LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2070, 20 January 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr Orpen left the Alameda at Honolulu. Plako County Council to-day at Morrinsville.

We hoar on good authority that Mr J. W, May, of the D.$,C., has disposed ®f his farm at Manawftru . 'i

The end of the Engineers Strike is at hand. , .. . .. ,

The Band played m the Domain last night in the presume of a appreciation audience. ; „ ; --

Lord Banfurly was run over by a - buggy on Sunday at-Queenstown- He escaped with a severe shaking, Mr H. A. Gordon has returned from a visit to the old country, * ■. In the third teat match Australia scored 573 in tHeir first innings while England were all out for 275; 2nd innings 181-for 4 wickets

Owing to the lateness of the hour at which the Town Board and the . adjourned meeting of the Domain Board held last night closed, wo are obliged to hold over our report until Saturday, In the matter of the tenders Mr Jackson’s tender of .£lO for a bridge in Bewi street, and Mr Janies Clarke’s at 7s per chain for removal of Domain boundary fence, were accepted. . Mr James Preyherg. late, timber exper in London for the New Zealand Government has an interesting article in one of the 'Anglo-Colonfal journals with reference to the°possibilitiea of colonial trade opened up by the pending completion of the great Russian Siberian railway. He says: ‘ New Zealand can supply immense quantities of raw material that Russia actually needs and that we are wasting or selling at uhremunerative prices. While her capability of absoibing our frozen meat and dairy proa duee is beyond belief if properly cultivated and .developed. He recommends tlutt an «active and curteous representative of New Zealand’should take up his residence ip Vladivostoclr, properly furnished.with samples of New Zealand’s raw produce, arid the prices at which they could be shipped at colonial ports. -He points out that such an officer would require to be able to speak French as well as English, The Gbuxt Frau.—Tonson GarlickJ& Oo are selling their stook at Hoffman’s Buildings, Eliiott-street, behind the Opera House, , Ten Thousand Pounds worth of Carpets. Linoleum, Bedsteads, Fenders, Rattan Furniture. Ovormantles, Bedding, Drawing Boom Suites, and Furnishing Drapery. Snoh a sale 119 this will be hanever been held in Auckland.-—Anvr.; _ : 1 1>;.1 these prisoners have any bread be* fore the v came in ? asked Mr Panton, P. M., Melbourne, as there was ushered before -the City Court, a long, lean, dark man', whose jaws worked like those of a cow or' a racing cyclist. ’Not for some time,’ answere lSergeanb Eason. /Then what are you chewing ?’ demanded the m Vgistrate of the prisoner. ‘Terbacker,’ came the reply, between two chews, and Mr. Panton 1 ; looked stern, ‘Swallow it 1 he ordered, and with a glance to convince hit? self that the Bench was ’ in earnest,; the accused jerked his throat, made a grimaoe, and all was over. Evidence was then taken'show-’ ing that the had been guilty of entering a house where he was known and break* ing a quantity of crockery. He remembered nothing whatever ftboqt the" case, he said, but that did not prevent him being fined £2 with 10s damages. : ,

We learn that a splendid haul of. Ameria can trout has been made on the Rotorua ltp,ke, over ha f a ton in weight. The trout has: been forwarded from, .Rotorua to Auckland by today's express. While in Melbourne Captain Russell was asked as to whetherprohibition wasflourishing in New Zealand, and replied * No: ’ on the contrary it is weakening every day. The prohibitionists have made the fatal mistake of going too far; So Jong as it meant merely closing a low public house or regulating within reasonable bounds the number of drinking shops the people wore content to look oh, but when it came to depriving people who were not drunkards of reasonable facilities, for refreshment the aspect of affairs changed. They would not have it. Besides it was soon found that prohibitipn wag not go sweeping a remedy for the drink evil that it was expected to prove Take Clutha for instanoe That is one ot the prohibition centres >-« Yet the drink evil is as had there as ever it was No one seems to have gone without a drink if ho wanted it \ '

All millinery .goods reduced to about half price at A- W, Edwards’ .-—Advt To the Deaf and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles Dr. Nicholson of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear. Drums, has just issued the 100th edition of his illustrated and deaoriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles, Thiß book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N. 55, Mr Campbell was cured of his deafness by Df Nicholson’s system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist dn Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the aam« author, may be ha 4 from Mr Campbell, also free.—Advt,

Major George, late owner of the Wairakau estate on the Shaftesbury road, leaves Auckland for Mexico on Saturday next.

The Waihi Brass Band leave ,touiorrow for Napier to take partiu the Band contest. It will be; reinembered that tills'.ban*!Vwon,j'fte;-Td Aioha Brass Band contest last year/. V

Mr James W. Anderson, late of the Auckland 1 Star ’ staff, died last Saturday at the age of 26, from consumption. . J:...,; 'An 5 ' vacancy" uh.s'occurred in the Karangahako Riding of the Ohinemuri County Council, through the death of Mr Carroll Nash. Messrs Jas. Marsland and Chas. Franklin intend contesting the seat. - ,

A local resident who has a. yearning to go to Kloudike suggests that 100 persons should find AIOO efich and. purchase the Terranora, stock her with provisions and coal, the lot get on board and then, Hey, for the Klondike! It is suggested that after arrival the vessel be used for.trading upfcffd down this river, arid after".'air' had got what gold they wanted, bring the party home again. Next!—Bay of Plenty Times, 1 ?

A Foxton storekeeper was the other day importuned for food by one of the genus loafer. He promised to comply with the request if the man would cut. some firewood; When the work was done (says a Manawatu paper) cash was demanded, and all the pains and penalties of the Truck Act threatened if the demand was not complied with. Sooner than have any bother, 5s was for the lesson.

Job lot of Boots, women and children's, slightly damaged, being cleared at Is per pair; original price from 5s to 12s fid a pair. AW Edward, —Advte-'-'-.v The death is announced; of Mr Chas. Thaxter, An old colonist, who came out to New Zealand in 1 865. At the time of his death he was visiting his daughter, Mrs Lennard, when he was seized withinfluenza, passing a way on J anuary 11th, after four days illness. He was about 80 years of age, and was greatly respected, and his many friends deeply regret bis sudden demise, > Advices from British Columbia state that the prospectus of the long- talked of and gigantic British-American Corporation has been issued in London. The capital is L 1,500,000 sterling. One million pounds of shares are now offered at par; the issue being limited to the shareholders of the Loudon and Globe Finance Corporation, The l-di-rectors are the Marquis of Dufferin; Lord Loch; Lieoteriaut-Governer Mackintosh of the North-west Territories; Mr Edward A* Hoare, one of the directors of the Bmk of British North America; and Mr Whittaker' Wright, ayrell known London financier. The Corporation Ims secured' the famous Le Roi and Josie mines,' as well as eight other well-known Russian l mines and Ne's m prope.ti -a. It also secure as a going concern the Alaska Commercial Company with the town site at Dawson Ci y, and other Kloudike oreeks. The Yic’Qria Colonist re marks that i his news will be received with pleasure in all parts of Canada. 1 It is, ’ adds that .paper, ‘the best of news tliat ; the| great Kootenay gold ■mines. Are passing into the hands of British capitalists.’ . j

Ladies and children’s hats must be cleared regardless of cost, A. W. Edwards.—-Advt

On Tuesday evening, at the invitation of Mr and Mrs McLean, all Te Aroha assembled at the Public Hall to do honour to the auapioious event of the morrow—the wedding of their eldest daughter to Mr James Renuiok, which bur readers will find duly recorded in another column. Tho young people who were present, and their name was legion, eujoyed themselvesimmensely;- dancing, music and games speeding; the winged' hours;' Dane©musio was provided by a contingent of the looal band, assisted by Messrs Devey and Everitt Towards the close of the evening the Vicar (the Hey- E. J. MeEarland), made a happy speeoh concerning the occasion of the assemblage. -MV Moludoe also spoke. On behalf of the members of the Te Aroha Football Club Mr J. T, Maingny presented Mr Renniok with a silver egg stand and butter-.cooler as a token of es'eem from his fellow club-members. Mr Renniok making a suitable reply. The. behaviour of the orowd in the London Police Court when the murderer of William Terriss was brought up for trial was mo3t unusual; the, offence of the orirainal must be very great or the victim greatly mourned fop an English crowd to foonduct itself in the unseemly manner it did But, indeed, the dead actor, William Terriss, was probably one of the'most popular men in London. Not only as an actor had he won the favor of the great congregation of theatre-goers who attended regularly at the Adelphi, but personally he had made himself a favourite with all classes. Several times he distinguished himself in saving the life of drowning people, and on one occasion at Folkestone, a particularly gallant rescue of a spent swimmer gained for him an acknowledgement from the Royal Humane Sooiety. It is a bitter irony that he who had oome to death on the stage in a)great manyoharaeters should end his oareer so tragically. It is also a mild coincidence that the most brilliant dramatist and poet iu English literature, except Shakespeare, was killed by a man named Aroher. Marlowe was stabbed in the brain by Archer as the ‘ result of a drunken brawl,