LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2070, 25 January 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Antonie Obuglien, an old Thames miner, is dead.

The school holidays have been extended to the Bth February,

The shooting match between the Te Aroha Rifles and Thames Navals is to take place on the 29th inst,

Messrs Kusabs Bros.’ timber business at Mamaku has been formed into a company,

A “Post ” correspondent states that New Zealand’s credit never stood higher than at present, and quotes a case in support of his statement.

Mr Kirkpatrick, manager for Mr G. W. S. Paterson* died on Saturday morning from injuries received in the coach accident near Hokianga on Tuesday lasri We understand that Eowles has been placed on the sicklist, and that a relief officer has arrived. The health, of Mrs Eowles, we regret to hear, is also very precarious.

Until' the result of the recent valuations is made public, nothing can be done without regard- to petitioning, the Governor in Council to transform Te Aroha into a Borough; That. popular and thoroughly .efficient officer Col.-Sergeant Scott’s election to the vacant lieutenancy in the Te Aroha Rifles was confirmed amidst many expressions of satisfaction and approval, by the company on Thursday evening last. Lord Ranfiirly sent £25 to a relief fund for burnt out settlers at Pahiatua.

A stock of Murray’s almanacs for the current year are now to be had at the New’s stationary department. Price 6d.

The editor Of the 1 Waikato Times,’ Mr Oastleton, who has been taking a well-earned rest in Te Aroha, returned to Hamilton yesterday, much the better for his holiday.

The condition of young Galbraith, who in falling from a load of hay was impaled on a pitchfork iD the groin at Cambridge on Thursday last, is very serious.

On Friday morning a man named Joseph Turner was discovered dead in the ‘Stonewall Jackson’ or ‘Hinemaru ’ bath at Rotorua, an open spring situated between Brent’s Bathgate House and the ‘ Postmaster ’ bath. .

Mr Hull, stock inspector for Manawatu, made ail interesting discovery in connection with the habit of the troublesome bot-fly. Hitherto it has been generally supposed that this lively little insect has confined its attentions to horses, but on Thursday Mr Hull having occasion to make an examination of a porker, found that the pig’s ears were literally covered with the eggs of the fiy, thus proving that it has begun to develop new characteristics which will* not tend to diminish the dislike the. stock owners have for the troublesome bot.—Standard.

A meeting of the members of the T.A.C. club was held at the Family Hotel last night, Mr Pavitt senr., being in tke chair. Present! Messrs Hodgson, Bygrave Gotz, Oliver, Farquharson, Hirst, Bell, Burlace, and Hartne&dy. It was decided to alter the Katikati fixture, that club now being invited to Te Aroha. Some challenges from local clubs were considered and accepted, including the Morrinsville return match. Cambridge wrote regretting their inability to accept a challenge. The advisability of forming a cricket association of the Upper and Lower Thames district clubs was discussed, and it was decided to instruct the secretary to communicate with the secretaries of the following clubs -Waitekauri, Waihi, Karangahake, Paeroa, and Thames, with that object in view. The Treasurer announced the receipt of two donations of a guiftea each. Before the termination of the meeting Mr Gotz very kindly undertook to attend to the arrangements for the next home match. The usual vote of thanks concluded the meeting.

It is stated that 1,000 chimneys in Wanganui and suburbs had to be rebuilt owing to the earthquake.

A movement is on foot in le Aroha to organise a course of lectures in first aid to the injured in connection with St John’s Ambulance Association. Further notice will be given in due course.

It is stated (says the 4 Wanganui Herald ’) jbhat a Moawhangft stock owner had the misfortune to lose no less than 800 sheep through the Animals having been driven dogs into a gully,'where they got smothered. It is said that the sheep were piled ten to fifteen deep on each other. The Weather being propitious, though slightly overcast; there was the usual crowd in the Domain on Sunday afternoon. Mr-Dave Pearson, we observed, wielded the baton, and appeared to have his men well under control. So large is the attendance at these enjoyable open-air performances that the late comers experienced considerable difficulty in getting seats. The natives of the Maungatapu settlement, hear Tauranga, intend erecting a large new carved meetinghouse there, and for that purpose have just brought down from the Oropi bush an immense log to act as a ridge pole, The building will take a considerable time to construct, and will doubtless prove an attraction to visitors, as the old style of Work will be adhered to.

The jury inquiring into the circum-* stances attending the death of Mr E, M.. Corbett, who was thrown out of his buggy in the Karangahake Gorge, on Thursday evening last, returned a Verdict to the effect “that the deceased, Edward Mann Corbett, met his death at Karangahake on the evening of the 20th inst., : the cause of death being heart disease, accelerated by the shock received from the buggy accident.” At the St Pancras CoronePs Court an inquest was held concerning the death of Rudolph WichtermaUn, 37, a restaurant keeper, lately residing at 59, Charlotte street, Fitroy Square, who committed suicide by hanging himself after his wife had deserted him foi another man, This had upset Wichtermann very much, and he had telegraphed to his wife’s sister to come and mind his children. He said he eould not Lear his sorrow and would put an end to it. He was discovered hanging in the passage leading to the front door. A chair was close by, and the man had evidently stood on this, tied a cord round his neck, and jumped off. The jury returned a verdict of “ suicide while of uflsotmd mind.”

As mentioned in our last issue, and to-day advertised in another column, a lantern lecture illustrative of mission work, among the Fijians will be delivered in the Te Aroha Wesleyan Church on Thursday evening next by the Rev. Win. Slade of Fiji, who is now spending a Well earned holiday in New Zealand, and with characteristic zeal devoting a considerable portion of it to a series of lectures upon the work of the mission, We understand that the reverend missionary has established himself as a man of great energy and force of character, and it will be a very entertaining and inspiring narrative that he will be able to give on Thursday evening next, aided by a series of lantern views. Admission is free, and a collection will be made on behalf of the mission.

Fruitgrowers who intend 'contributing to the shipment of appjes which the Agricultural Department have offered to send home to London should lose no time in communicating with the General Secretary of the Fruit growers’ Union, and advising him what kinds and the quantity of the above fruit they are prepared to send. It would be a great pity if the present chance, is not fully, availed of. The Canterbury growers have already guaranteed 5000 cases as an earnest of their sympathy with the offer. There is no valid reason why our local growers should not do likewise. The Department guarantees to shippers Id per lb clear, so that no trouble will be experienced by the exporters after delivery at the receiving Store in Auckland. The fruit will be shipped in the new Australasian case. The General Secretary of the Fruitgrowers’ Union wishes us to state that he is acting in this matter only as a medium for growers generally. A return tennis match will be played at Paeroa next Saturday week.' The same representatives who appeared for Te Aroha and Paeroa, rewpeoti'-ely, at the last match, won by Te Aroha,- are ex pected to play. The tenders for the erection of a grand stand on the Te Aroha Jockev Club’s course Were ar follows i—Penk. £228 14s, extras J 57 10s \ Mackie, £261 14s, extras £2O ; Searle, £233 13« 6d, extras £6 (accepted) I. Mills, £250 extras £7 ; Sutton, £134155. Mr Sutton intimated later that he had made an error in copying his figures, which should read £234 15s.

To the Leaf and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles I/r Nicholson of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just i3Bued the iOOth edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles, This book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z, Mr Campbell was cured of his deafness by Dr Nicholson’s system, and takes pleasure in spreading.the news of the great specialist in Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by tbe same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.—Advt.

Mr W. S. Montgomery, of Owharoa, has bought out Mr John Kelly’s interest in the Karangahake Hotel. The price given i$ said to be £2,500. On Friday last Mr Frank Lipsey established something like a record by riding from Waihi to Te Aroha in two hours and a-balf. The roads were in capital, condition. Mr Lipsey came over hill via Karangahake. The tui has lately been discovered to be the foe of the humble bee. A short time ago the caretaker of the Akaroa D unain observed a tui in a very excited stale flying after some object. The bird was successful in bringing its prey to the ground, and later inspection revet led a humble bee deprived of its honey sac, the body of the insect being otherwise uninjured. Sinoe then the same observer has several times noticed tuis in this pursuit, ~

An example of Untiring energy and parental affection that might even put even a European to blush occurred at Lake Waikaremoana, inland from Hawke’s Bay, the other day, when the body of the unfortunate lad Kapai was discovered by his father, AtaV Ata searched the river from daylight to dark, diving into the deepest holes and groping under the ledges for a period of ten days, barely taking enough food to sustain him, When he found the body he carried it for nearly a mile to Mr Lambett’s, where a rough stretcher was made, and the body taken to the village to await the arrival of the coroner.

Ihere are some pleasant things about Tennyson in Scribner. He was subject to moods of deep gloom, but his friends could win him back to laughter with an amusing story or a humorous repartee. ‘ I shall never be happy again,’ he once said to Mrs Brotherton j ‘ nothing will ever make me. smile any more.’ • Well, then,’ said she, * have one of these buns,’ He burst out into a loud and long laugh.

A director of a gold mining company, says Mercutio in the Herald, sends me some, on the late mining boom. Opep-gconfes-sion is said to be good for the soul, and he is frankness itself, fie feels like a fish out of water now that there is no excitement. When he comes to look back at the position he has held as a director, and had the cheek to take the chair, and discuss high ana low levels, and the advisability of stoping, and as to when calls should be made, he begins to understand 'the infinity of human impudence, ’ He, with unabashed brow, goes on to say : I always looked outfox- No, I, and secured my half-guinea for each meeting some taking as long as five minutes I found out that this was a good paying game, especially when there were eight meetings a day. Three or four wera a common occurrence. When I reflect on the whole thing, and how many of the cute Aucklanders were gulled by directors, like myself, who knew as, much about gold mining as a cow does about a holiday, I smile, and feel lam composed of brass. I sigh for the poor shareholders, and feel as if a pouud of lead was off my heart by this confession. Speaking at Liverpool on Wednesday last Mr Uhambei-lain said closer relations with the colonies were essential, and that Great Britain was prepared to meet the colonies half way without any assurance of immediate pecuniary gain, looking to future reward in the shape of the transformation of Great Britain’s position of splendid isolation into a British; alliance. He added that he hoped the forthcoming international conference to deal with the abolition of sugar bounties would prove successful. If it failed countervailing duties would have to be imposed, This would involve seriius treaty questions and interfere with, trade, It had been decided that a very large grant would have to be ma% to the West Indian sugar growers to enable them to meet the crisis until the Powers l’ecognised the impolicy of the existing system.