bodies of and his 'hride of a day were recognition. It was afterwards discovered that the stairs and flooring had-been saturated with kerosene, and that greasy rags were stuffed under the carpets. A young man named John Allen has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the house. It is said that Miss Hammond was engaged to Allen before she met Hale, for whose sake she jilted her former lover, and it is surmised that for revenge he committed the terrible crime reported above. " Considerable interest is at present beingmanifested, in the work of pushing on the completion of the railway line from Paeroa to the Thames. Commenting on the above the Waihi correspondent of the Herald says: “ The action of the Ohinimuri County Council in refusing to aid Thames people in having the railway line extended from Paeroa to Thames savours more of selfishness than a desire for general prosperity, and as a consequence the decison arrived at has not met withigeneral approval j in fact, the'probability is that- had not the Thames local bodies 'loyally supported the Paeroa Council a few years ago, whe i the latter body were agitating for the completion of the line between Te Aroha and Paeroa, the two latter districts would not now have been connected as they ate by railway Of course the reason of the refusal to assist is that the Council has in view a line to Waihi, and they are afraid that if aid were given to Thames at the present time there would not be much chance of gaining their object. A . v /

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