LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1795, 21 December 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The time-table of the Te Aroha-Ghine-muri Railway will be found duly advertised? •; ' 1 ;•

Canvassers having guarantee lists for the growth of Sugar Beet should return same at once to President of Farmers’ Club. Cambridge. : ,

Tho Waihi Company invite tenders for ■l-OO.oOOfc sawn timber, to bo delivered at their machine-site, 'Owharoa. Specifications will be posted on application.

Mrs Gooding, of Te Arohn, advertises that 3ha can supply butter and eggs ; also fresh fruit in season.

Captain Edwin; wired at 4.10 p.m. yesterday as' follows Indications strong South-east to East and ..North winds, with rain and glass falling.’ post office will be closed on Wednesday, 25th (Christmas Day).' Mails for despatch on 25th will cl yon Tuesday, 24th, at ft p.m. Ou Tli jday, 2fifch (Boxing Day) the.post office wiil be open from 9to lOa.m-pnly.

,M- r Hr B- Bell was the recipient of a handsome album and an address, from the teachers and scholars of the Te Aruha Wes--l<^® ( Sunday School, on the occasion of his Jk-THi JPaeroa. Mr Bell has occupied Mo ,position of * Superintendent of "the 'School, and he will-leave a gap hard to fill". In our advertising columns will bo found an\ advertisement setting forth the merits 'of Tucker#' Family Baking Powder. This article is manufactured from the .purest materials, and is guaranteed correct weight? Persons using this commodity speak well pf it and will > Be no other.| ; ;■ The shop of Mr George Bygraves .laid a narrow escape from destruction by. five last evening. . A Iteroseue lamp fell and broke, and the oil igniting quickly spread, but the flames wore extinguished before any serious damage was done.

The sanitary condition of Paerba township is at present in a very unhealthy and dangerous state. In one place right in tho centre of the town, on a main street, an open drain is made the receptacle of the refuse and rubbish from a boarding house, [this causes a deadly stench to arise, which sooner or later may prove the cause of an outbreak of typhoid fever. Surely it is, time a Dizain age Board, or a Board of Health took immediate stei 8 to improve this dmT graceful state Of things. ' We would advise our sure and visit Hetherington and Co.’s establishment during the as they have opened up the yhry newest novelties in each department^ all of which are suitable for this season of the year. Hetherington and Cor; being direct importers, , the public can,always relyrnn getting new and at the lowest possible cash -prices.- See their windows for fine display. Advfc. >

Mr Jonh Fuller and his-talented family are advertised to give a concert in tho Te Aroha Town Hall this evening. They have been very successful as a concert company both in the city and provinces. Mr John Fuller will sing ‘The Death .of Nelson/ and ‘ The Holy City ,’ beside talcing partin twodliets.- The prices of admission have been fixed at 3s and 23, including the dance. i - 7„7, 7 '3-J '

The Waitoa Boad Board, invite tenders for widening and deepening about 70 chains of Johnson’s creek; clearing ti-tree on Stanley’s road and other works. Specifications can bo seen at Mr Pavitt’s office. Tenders must be sent to the Chairman. Movrinsville, on or before Saturday next, the 28th inst. , - , . .•- 7

The Chairm2n, and Secretary of the Gordon Settlement interviewed the Hon Cadmau on Wednesday, on the subject of the road from Waharoa to Gordon, and the -bridge ovegthe river, the 'estimated' cost of these works are .£7lO, and up to the present only about .£4OO has been promised, one half of this being from the Government, thus left .£3lO to be .provided, and the., object of the deputation was to whether, if one half of the, balance, could, be raised locally, the Government would goon giving pound for pound as £hey have hitherto.done; After, carefully going into the matter Hon Cadman announced that he would accede to the request of the vdeputation. ard it now only remains for those bodies who have given nothing, or have promised small sums, to increese their contributions and the work will be carried out at once. Mr Cadman suggestedSfch.it the' swamp portion of the work should be gone on with at • once, so as to get solid during the summer weather.