Odds and Ends

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1772, 21 September 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends

Tenders wanted by Waihi G. M. Co. services going on at Paeroa, A mine has been pegged off at Kati Kati. Rumours of rich |reefs unearthed at Waiorongomai. Thames Borough Council have an en do ment to be leased. General Booth has left the Cape for New Zealand; - ■ .. Messrs Hetherington and Co.’s startling Replace advertisement appears on the first ijpage of this issue. - Te Aroha is well supplied with visitors just now. . ’ ' ‘ Football match in Mr G ; Lipsey’s padclock this afternoon; Te Aroha v Karangahake. •'’//■■ •>. -W The amount of milk taken to. the creameries in this district is increasing, daily. The; usual meeting of Y.P.S.C.E. in St. Mark’s on Thursday evening; close on 50 young people present. . The work of improving’ the condition of: Bridge-street is being pushed on by our Town Commissioners. V Good sale at Waitoa yesterday. The assay value of bullion treated by the Crown Mine, Karangahake, last month waß J 2.337. . Germany has 26,000 of the 51,000 breweries said to be in the world. Rice is said, to be the staple food of nearly one-half of the human race. Although diligent search has been made in the Auckland Harbour for the body of Mr Robert Mahoney who is supposed tp have been drowned last week, no traces of it have been found. Didn’t see it. Fat—Aar ye good at arithmeteg Mike ? Mike —Oi am. Pat— Well, if ye had a suv’rin, and Oi axed for ten shillings how much would ye have left ? Mike (decidedly): A suv’rin. Pat —Ah yez don’t seehi to see my idea! Mike —No; an’ ye won’t see .my ten shillin’.