LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2075, 5 February 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Extremely cold nights are being experienced.

' , The Colonials won the test match by seven wickets.

Mr Banks, clerk in ther Paeroa Warden *8 Court, has passed the Solicitor’s General Knowledge Examination. The Rev. Joseph Campbell will preach at St Mark’s Church on Sunday evening.

The attention of contractors is called to Mr Pavitt’s advertismentfor tenders for a 6-room house at Gordon Settlement. ;

On Sunday, the 27th Jebruary next, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland will hold a confirmation service at St. Joseph’s Church, Te Aroha.

The Rev. Richards, of ‘ Tlie Trinity ’ Wesleyan Churph, -Auckland,, will preach morning and evening in the Wesleyan : Church, Te Aroha, and at Te Aroha West in the afternoon. '„ - } There-are no bush fires on the l east bank-of river, and the rumour\that' Manawaru had suffered seriously; is One of the canards quotidic: of an idle citizen.

Intending exhibitors at the Show next Saturday are reminded that according tb the rules all entries (particularly. stocki must be handed into the sacretaiy not later than Wednesday next,

v .There is-some, talk of a team of English footballers visiting Australia this season, iWe hope Auckland will be included in their itinerary.

As will be seen from an advertisement in another column Messrs Mackay and Pratt, auctioneers, Paeroa, have received instructions from Mrs Wilkinson to sell all the furniture and effects in her dwelling house on River Bank, formerfy; occupied by Mr Lavery. The furniture-and effects in question compri|n®|jl|i:,|)f ' useful articles in excel||p|«SipPibn, and'the sale which is to be held/ on Saturday next the 12th inst,.;Ufc 2 p.m. sharp, ought ,to attract a large crowd of buyers. We have received a prospectus from the Government of the School for Deaf Mutes,. a • hiost admirable institution for deaf children of sound intellect. Pupils receive instruction on the" Articulation. Method, by which the pupils acquire the power of speech. Age for admission, 6to 12 years. Charges for board and education are remitted partially or entirely in cases of necessity. Full information may be obtained on application to the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

A slight inaccuracj' crept into our report of the Domain Board meeting in our last issue, y In the paragraph headed' ‘‘ Hours for Bathing,” Com Knock is credited with having suggested that the recess on Sunday should be extended to 3 hours. 4 It appears that this suggestion emanated originally from Com Mackie, and was afterwards supported by Com Knock and the other members. ■

Regulations. under the Cyanide Process Gold Extraction Act are issued by the Minister of Mines in the Government Gazette. The royalty is payable according to value of all gold and silver produced since 20th August last from each ton of quartz or other ore in the rqines wherein the patent rights are used in the following scale : (1) 1 per cent of such value where same does not exceed £2 per ton; (2) 1 \ per cent where such ’value exceeds £2; but not exceed £3 per ton ; (3) two per cent where such value exceeds £3 per ton but does not exceed £4 per ton ; (4) 2\ per cent where such value exceeds £4 per ton. Re turn wing particulars of; ore treated must be furnished to district receiver of gold revenue, and a penalty of -£5 . is provided for all breaches of the regulations. ■

An incident which redounds to the credit of Te Whiti occurred lately. Some six m >nths ago (saysythe Taranaki Herald;) a local storekeeper supplied. the prophet with goods to the amount of L7O. _ On Thursday Oharlie Waitara, Te Wlrifci’s eon in-law, waited on the storekeeper; and paid him for the goods, at -the same time giviug him an additional pound as a present from Te Whiti. The storekeeper said he would regard it as interest on the amount of the accouut, but Waitara said, * No Whihi says you very good fellow ; you never worry him for the money; you take the pound as as present.’

Through a Herald’s Waipawa correspondent Sir Robert Stout’s intention to. of politics is attpp]|pced. AfteyA reading the ‘ elaboratgiannouncemeht carefully over we think one portion of it maybe quoted as sufficilnt to determine, the status of the writer, a species of colonial Henry Lucy. A statement, he declares, was made in one journal that the knight was to get a large sum of money from certain people and retire from publio life.; To this extraordinary averment our well-informed one replies ‘ This, 1 am in a position to say, is a pure fabrication.’ Later news confirms this report. To encourage the perusal of sound literature the subscribers to the News will, from this date, he entitled to the use of the Te Aroha News Library Free. Time allowed •for reading, one week. If books are kept beyond a week one penny per diem will be charged by way of fine. Parcels of the latest works of fiction received weekly from Spreckley'B, Auckland.

A _ meeting was called on Tuesday evening fsr the purpose of forming a rifle corps in Coromandel. The convener, Major Birnie, explained that the minimum membership was 40, and the maximum 60 for a rifle corps. Forty-one handed in their names. The Coromandel town band will, it is said, join on the same basis as the Te Aroha band.

A characteristic story is told of Lord Justice Vaughan Williams, who beguiles his leisure hours by farming, -ir Roland was in the habit of sending his fat sheep to the bucthers of Guildford, who after a time combined to reduce the prices paid for them. The judge made no protest against this economic conspiracy. He took a shop in Guildford, put his name in large letters over the window, and proceeded to kill and sell his own sheep at prices much lower than those of the mutinous butchers. The end was inevitable—the butchers recanted and consented to pay the judge’s own prit a for his sheep in future. A problem which has vexed the Customs Department for sometime past resolves itself (says the Melbourne Age) into the question : Is the lime juice sold in Melbourne really lime juice 1 and the answer obtained is “No!” “ Parramatta lime juice” is a beverage known in most households. : The Customs Department wrote to the New South Wales Department asking if the manufacture of lime juice was known in Parramatta, and the Sydney authorities replied, with withering contempt. The only genuine Parramatta lime juice we know is manufactured in Melbourne and imported here 1 An analysis of the stuff followed, and Mr Blackett pronounced it to be not lime juice at all, but merely water in which citric or tartaric acid had been dissolved. The “ lime juice ” manufacturers of Melbourne'were prompt to assure the Customs Department that “ Parramatta lime juice ” was a generic term, and that no lime juice was .made at Parramatta. But the Department holds that the public probably believed that the stuff was the juice of limes grown at the New South Wales town, and it will shortly be decided whether prosecutions shall be .instituted on the ground of falsity of description. The fine portrait of the late James McCosh Clark which is one of the attractions of a capital issue of the ‘ Graphic ’ published to-day will doubtless attract general, attention, and command a wide sale. The popular weekly is as usual to the fore with a number of interesting pictures, and brightly-written articles. The p osition of. China is happily hit off by the cartoonist, and in another page of sketches Mr Ashley Hunter also Satirises with pungent humour the events of the week., Caledonians will be sure to admire the fine pictures of Caledonian sports in the South. A fine magazine article, * Among the Black Fellows,' is awarded a place of honor, and illustrated as it is with fine steel and zinc engravings it well deserves its position Topics of the week deal with the question of colonial Jewesses, Is Hydrophobia Coming ? and a plea for fewer clothes. The social .news deals 'exhaustively with races, theregltta, and all recent gaiety. There is moreover a capital local story. On sale in the News stationery department.

To the De\f 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 issued the 100th edition of bis 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 Bystem, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist in Zealand. A little book on the pure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago'f and Indigestion by. the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.—Advt.