Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1778, 12 October 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1895.

■ A purchaser is wanted for a tw-rooined house.* -. Wirths’ circus has been destroved by fire at Monte Video. ' -■ ' Mrs Clarke’B clearing-out sale takes place on Thursday next. Those desiring a variety of articles should attend, this sale. General Booth of “ Army ” fame_ has arrived in Wellington, and received" a great reception. We would remind those interested that Mr F. P. Jones’ auction sale will be held on • the 19th ihst. in the Te Aroha Public Hall. - As usual the Morrinsville cripketers are " to the fore this season, an enthusiastic meeting was held on Saturday evening last, • and the necessary preliminaries gone through; ~ t y Mr W. S. Allen will preach in the Ti Aroha Wesleyan Church to-morrow morniihg and l evening, thejsubjects of will be : Morning,' ‘ St Paul,’ and in the evening, ‘Quench not'the Spirit/ It is hoped there will be large congregations. ; At ,the Sydney Central, Police Court, Sarah Marshall was. charged under by-law 19 with painting an advertisement on the footway. Defendant was fined 20s, with 5s ’fid costs.. . ... . The last number of /.that.'jieat, little monthly magazine, the Helping Hand, has arrived, and like its predecessors, is full of ' interesting and instructive reading matter. .By the last Sydney mail the Te Aroha Volunteer Band received a. budget of new music by the best composers. The music includes some very nice marches, glees; ' etc., etc., and after a few practices we have no doubt the. residents and visitors will ;have the pleasure of listening to the sweet • strains, . • MessrS Hetheringtpn-'-and .• Co. have .a choice and artistic display of millinery in their show room* Ladies’ and children s head gear in rich profusion are to be seen drgssed in every conceivable style, and in the most charming design. The exhibition will continue during the day and this evening. ; ’ Mr J. M. Bell, Te Aroha's popular tailor, has just received a fine stock of coatings, tweeds, etc., which he has; displayed at his business premises, they are all new seasonable goods and yould do justice to a city shop. Gentlemen will do well to give Mr Bell a trial order,.he promises satisfaction and his charges are moderate. See advt. Mr F P. Jones, auctioneer and mining a»ent, has. taken up his residence in Te ' Aroha, and has commenced busir.em in t ie old Mail Office, next Mr J. M. Bell, w;hore Lo will attend to all commissions, mining and otherwise.' Mr .Tones will hold has next auction sale in the Public Hall on Saturday lie it, entries for which are solicited. ( Messrs Held and Dickson haye amalgamated their businesses and are now trading un ler the above title. They will centmue to carry on all the various departments of a well appointed aoachbuilding business. Host Smardon has an announcement m another column to the effect that he has opened his billiard room under a competent ' marker.

Waitoa lire stock sale on Friday next. The members of the T.R.V. mn3ter for Church parade in the Domain to-morrow morning at .10 o’clock, and will march, headed by the band, to St. .Mark’s, where a sermon‘ will- be preached by ..-Chaplain Evans. During the offertory the band will render one of their favourite pieces. About 1500 buffaloes have been killed on Melville Island, Northern Territory, by one party this season, and it is reckoned that 30 000 have been slain in the Territory since 1886.

In oar, last issue we mentioned that a boating club was about to be formed. The club have decided to purchase the two gigs from Mr Everett, and that boat racing fs likely to be all the go this summer, The -gigs are in first-class order, and we hope the crews wilTget into practiee at once.

Shareholders in the Hot Springs Licensed Holding No. 1 are reminded by the Secretary that a meeting will be held on Monday evening next at 7.30. The business for which the meeting is called is important, and ail those interested should be present. .It is state! that the Te Aroha-Paeroa section of. railway will be opened towards the end of the year. Some people consider it would pay the Government well to pu3h the line on to Waihi, so as to get coal m cheaply for the batteries from Waikato. At present firewood is being used, and it is estimated that the country is being deforested at the rate of five acres per week, a process which will bring its own penalties hereafter.

Several gilded Jubilee shillings have lately been passed to Chinese-.and Assyrian vendor's, as sovereigns, at Wellington. They are remarkably like the genuine sovereign, but of course lighter. Large areas of water along the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexieo, are devoted to the novel and it is said, profitable industry of sponge cultivation. Sponge farms became necessary because of the possible, exhaustion of tho natural fisheries ,- culti-* vated sponges are also superior, and easily accessible. The only preparation necessary for a farm is the dropping of rocks ant* stones into the water for tho sponges to fasten to, and to btiild a lagoon to prevent tile seed heing carried out to sea. In the autumn various varieties of sponges, ineluding the male and female cells, are sccursd and kept in * pounds/ which develop during the winter. In the spring they, are liberated, and soon fasten to the rocks.

At the meeting of the Board of Education in Auckland, on Tuesday last, the teachers’ solection;committee recommended that Miss M S. Lavery, pupil teacher, he move 1 from Tararu to Waiteknuri. . • It is reported that at an up-country t&wn- ’ ship, near Christchurch, this week a marriage had opiy been celebrated about- a quarter of an hour, when a woman came on the scene and claimed to be the former wife of the bridegroom. The bride is still in doubts as to her’position in the matter. The Bill providing fop the introduction of the Irish National Scripture text book into our public schools has passed thß house in its first reading by 36 to 9. Tho second reading takes place in a fortnight. Mr W. S. Allen has just received a num-.-her of tench from the Opawa fish breeding establishment. Tench are a useful fish in swampy Water it of mosquitos and other noxious insects, and affSrd capital sport during a portion of the summer. It is a European fresh water fish of tho carp family, and’ is very' tenacious of life. The Rangitikei Advocate publishes the following paragraph;— “A boy in the employ of a business man at Feilding, and earning 7s a week, managed recently to save and bank SA. This coming to the knowledge of some of his companions they twitted him to such a.' degree for what they .termed the meanness, that he dreyr the whole of it out and'spent it. On going to Sandon shortly afterwards to see his grandmother, the old lady- said, ‘ I hoar, John, you;have drawn out all your money and spent it.V ‘ Yes/'.said the boy, ‘ the Ranks are in such a condition just now that there is no encouragement.for thrift.” ‘ The Ohineinuri Ministrels are to give one of their popular entertainments in the Te Aroha Public Hall on Thursday -evening next, the 17th inst. The programme, which is a lengthy one, will he found in another column, and consists of all the latests songs, etc. The first pkrt of-the programme will close with- the /-Muldoon- Guards,’ which creates roars of laughter; the .whole will conclude with the side splitting farce, * Killed with kindness/,, This troupe played ifa Karrngahake about two weeks ago to a crowded house, and we have no doubt they will be patronised in this district, a The Ladies Committee of the forthcoming Flower Show, etc., met on Friday afternoon last at the school-house. Present; Misses Goldsworthy in the chair), Rowe, B. Lavery, Gibbons, K. Johnson, Gabolinscy and Hotchin. The Committee appointed, the following to act as judges: Misses Pavitt and Gabolinscy, fancy work, and Miss B. Lavery and Mrs Marslen, plain needlework, knitting, etc. „