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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1753, 24 July 1895, Page 2

The Auckland election contest closes today. The fight ia a keenly interesting one, each party putting forth every effort to re-, turn their man. The result will he anxiously looked for.,

The programme of the concert to be held in the Public Hall to-morrow evening in aid of the Brass Band funds will be found in another column. The programme is .a good one and so is the object of tho concert, no doubt bdth together will draw a crowded house; ~• : -- The next-meeting; of the Te Aroha Warden’s Court will;, be. held on Friday next, the 26th inst. A large nurndey of cases are set fiown for hearing on that date.

The Hoh R Seddon is destined to have his name immortalised and handed down to posterity. Several of Te Aroha’s speculative spirits have pegged out another 50 acres at Waiorongomai, and have shown their appreciation of theF&tmertty.caUin#' the claim after him, ‘ The Seddon Special Claim,’ • The new settlers on the Manawaru'Estate are pushing on with their improvements, several have completed fencing, others are draining, clearing ti-tree, etc. When the Waitoii Road Board have cleared? the drains, and, opened up the road Works they are calling tenders for, it will still further further improve the proporty and give the back selectors access to their sections,

The attention of local fruit-growers is directed to Cook’s Codlin Moth and Scale Insecticide advertisement, which appears in another column. It is acknowledged to be the most successfml remedy yet known for destroying every description of injurious pests, iuc’uding Codlin Moth, Mealy Bug, White Cottony Scale, Black Seals, American Blight, Leech, Borer, Cabbage Fly, Cabbage Caterpillar, Bronze Beetle, and every kind of insect pests; Sold in quart tins at 2s 6d each. Testimonials and other particulars can be obtained on application to the News Office.

Dr O’Hara deposed in Melbourne the other day his regular < h u - ge for removing an adult leg was 100 guineas, and the job took about five minutes. ‘ However,’ he added,;* sometimes these fees are paid at the rate of a shilling in the <£.’ So that all men don’t cut up well. By the San Francisco mail, Canon Nelson received news that his nephew, Mr Basil Nelson Tebbs, of Queen’s, College, Cambridge, o i of the late "Rev W. Tebbs, M A., formerly vicar of St. Matthew's, had just taken his degree of B. A., being placed in the first class of Natural Science Tripos list. Mr Tebbs received his education at the Auckland Grammar School and the University-* College of Auckland. These institutions have reason to be proud that in one year they have supplied two firstclass honour men at Cambridge, the other, as our readers will remember, being Mr MacLaurin,,of St. John's college, Cam--bridge, who was placed as a Wrangler, that is to say, first-class in mathemetical horiours. ” . . '

Newspapers are always “ tilting” at the encore ” system at public concerts; but such is the vanity of the majority of singers that it seems hopeless to put down the practice. I wonder if a singer ever realises that bis response to an encore is a bore to put up with, even of the people who demand it. His ear does not seem to distinguish between that burst of- enthusiastic applause which means a sincere redemand for an item and that more measured, but still kindly meant, clapping which is intended simply as a compliment. The more appreciative an audience the better will be the performance,-but the simple and. dignified way of responding to an encore by bowing your acknowledgements never seems to strike a 'performer unless haply he has forgotten—for once—to bring an encore song along, And he doen’t often fprget it,

Mr E. P. Jones, of Jones and Sanderson, | will hold an auction sale in the Te Arona Public Hall on Saturday next, commencing at 2 o’clock. We understand Mr Jones will introduce a buyer of poultryand produce for Ohinemuri, so that settlers having these to dispose of should not fail to send them in. The sale will consist of furniture, produce, etc. Entries are solicited and may be lert with Mr P. Tonge, local agent. „ Some New York undertaken, whose customers are poor ’:people, are using coffins made of paper; The coffins' are made in all styles out of pressed paper pulp, antl » after being varnished and stained they semble polished wood. It is asserted that they are far more durable than wooden ones. Mr Barney Barbato, the diamond king, went out to Africa with his brother when he was yet a lad, and the two penniless youths, who are now millionaires, knew what it was to suffer the pinch of poverty. In the early days in South Africa the brothers used to turn an honest penny by performing conjuring tricks in public.

In connection with the rock which the steamers Waihora and Anglian reported grazing when proceeding into the Gisborne roadstead, Captain Fairchild has wired the Government, and, a copy of. the telegram has been received by the Collector of Customs for this'port (Mr A. Rose). .It is as follows ‘ Captain (Pairchild has. found rock in Poverty Bay with ten feet on it at low water sfpriug tides. -It is-.fully half a mile further out than anything shown on the chart, and is very dangerous being almost in the track: of vessels. A red buoy has bepn placed on west side of rocks. Tua Mqtu bears east, north, and Pah Hill north north-east from rock. - Kindly warn vOssels leaving for Gisborne. It will no doubt interest our local Volunteer’ readers to knbw that they have been invited by the Officer Commanding tb® District tojbe, present at the DriU-shed,. Auckland, oh the 26th-insfc., to witness the ceremony of presenting the “ Volunteer Officer’s Decoration ” to several officers of the 'Auckland Garrison. This decoration consists of an oak wreath in silver, tied with goldV having in the centre the Royal Cipher and Crown in gold. No officer is eligible for the decoration unices he has served as a coinii|issioiied officer for twenty years in the voluhteer force. Any member of the Te Aroha teifl.es desirious of witnessing this ceremony are requested to send in their names to Lieut. Wild. . An amusing printer’s error recently occurred in-ene of the leading Paris papers which excited no smair amount of merriment at the expense of a man of real talent. The following paragraphs, intended to have been printed separately, were by some error so arranged that they read consecutively : * Doctor ——— has been appointed 'head physician of Hospital de la Charite. Orders have been issued by the authorities for the immediate extension of the cemetery of Mount Parnasse. The- works are being executed with, the utmost despatch.’

There is to be a picture exhibition of ‘Fair, Women.’.in London, Portraits of some of the most beautiful women ever painted will be on view, together with historic types of beauty.