Odds and Ends.

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

Odds and Ends.

Paeroa sale to-morrow. Weather still unsettled. Another severe snow storm in Otago. Pegging out at Te Aroha and Walorongomai continues. , Grand concert at Waharoa oh Friday evening next. Y.P.S.C.E. Society meet to-morrow evening in St. Mark’s Church, Monthly meeting of the Town Board oh Saturday evening next. The R,ev T. A. Jougbin has gone to Hokianga for his mid-winter holidays. The Piako County Council meet at Morrinsville to-morrow.

Mr E. B. Walker, of the Waikato, has pegged out a claim at Stoney Creek. Hon and Mrs Ward arrived in Auckland on Sunday by the Warrimoo. A drunkard’s throat has no bottom to it. Some people do not recognise their obligations when they meet-them. A dealer in artificial limbs estimates that 300,000 Britons have lost one or both legs. Work has been resumed in the old Morning Star, at present held by Mr J. Williams. -An advertiser has 8000 barberry plants to dispose of, in lots to suit purchasers. Twenty lives lie between the Emperor of Germany and the British throne. The ground known as the ‘ run’, opposite ,Mr G. Lipsey’s residence, is how being fenced. ■' ' ■

The. attendance at the Waiorongomai school is rapidly increasing ; • at present it is larger than it has been for a long time past, ’ ■ - "Anybody can see through people who make spectacles of themselves. ‘ The man who agrees with us doesn’t come round here often enough. The optimist is he who . insists upon believing that everybody is comfortable because he is. The world is sadly in need of an invention that will warn people when they have talked enough. ■•■ v - teacher: Johnny, can you tell me what isith&defmition of joy ? Johnny: Yes’m. It’s An Irish, chiropodist announces that he has removed cornes from all the crowned heads of Europe. Their courtship was full of romance, WO;3 it not ?- Very. Neither one of them told the other'the truth. The New Zealand Government are legislating to .provide safeguards in-regard to. the adoption of'children. In Russia you fnust marry before eighty or not at all, and you may marry only five times. ; .. > if! The Russian Government has under consideration the construction of a railway to the Persian boundary, by way of Baku. Terra-cotta sleepers are in use on Japanese railroads. The increased cost is compensated for by the greater resistance to decay. The new photograph of the heavens which is being prepared by London, Berlin aud Parisian astronomers shows 68,000,000 stars.

The new yacht which is being built for the Czar at Copenhagen is to be fitted with with every modern appliance, and will cost ■£45,000. It will be the largest yacht afloat. Messrs Hellaby Bros, have had on exhition a pig which when dressed, weighed 7771b5, probably the largest ever grown in Auckland; it was of the Yorkshire breed. The Government are pushing on the [ Trunk Railway between the Mokau and the Poro-o-Tarao Tunnel. The ballast train will now. run up to the Mokau three times a week with materials for the line. Your neighbour appears to have failed a good many times. Just 24 times, The next will be his silver bankruptcy. The man Kelly, who is alleged, to have given poison in mistake for rum to abori-’ gines at Ternmount, causing their death, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. A detective named Roche has been committed for trial for manslaughter • at Sydney. In arresting a man named Ernest Gill the detective struck him a blow, from which it is alleged he died. _ About 100 post-offices are to be abolished in Victoria, most of which are sihaH’ihired offices, whore the business does not exceed three or four letters a day.' A saving of •62000 per annum is estimated. < •