Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1787, 16 November 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Fine weather at last- : - Singing class to be started. Cricketers very slow this season. ,;. Auction sale in Public Hall to-day. Mrs Kenny’s clearing sale a success. . Tenders called for school-honse at Morrinsville. ' ! • . Wall Maingay won Mclndoe’s medal on Thursday last. Score, 82. Ted Hanby second with 77. At Hobart a publican was fined for selling half a pint'of beer to a girl under the age of 16, A rich discovery of gold is reported from the Golden Ridge property, Long Plains, Tasmania. , Au insect which burrows inko the fleshis causing mortality among hoijses. and cattle in the Mudgee district. ■ 4 ! AHaweraman, while fishing; near the mouth of. fhe Waingongoro the other day was attacked by an.octopus,’and had to call oh some Maoris'foifassistance t 6 free him from its grip,, S : . An enormous bullock yas'slaughtered at Warranamhool, '• last week. The total dressed weight of the animal was 17511 b. Its tongue-alonri weighed 141 b, and its heart lOlb. •

; Immense swarms of flying white. ants beseiged the Sydney city lamps the other eyfening,And lay in heaps beneath .on the footpaths . .. . ; The recent rise in wool means, it is said, ah ihereased earning power to the Bank of New Zealand Assets Company of .over ■£12,000 peir annum; •