LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1792, 7 December 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev Mr Norrie is going to supply at - the Bay of Islands for a month, his work in this district will be taken by Mr White daring his absence. Mr McArthur, the new engineer for th County of Ohinetnuri, arrived in Paeroa from Sydney -on Wednesday. Mr Me Arthhris a man of aooufc 40, and looks fully able to cope with the work he will be called upon to undertake. He is a married man with live children. Paeroa is all astir just now, preparaing to lay the wants of the district before the Premier during his visit. , A petition for the commutation of Darragh’s sentence is being circulated Mr Elliott, Darragh’s former employer, hascharge of "the petition. Capt. Edwin wired at noon yesterday as follows Northeast to East and Sou. h gak with rain from ten hours from now; glass fall.

Mr Lafney, of Waitoa, notifies through our columns that he is prejfired to give land free to settlers willing to grow beetroot upon it, the land is suitable and close to a railway station. This is an opportunity for anjf working family to participate in the advantage of sugar growing, and will be of more subst -ntial benefit to the working man of those so-called beneficial, enactments passed in his favour bv our present Liberal Promisers. The Te Aroha excursion to Auckland yesterday was well patronised, the and train had been tastefy//y decorated with g 0 w er s, the engine was fe toons and wreaths of roses and lilies, and the carriages were made gay with nikau and ferns. Some seventy-five adults and thirty-eight children left Te Aroha station, and a large number ; were picked up at Waihou aud Morrinsville totaling about 200. It was estimated that the total number taken into Auckland would exceed 1,000. The excursionists returned to Te Aroha at 11*30 p.m., thoroughly tired, but well satisfied with' their outing. . . There was a case before the Supreme Cpurt on Monday (says the Christchurch Press) in which the person accused had not married ‘ wisely but too. well,’ inasmuch as he married three wives ip 23 years, and as to the two last they are still alive, the pre-. sumption is that the first one is also. In the ease of one marriage, the second, there arc six children.' The question submitted to the jury was to decide really which of the two ladies marrying after the first marriage is entitled to claim the husband* As his Honor put it when summing up to the jury, it was something of a remarkable experience .tq have before one of the three marriage certificates of a man who claimed that the info last were no marriages as his wife had left him. The jury found him guilty of bigamy, and he was sentenced to 12 month’s imprisonment. It will be a satisfaction to the many friends of Dr. Barnardo’s -well-known work among the Waifs, and to the readers of his magazine, to see that in the October issue of Night and Day, the organ of the Institutions, Dr. Barnardo once more takes his seat in the Editors! Chair, and contributes, ‘Personal Notes,’ &c,many stirring incident of childs rescue. The magazines teems with points of interest, and its pages bear eloquent witness to the needs that exists for continued efforts on behalf of , Nobody’s Children.’ The opening article consists of a paper prepared by Dr. Barnardo for the recent Church Congress at Norwich, and is an ardent and well enforced plea for wider recognition of the task of childs rescue Emigration bulks largely in the number.* It is a surprising fact Dr.Barnardo’s Homes alone have sent out over 8,000 boys’and girls to Canada and the Colonies and still more surprising that a success of 99 per cent, is claimed for his large output of trained and tested young lives, The current year is.responsible, it seems for no fewer that 727 emigrants. There is a closelyreasoned defence of Appeals, and it is illustrated later on by a long list of the (v want3 which the maintenance of a family of uearly 5000 boys and girls involves. These wants rangS from stockings for big lads to ‘three gifts of .£IOOO each’ to enable the Homes to claim a challenge gift. The themes of the Editor’s Personal Notes are as widely,-varied, as usual, and prove how deeply the work of the .Homes hak, Btruck the root?, and how numerous are the helpers who co-operate towards its success A page rescue cases under the title of ‘Somebody’s Bairns,’ and a detailed 'Report of the Street Collection held this summer in aid of the Homes are also included in the

.number, which ought to bring much grist to the-wonderful mill which grinds daily at 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway! London, E. Are- you Furnishing ? The best and cheapest stock is at ‘The People’s’ Furnishing Warehouse, Auckland. J. Tonson Garlick is determined to maintain the position held so long for giving best value in furnishing goods. He is selling very cheap, all kind of Furniture, Carpets, Carpet Squares, Linoleum/ Bedding, Iron Bedsteads, Woven Wife Mattresses, Furnishing, Drapery and Bamboo Blinds. He furnishes a house throughout, and Bends an illustrated catalogue to intending buyers. Write to J. Tonson Gablick, Qneen-street, Auckland.