LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1771, 18 September 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. |P. Jones will hold his usua’ monthly sale in tho Te Aroha Town Hall, on Saturday next. Mr, Harry Tonge is acting age at and will receive entries of goods, etc., for the auction. /

• TKe following players will represent Te Aroha in the; football match against Karr Angabake ‘to. be played ■ at" Te - iAroha on Saturday next, the 21st inst. Full-back, •p’ocock • three-quarters ,* Gregory, Gorrie, Reunick (capt.); halves, Pavitt, Buchan, Keesing; forwards, Moon, William, Pascoe, Forrest, Lewis, Comes, Lipsey and Dawson.

a sham Viscount haS.been sentenced to three years’ penal.servitude at Portsmouth for bigamy. He is said to have married eleven wives, some of whom he left penniless after possessing himself of their belongings. The Chinese are gradually working their, way to the interior of Formosa. Rutting down the forests, and replacing them with indigo and tea plantations. Much of the #Ol,l is fertile. |n some ; places -there are thrife/Jriee harvests in a \year; and tea leaves/arR Ricked in many '; places Seven'.tiihes a-year. l ; ; if. Tho Rev J. O’Bryan Hoare, in A lecture at Chr stchurch oir‘ Woman and Religion,’ said: “That children should risej up and call her blessed is a better reward for any mother than high achievements in politics, or distinction in society.” -?

A Liverpool man, an ex convict, was oh the. point of- marrying his own daughter the other day without knowing fit. After his release from prison "he made money, oh the turf, and being unable to trace his wife, he is said to have proposed to ! a young woman under an assumed haino. The wife aopaerei upon the scone for the marriage ofv.-hef daughter, only to recognise, the brilegroom as husbaud- ; Thinking he had-died in prison, 1 sho had- hersblf married .again.-', - ' ' >", j

>' A remarkable System of electric light oh jbuoys has just been completed jat the Gedney Channel, off Sandy Hook. This channel is only, I,oooft wide, -and vessels have not heretofore been able to passi through it by night. The new system,' howouer, provides ii brilliant thorbughfare, lighted by ten incandescent lights of 100' candle power each, and each on a bony about 60ft long, and rising 12ft out of water. The cable which conveys; the electricity carries the pressure of 1000 volts under water, and is six miles and long, being the longest cable in the carrying 'a high-preasure current underwaterjhhd also the only one of its kind eyeiv; made, Tt consistS of a copper conductor; .insuiatei; with :'gqtta. bedded -iij :jnte, ahd. shep.thod with hard drawn vire. The machines'have an output of' Only 100 volts, but the current flows through a step-up converter, back of the switch-board, where it is converted into the required voltage, being perfectly safe to operate.

A Wellington paper, "mentioning that a number of girls from twelve to sixteen years of age may be seen in the streets of the city late at night, laughing, joking and flirting with boys and youths, remarks that the influence- of .Chinamen as demoraiisihg eg mts is as nothing compared with the carelessness of European and - Colonial parents. Tho following tenders have been received for clearing.ouf and repairing old drive, etc.,'in Golden Crowa mine, and driving an additional 50 feetC.' Murphy," clearing and repairs, etc., £4 ; driving, 9s 9d per ■foot (accepted).; W. A. Biggs, clearing and repairinfev’etcV/; I driving, 13s 6a per foot j ' W/McLean, clearing and repairing, etc., j 69 ; driving, £1 7s 31 per foot; Gooding and Fawcett, clearing and repairing, etc., £7 10s; driving, 13s 10s per foot.

Messrs Hetherington, and Co _ have startling replace ' advertisment < in ; ; their; usual spaco of this; iasuo. The new goods ; for Spring and Suin.mer seasons are'now-j opened up and arranged for display at their business premises. They invite the ladies of this district to call and inspect their choice stock, which will be found good value. r

In sawing through a white oak log, thtfee feet in diameter,'a few days ago, a sawyer at Blanchester. Ghio, came across the da^e, 1780 carved in the/wood near fhe middle bf : ‘ the log. The figure's were very distinbfc.‘ t The carving was, doubtless, done when the tree was young, and in some way the wood grew around and over it without filling up the carved furrows. ’•

//We are to announce thatMessrs Hetherington and Co., Drapers, has secured the services of a first-clq.s dressmaker, aud will be prepared to receive orders on and after the 28th of this month. Hetherington and Co. respectfully solicits the patronage bf their customers,and the public generally; The mew Venture will Re brougnt more prominent before the residents of the surrounding districts in much larger type at an early date.

The committee of the Te Aroha Horticultural Society met on Monday evening 'lapt. Mr Strange,;Vice-president, occupied the chair, there was~ only a small attendance: of- members present. ~ Considerable disdussiQU took place re the forthcoming ‘Plover Show and Industrial. Exhibition, and various mattors of detail-Arranged, ft Was decided to ask the following'gentlemen ie- abt Art and penmanship, Mr EinhewV flowers, Mr Hugh ’Eoss; Essays', Mr. W. S. Allen: Meolianial work and Collections.'Messrs' N.|'KeUny and J. M. Eobson. The lady members of the show committee are to meet and appoint judges for needle, and fancy work, etc. It t was further decided to make another class for children between the ages of 14 and 1G yeatsf- So that those over the school ages will noji be debared from the Competition.

It will be seen by advertisement that Mr F. Tonga has commenced business in Te Aroha under the style of F. W- Toiige and Co./ Drapers, MillenersJ etc. This firm in- : tend cehfimug -themselves to the cash system, and hope to merit a share of public patronage; Besidea keeping drapery, boots, and A shoeaii; ithey/. purpose devoting Special p,tten|ipu to millinery aod dressmaking,;whicii/will'bo' under tberpersonal superyiaibn pf Mrs F. Tonge. who ha,s had large exphr-iehee in the, best Melbourne houses. Thhpremises occupied some time ago by Mrd), D. -Macnicol , have beeb re.novated, and-are now opened as a general drapery stohe.- '' - ’ - ■ " ArOfcyore Rurnisbiug P The best and cheapest stock is at ‘The .People’s’ Furnish- - ing Warehouse,.Auckland. J. Tonson Garlick is deioiimiuOd to maintain the position held so long for giving best value in furnishing gobdiO He is selling-very cheap, all kind of Furniture, Carpets, Carpet Squares. Linoleqnu, ", Iron Bedsteads, Woven Wire Drapery and He furbishes a house throughout, said- sends anTHustrated cat, alogurO : fedutondingibuyers., Write;! to J. Toiison 'GAptick, 1 Qneoh-street, Auckland,