Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1789, 23 November 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Mark Twain in Auckland.

Waitoa Road Board meet to-day. The world-famed Faust Family are to give an entertainment at Paeroa shortly. The criminal session of the Supreme Court open on Monday. Those requiring potatoes should pay a visit to R. Harris’ store. .

The Waihi Company’s steam tramway between Waihi and Paeroa is being pegged out. It will pass close behind the Sterling Hotel, and will cut through a number of allotments to Waihi

Accidents appear to be on the increase on the Ohinemuri Goldfields- Scarcely a week passes without some unfortunate meeting with a mishap. A Professor Lieheg says: • Fermantation and rottenness are allied, and alcohql is simply a deadly poison exhaled from putrefaction.’ \ /' The usual ecclesticafservice will be found duly advertised in another column. Railway excursion arrives here from Auckland at 7.35 this evening. Mr John White has been appointed lamp lighter to the Te Aroha Town Board. Big Fire at Hastings. . Mclndoe’s clearing sale closes at end of this month. The suicidal mania is 'on the increase.

The finishing touches are now being put to the railway bridge across the Ohinemuri. St, Mark’s concert a great success. Another hotel is in course of erection at Paeroa. .« •

Meetings being held in Waikato in connection with the sugar beet industry;

The Brass Band selections were highly spoken of at the recent concert. Bandmaster Gordon should feel proud of his crew. ",

The London Times, commenting on the shipment of live stock from Australia, says the best is wanted'not the worst.

The Mackenzie Company, which have been giving entertainments in the Waikato, are highly spoken of by the local press. Trout seem plentiful in the Oxford district. .

A Parsee sacred fire which is burning in a temple si t Leiguie, Persia, is known to have not been extinguished sin< e the days of Rupiboreth, who lived twelve centuries ago; :-v : V - ’ •

Hamilton Mayoral election on 27th inst., Messrs Jones and Dey have be -a nominated. Evangelist Muldoon will hold a service 1 at Waihou on Monday evening; 1 The electric eel is only found in . the northern rivers of South America.

Columbus discovered America, Oct.'l2, 1492; the Northmen A.D. 985. The first theatre in. the United States was at Williamsburg Va„ 1752. A ; Congress declared war with Mexico, May 13,1846; closed Feb. 2,1848. '

The first complete sewing machine was patened by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. London i 3 the largest city in the world, containing a population of 4,764,312 persons.

F.rst cotton raised in the United States was in Virginia, in 1621; first exported, 1747. ‘

A new journal to be devoted principally to mining matters is to be started in Auckland next week, under the title, of ‘ The Mining Standard.’ Mr Hammond, late editor of the ‘ Broken Hill Standard,’ will have charge of the editorial department.