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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2076, 8 February 1898, Page 2

The Te Aroha schools re«opened yesterday. Tho Warden’s Court will sit at the usual hour on Friday next. The “Sporting Life” (London) Bays Australia can fairly claim to be England’s superior in the cricket field. St Mark’s Church was crowded to exoess on Sunday night, when the Rev. Joseph Campbell oonduoted the service.

Lord William Neville has been committed for trial in connection with the Lewis Clay money»lending case. Bail was refused.

The Rev. Mr Richards, of Mount Albert, Auckland, preached at the morning and evening services at the Wesleyan Church, Te, Aroha, on Sunday last, to orowded congregations, Mr J. T. Dumbell, who has “been in Te Aroha for some days auditing the books of the Governmental department here and the local bodies, was to leave for Hamilton this morning.

We have received a lengthy report on the geology of the Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, by Alex. McKay, Government Geologist, which we shall be very happy to lend to any of our readers desirous ©f perusing the same. We regret t© observe in the obituary notices in yesterday’s ‘Herald,’ the death on Saturday last at the Auckland Hospital of Mrs Gabolinscy, formerly of the Waihou Hotel, at the early age of 42.

From a notice of removal appearing in another column, it will be seen that Dr. Gilbert Smith is removing to Bank Buildings, at the corner of Whitaker and Rolleston«streets, opposite O’Meagher’s Family Hotel. Dr Smith’s hours for consultation will be.from 9 to 10 a.m and 6 to 7 p.m.

Among the battery returns we note the Waihi-Silverton G.M. Co. crushed and treated 1000 tons of quartz for 700ozs bullion, valued at .£1,866. The Hauraki treated 200 tons and 1691bs picked stone for 4120 z 9dwts, valued at £1,237* The Waiotahi, HOoz for the month. 4t Leongatha, Victoria, at the recent great fires, a house containing a woman and five little children was com* pletely surrounded. Constable Gorman rode through the flames and brought out the inmates one-by*one. On the last trip he fell forward on his horse’s neck exhausted. A burning tree fell and snapped the bridle rein, and the horse, stimulated by fright, carried the fainting rider to safety. The frost of Wednesday night (writes a Herald correspondent) has done very serious damage at Hamilton. In most of the low lying places the potatoes, pumpkins, and maize have been totally destroyed. Some of the farmers have turned their cattle into the maize paddocks as being the only means of deriving any benefit from the crop. This frost coming after the long drought is a serious blow to those farmers who are supplying the creameries. There is little enough margin at the present price of milk, and this last blow will be very severely felt by many hard-working and struggling settlers who depend mainly upon this service of revenue. A large tract of swamp timber behind Mr John Evans’ furm, has been burning for some time causing some alarm. Lately it crossed the road and menaced Mr Reynolds’ property and attacked that of Mr Thomas Biggs. Such a fire is calculated to burn all the good out of the land and so very materially detract from its value. Yesterday’s heavy rain will have had the effect, we sincerely trust, of extinguishing this insidious, being partly underground, and most destructive fire.

Along the east coast, north of Yarmouth, is a series of long-deserted churches waiting until the'encroaching sea sweeps them away, as it has swept away so many of their fellows. There is something pathetic in the sight of these ‘ silent sentinels of the sea,’ having long outlived their days of usefulness, awaiting their end with an air of stolid resignation. The old church of Cromer was long ago absorbed by the sea. The ancient tower of Eccles, known to Chaucer, disappeared in a gale two years ago. The Sidestrand Tower will probably be the next to go. The sea is already gnawing at the base of tha clifl on which it stands among its graves, and a corner of the churchyard has already been swept away. • -

We have received complaints about inconvenience caused by the alteration in the hours during which the baths are opened on Sundays, It appears that parties from the country districts, Morrinsville, Waihou, etc,, make a practice of driving in here on Sunday mornings—the only time they oan spare from business—for the purpose of taking advantage of our thermal springs. To find the baths closed on their arrival naturally causes inconvenience. If they remain in the township and dine at l o’clock —as is the invariable custom on Sunday—they are unable to bathe until 3 o’clock, which makes it rather late for them getting home again. In short, it interferes naturally with their arrangements. In determining to close the baths every evening at 9 o’clock has it not been overlooked that the greatest advantage is to he derived, in cases of rheumatic and nervous complaints, from a bath taken immediately before going to bed a£ the usual hour—say 10 o’clock, in the case of an in« valid—when a deep refreshing sleep invaluably follows ? ’