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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1783, 30 October 1895, Page 2

Tho full concert programme of' the Anglican Church soiree appears m- our advertising; columns this morning. In, acl-. uition to the usual local talent we notice several new names, Rev Dir Gillam, Mr 3 De Carteret, Mr and Mrs Waters. The ladies’ committee, who have the soiree and concert in hand, have' worked hard to se.curA Its succes?. r they will be rewarded by having a crowded audience, which*they so much; deserve, ;

In our report of the soiree ,in connection ■with the To Aroha Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary, by some oversight the name of Miss Saunders was inadvertently omitted. This lady worked hard for tho success of the soiree, andtoo mu'ch praise cannot be given for her self-denying labours. • The monthly meeting of the Band of Hope will be held in the Town Hall on Monday evening next. ■ The meeting of the. Road Board lapsed on Saturday for . want of a quorum, there being only Messrs Horrell and Aitken present.-. '■ * ’’ ' r ' One of the saddest ''object lessons ’’ upon our present system is occurring in the Hooking’ Yalley. Miners (willing, and anxious to work) and tlieir families -suffering from cold,-by the lack of fuel, at the Very mouths of c'bal mines that the, owners /cannot work at a large, enough profit to suit them, and laws of properly forbid the miners from taking advantage of natural resources. A piece, of parchment, that ,is all. But it is all.

Mr H. H. Howden, .watchmaker and jeweller, ; of Hamilton, '* has presented ameda.l to our local volunteers, The medal wUI-be'fired foras;soon;as.-the usual conditions have been drawn .up. The winter season of the Aroha monthly socials was brought to a close on Friday evening last by a plain and fancy dres3 ball in the Town Hall. The unsettled state of the .. weather .prevented those-living at ' a .distance from attending. The local band was engaged to/provide the necessary-dance music, which, it is-needlesstosay, was of a first-class character.

Miss L. Collins,- of Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay fame, is-back in London again, after an absence of nearly three years in America. She has given up high kicking, but is said to sing better than ever. • Whales are'reported to be numerous off the New South Wales coast,. The monsters are heading south with, their, calves; - A romantic story comes from Brunn, tho capital of Moravia. A journeyman-baker and his sweetheart determined to commit suicide together ;by.' drowning themselves iu the Schwarza. The young man was oUfc of work and saw no prospect of being able to get married. The couple carried out their, fatal resolve, aud their bodies were found in the river. "The,.pockets of the young man searched, and in them were found a florin and a lottery ticket. A few days afterwards the lottery took place, and that very ticket turned out, to be the winner of 20,000 florins, or about <£2,000 sterling. Fortune had knocked at the pbor fellow’s door, but it had came just foo 1 .late. - /..:/./ /://,'/; :

A miner named Bottrell had both eyes de* strbyed by an explosion, in the Bonnie Dundee mine at Charters Tot era. , Rocking-cradles for babies were used by the Egyptians many centuries, before Christ. Among- tho pictures copied by Belzoni is one of an Egyptian mother at work with her foot on the cradle. 7

:-i- ;. ; V.. . In the recent earthquake’ at Nice, ..in France, an English guest . af/ jimo of the hotels was awakened by. a beam falling on his bed. He rose cooly and rang the boil a long time. A waitor finally arrived to answer the call, thinking that some one wa3 in distress. “ Waiter, saiu the Englishman, calmly, can’t you give me a r,oom don’tyouknow, where the beams do’nt fall on the bed F”

Mark Twain will .begin his New "Zealand couise of lectures at Dunedin on Novembers.: . " „ -

According to a Melbourne writer there is a chance of a Victorian eriket team visiting New Zealand this .season.. ' , . One of the most wonderful of- the feathered inhabitants of South America; is the oven bird, which mixes hair with-mud and builds its nest in the form of a baker’s even. In tbis structure there are two compartments, one of which—whsre the eggs are laid—ia high up, so that the birds may hatch their young iu the dry.

There has been ever £7, 000.000 subscribed outside Western Australia within the last two years .to develop its gold mines.. The municipality of Geneva now claim .that they have the largest fountain in the world. This fountain-has been erected at the port’s entrance of the city. It is no Jess than 300 ft in height and may be seen from a great distance detaching itself like a.white sail doping through the oifect' -of, .the wind. •

A wealthy woman came to Kensington from Egypt recently. She had not been Jong in Loudon before she was arrested for being drunk and unable to take care of herself. Two thousand pounds was found on her possession. She was sent to her hotel, bat was arresteTnext dry for-drunk-enness., when .she was lined .and advise i to " ; 9„hhhk fo y : •