LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1760, 17 August 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha Warden’s Court will be held on Friday next, the 23rd inst. Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday as follows• Indications for strong northeast to north and west winds, with rain after 16 hours from now—Glass fall.’ Mr E. P. Jones will conduct his usual monthly auction sale in Te Aroha on Saturday next. . A large number of entries have been received, some of which will he found duly advertised, - , The method in which the Kaiser goes grouse-shooting is thus described': A hut was specially built at the,.end of a ravine; and 80 beaters drove the birds past - it. Three attendants were kept busy loading guns, and the Imperial sportsman was thus enabled to keep up a continuous fusillade, and secure enormous bags. ■ For sometime previous to; the passing of the now famous Shops and Shop Assistants Act, which makes it compulsory to observe one half day in each week as a general holiday, the Te. Aroha business people had kept the' Thursday^afternoon; holiday,- but since- the-Act- came .tradespeople have not been so, particular. It is unfair for a few to close While others are allowed to keep open. The Te Aroha School Committee were petitioned to provide a looking glass. Was it for the lady teachers ? . Oh scissors! ;. A man named Arthur Rawlings was thrown out of , the Waihi coach, near Paoroa, on Wednesday, with the* result that his collarbone and right arm were fractured. -He was brought into Dr Forbes, who set the injured members, and he is now progressing as well as can be expected, Much sympathy is expressed with Mr and Mrs Lawton, of the Gordon Settlement, in the loss of their infant son, Mrs Lawton brought him into Te Aroha for" medical advice din Thursday, and early oh Friday morning died; A girl who occupies the position of a. pupil teacher in a State school, or a girl, who fills in her time by holding hasins 1 for medical men ; in Hospitals, dr a girl ‘who pursues a-season of flirtation’in a telephone bureau, is regarded as accomplished. She holds her head high' in the street, and when she passes the domestic she gathers her Blurts around her and turns up her nose. -And yet, when the occupations are compared, it Will he found that the domestic' is in every way more comely, more useful and more accomplished,'. If the present ambitions of mothers and daughters are pursued there will in a few years’ time he an army of useless, undomesticated, unhappy women in the Colony who. are totally unfitted for the avocations prescribed by Nature, and who will live to curse the arrogant conceit of their mothers.

■ At the Thames Police Court on Wednesday; before Mr Eyre Kenny; S.M., Herbert and Amelia Fell wore charged, under the Children’s Protection Act, 1890, with illtreating one Laura Fell, a child under 16 years, of age. Sergeant Gillies conducted the prosecution, but the accused were undefended. The male accused is the child’s father,' but : the- female accused is stepmother The evidence of Laura Fell, Fanny Thomson, Horatio Phillips, and David Me Quoid occupied the attention of the] Court f.tom 10,30 a.m to 6 p.m, and went to show that the female accused particularly had severely ill-treated the childby.beating.her continuously, find, keeping her in a. very dirty ‘ condition. She ’ had alsb, it Was stated, insufficiently clothed her, and had daily rubbed dripping on the child’s head in order to keep her hair out of curl. It was shown that this state of affairs had existed for the past two years.