Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• This above all— to thine own self bo true, trid it moat follow as the night the day Thou coast not then be falsa to any man.' ' . SUACBSFIABX.

Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday as follows: —‘ East and North and Northwest gale, with heavy rain after. 16 hours from now—glass fall.’

• Quite a phenomenal downpour of rain fell on Thursday morning. For some minutes'in descended steady in a .perfect deluge. > The Railway Monthly ' Timetable' for November is to hand, there is no alteration in the train service affecting this -district. • Mr Robson still lios in a very low condition. He is suffering from pleurisy and abscess on the liver. Dr Brewis has been in attendance.

. Mr W. J. Walker, popularly known as « long drive Walker. ” is at present on a visit to Te Arohr, combining business with pleasure. The Rev S: F: Prior. delivered an able address on Home Mission work in South Australia, in the Wesleyan Church on Wednesday evening. , ' , V -

; Several of the Waitoa Road Board's roads are in a very bad condition just now, particularly, those at Te Aroha West. Thecemetery road, Higden's road, and others. We hope something will be done to improve them: before an accident happens. " ■ . : A Melbourne brewer named Linsay has committed suicide by drowning, himself ip. :'a-vat 'of beer." - 4■ • ' ~ '•:

In Norway k l&w provides that no person shall be permitted to cut down a tree unless he plants three saplingß.in it's place, * The second coming of Our Lord ’ will be the subject of. the'addresses of the Rev 1. G. Evans at St. Mark's Church to-morrow. During the evening-service Miss Payne, of the Thames, will sing the beautiful sacred solo, ‘ The Holy City.’ , 4 .

The concert in aid of St. Mark’s Church funds, which was postponed because unfavourable weather will he held in the Public Hall on Thursday next, A full programme will be' given in our columns next issne.. . ..

It has been found that owing to improved machinery, a man’s labor represents double the value it did 70 years ago; but, as prices have meanwhile fallen 33 per cent, a man now produces as much as three did 70 years ago. ''' : “

-According to the trials of carrier pigeons recently made in the American Navy, these birds-ars likely to prove Very useful at sea in carrying despatches. • Qnly 10 per cent, of the pigeons sent off failed to return ‘home.’ and some of the ‘homers’ covered 200 miles of ocean at a speed of 30 miles an hour. - .. Work on tffe railwaysfijje between Paeroa and Thames is to be proceeded with during the* coming year. As soon as' the works in progress are completed as far as Paeroa it is intended to continue the formation between Paeroij; and the Thames on the co-operative principle.

Those two celebrated preachers the Rev D. Bacon and the Rev Henry Ward Beecher, were once disputing on some religions subject, when the former accused the latter of using wit in his sermons. ‘Well,’ said Mr Beecher, ‘ suppose it had pleased God to give you wit, what would you have done.?’ A preacher, raising.his eyes from his desk in the midst of his sermon, was ! paralyzed with ainazement-to see his rude boy in the gallery pelting the hearers in the pews below with horse-chestnuts. But, ■-while the good man was preparing a frown of reproof, the young hopeful cried out: * You 'tend to your preaching, daddy; I’ll ke ?p ’em awak..’ Mr Ne’s, a Wellington sawmiller. says he has discovered that poles or posts sunk in the ground in the way the timber was grown will soon rot, while if reversed they will stand well.

sharemarket quiet. Evangelist Muldoon talks of missioning Waihou. Hot Springs L.H. have mside a call of 10s per share payable forthwith. Information has just been received in Te Aroha that Mrs Jougiiiu is lying at death’s door, her friends are hourly expecting the end from Syncope, she has to be attended constantly, night and day Much sympathy is expressed' for Mr Joughin. , ’ Amongst the passengers of the Tanvera, which arrived at Auckland thes other day, were two young men from Coulgardie, whov having struck a good piece of country sold out for <£6ooo each. .Less than 12 months ago, one of them was amongst the, Sydney, unemployed. .. A Rangitikei farmer is said to have received an offer of 9| per lb for his clip of Lincoln wool in this colony. That should make the pastrolist rejoice and be glad. Mrs Hetherington’s health continues daily to improve, - She haying re Avei ii severe shaking by her recent accident. AManakau resident ono day last ,wo jk discovered a hen’s egg Which looked a bit out of the common, so he boiled it hard, and on opening the shell i< un i that a considerable portion of the contents consisted "of strands of horsehair, vh. h were interwoyen with the yolk and wh te, and also attached to parts of the sh ill.

The'Anniversary Servi- cs in connection with the Paeroa Wesleyan Sunday School will be held to-morrow (Sunday). The Rev S. J. Serpell, of the Thames, is the preacher morniflg and evening, in the afternoon the scholars of the school will render the Service, of Song, entitled ‘ Left . Alone-’ The*musical talent of- the; Paeroa Wesleyans is so well-known that comment is unnecessary, but no doubt the special preacher and-special music will draw large congregations. ■’ - . . Mrs Waters is now about to supply a long felt want in Te Aroha; via., the formation of a singing class for boys and girls. We hope that our young, people 'will be quick to avail themselves of this splendid opportunity for voice culture. Terms and further particulars are to be obtained from Mrs Waters, Whitaker street, Tq Aroha. The price of flour is now .£lO per ton, and as a consequence- the price of bread, has also been increased, * It’s an ill wind that ,blows .nobody good,’ but. the better prospects for farmers ‘with wheat selling at 4s per bushel is not a great'cause for jubilation in essentially a mining community -although of course wo believe in the principle of tie greatest good for the greatest number, Familiarity can make ’ one content with' the most dismal and gruesome surroundings. Take the case of an undertaker down South. He had a job to do, a long way from town, and was overtaken by -lar.ness while still in the wilds.. So he coolly tethered his horses, and turned in for the night —in his hearse. Not.many people con’d have made themselves comfortable under such circumstances. -V,

Mr Richard Reynolds, of'Trecarne, Cambridge, offered to give the Government his fat oxy..weighing 2,9001 b, which obtained first prizes at the Waikato, Auckland arid HaWera .Shows, if the Minister of Agriculture would cause it to be sent to Engr land, to show what can be clone by grass feeding in New Zealand, and particularly in the Waikato. On Tuesday he received a telegram, stating that all cattle had to be killed at Deptford immediately on their arrival in England, consequently it would he useless for the Government to send the ox. As the animal cannot be sent alive its carcase will probably be frozen'and for-' warded Home, for Mi- Reynold® is determined that the British public shall have an opportunity of judging what New Zealand can do with its pastures.—Waikato Times. ,

A farmer down South had recently to shoot a valuable draught marc, that had been in failing heath for a considerable time. The mare was suckling a foal, and she gradually got worse without any apparent cause. After death the carcase was opened, and the stomach and intestines were fouiid to be infested with grubs of the hot fly, the largest quantity being in the stomach. ‘About two-quarts of grubs were found altogether. In the intestines several perforations were fqund, and the stomach was honeycombed but not completely through. . The Daily News states that in the preprints‘of the cathedral of Bildeshein there is a rose tree growing, which is, said to be more than 1000 years old. . The tree for some years past has' given signs of. .decay, arid' in order to preserve it several botanists and gardeners were called in. The NazioUe "say's they have not only succeeded in keepr ing the tree alive; but have made it flourish g,s..it did in the past. "They expect soon to see it bearing a rich crop’of'roses. '