Odds and Ends

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1767, 4 September 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends

Spring weather. Te Aroha footballers victorious iti their contest with Wiiiprpngomai and Waihou. The Bank Bill passed the second read"

log: • 7 The new ‘Guide to Te Aroba ft t present on the press, and will be published early.next month. • . Ray F-,. D. Evans has recovered from bia;recebi accident.

Mr Caverhill, ono of the victims of the great: Hawerafi re* was a<SQabf7Mr-.Ca verbid, )§te of Te Aioha. Wesleyan Sunday School have trained a choir for the Mission services next week.

Railway authorities are re*decking the railway bridge. Rev Mr Joughin is expected home this week, Mrs Joughin i* much hotter.

No less, than 20;000 acres were pegged out in the Upper Thames mining district dur'ng the month of August. ■ ; Stoney Creek Syndicate have despatched a rock of gold-bearing ; quartz to the Auckland sharemarket. A meeting of Golden Crown shareholders is advertised to be held in the News Office to-morrow evening. Seventy trucks ore from Loyalty is being crushed at Waiorongomai battery. Loyalty ore is expected to be through this week.

StarHt-pell, a local 30 acre developed claim, is to be floated next week. The mining boom appears to have slackened off somewhat during the last few .days- ? A Te Aroha Prospecting Syndicate has been formed with a view to the advancement of the mining industry. The l’e Aroha West Creamgry'wiil open on Monday next, the 9th inst.

F!>lr cheap envelopes and note paper try News Office..

The value of the wool sent away from Sydney since January is £2,515.129. Since January Ist to the 25 h ult., the value of the imports of Svdnev was £7.207,292, and of exports £7,284,549. Last week a woman went to the Police Court in Dunediiraod asked to be locked -up, n 8 BheJiad.no home and no place to go t<*. '• V ; - 'j: Tire health. bfficeri- at Thursday Island has Been enquiring into the great prevalence of skin disease among the natives on the mainland.

The natives interested in the Wairarapa Lake are again bringing the question in .dispute -regarding; the Lake before the House. „

Frosts have done great d mage to the tugar cane the Bundaberg districts in patehe«j%ut; rlie dnirnnge is not go heral. The vignerons of South Australia have asked the Government to adopt urgent measures tb prevent the spread of the cbdlin mptb pest. . Atseribusbuthreak of disease has oc-;cnrred;ameng%-raob of 800 cattle travelling from Taldora, about 250 miles from Hughenden, to the Torrens Creek Boilingdown Works. v

The advances made from the Diiry Fund understhe Meat and Dairy Produce Encouragement Acts in Queensland amount to L 2264 14s, and the bonusus paid on butter exported to L8916s Bd. A/three-year old child of Mr Chas. Grigg, Carterton, bad the misfortune to break his arm just above the wrist through falling off a sofa. In Australia horses and cattle are now being branded by electricity from storage batteries. The temperature is uniform, and the brands safe and artistic.

At a small public meeting held at Cooktown it was resolved to request the Minister of Mines to order the immediate exrm’sion of the Chinese from the Sarcke goldfi-Id. Th ‘ in coined gold imported at Sydney since the beginning of the year is valued at £1,199,506, and the export at £446,295. The gold coin sant away represents £1,730,324.