LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2079, 17 February 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good deal of land has lately been taken up in the Puket© district, and in order to give the settlers access to their farms, the Waipa Council has opened up a new road, which strikes in at Capt. Steele’s residence and joins the old road asrain at the Half-way House; This road will not only avoid the hilly country,, but will lessen the distance to Ngaruawahia by about a mile and a half.

A remarkable case (says the Poverty Bay Herald) was heard at Wairoa this week, in which,Mis3 Lundon,teacher of the Native school at Waikaremoana, was fined £1 and j£B 9s costs for an aggravated assault on Edward Oldham, manager of Mr Tanks’ ran, It seems that there was some excitement in the district over the peregrinations of a lunatic, and on the capture of the latter a number of,natives and informant assembled at the school grounds. Miss Lundon ordered Oldham to leave, and on his refusing she brought a kettle of boiling water and attempted to pour it over him, failing which she threw it at him.

On account of the indisposition of the Vicar (the Rev. E. J. McFai land), who was to have delivered the inaugural address last/night, the opening of the Te Aroha Literary and Recreation Society was postponed until Wednesday evening next.

■.- - f Bishop ' Selwyn, formerly Bishop Melanesia, is dead, aged 54. The death o Bishop Selwyn terminates the career of the noble son of a noble father, and his loss will be profoundly regretted; both in England and throughout the Australasian colonies; but.nqwhere will this loss be move deeply felt than in New Zealand where he leaves many intimate personal friends and a still wider circle of those, who, not knowing him personally, respect him none the less for his work’s sake. New Zealanders, indeed, can claim him as one of themselves, for he was born in this colony, and it was here, too, that he was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia, a diocese which forms a part of the Church of the Province of New Zealand.

The Great Fire.— Tonson Garlick & Co are selling their stock at Hoffman’s Buildings, Elliott-street, behind the Opera House. Ten Thousand Pounds worth of Carpets, Linoleum, Bedsteads, Fenders, Rattan Furniture. Overmantles, Bedding, Drawing Room Suites, and Furnishing Drapery. Snch a sale as this will be has held heenneverin Auckland.— Advt

-Etpui an. adv* rtisement in another column it will be seen that Mr W. shepherd Allen, of Anuaudale, is offering ,£-2 reward for the recovery of a b -y yearling filly.

of the prize winners at the recent dhow are naturally anxious to know when they may expect to receive their prizes, and the Secretary has been interviewed by one or two impatient individuals for information on the point. That official is busy compiling the official prize list, a task involving time and pains, and as soon as that is completed, the ‘ spoils ’ will he handed to the ‘victors.* It is expected that by Saturday afternoon at the latest, the Treasurer will be in a position to hand over all monies due to the winners.

A * camp ’ meeting of Mormon elders and adherents of Mormonism is now being held at Mangapai. .Twentytwo elders arrived by last steamer to attend camp.

The * Rangitikei Advocate ’ .says that recently a Mangatainoka settler became suspicious that a cow, the milk from which was being used for his family, was diseased. Accordingly he had a sample tested, the result being that it/ was declared to be 1 rotten.’ The bow was - subsequently destroyed, and found to be q, mass of cancerous matter internally.

Many of our more elderly readers are doubtless familiar with the name of Mr Cochrane Macky, who was in some measure identified with the boom at Waiorongomei in early days. Mr Maeky has been staying in Te Aroha, at the Family Hotel, for a few days, and undergoing a course of baths, from which, he tells us, he derived considerable benefit. Mr Macky left for Paeroa yesterday evening en route to Auckland.

A curious encounter was wi nessod in Hastings the, other morning, says the ‘ Standard.’ A resident heard a screeching noise at his back door, and on going out he discovered a kitten in cambat with a minah bird. The encounter, which lasted several minutes, was a desperate one, but eventuatly the kitten got the best of the job, and marched off with the bird to a secluded spot/ where, it made a very dainty breakfast, 1 ,

George H. Cornes, son of our re speettfd townsman Mr John Cornes, has passed the Matriculation and Solicitors’ General Knowledge examinations, held in December last. He purposes enrolling himself as an under graduate at the Un : versity College. Auckland in connection with the N.Z. University. He was formerly a pupil of the Te Aroha School and obtained a junior scholarship some four years ago which enabled him to proceed to the Auckland College and Grammar School.

Regarding the outbreak of typhoid fever at Perm, the ‘ Advertiser 1 says it is remarkable that all these who had become victims have been accustomed to drmk the water in the Puriri Creek. The fact that the drainage from the closets of some of the settlers living on the banks of the creek, flows into it, and thus contaminates the water, and that numbei ahMaoris dispo i t iem selves in the stream daily, would not tend to improve the purity of the water for domestic purposes. For once the ‘ Standard ’ has a good word for something connected with New Zealand. It is enthusiastic over the consignment of oysters recently brought over in Jioe, which ois ers, it is said, cau be supplied at one fif h the present high price for Eiglish ‘natives.’ ‘lf” says the Standard, * oysters as good as our own. can be •sold at one-fifth-the present price we need not trouble to raise them. At any rate we can assure our New Zealand friends that no matter how large the consignments sent over they will command a ready sale.’

As a gladiator trained the body so must we train the mind to self-sacrifice ‘to endure all things’ to meet and over come difficulty and danger. We must take the rough and 'thorny roads as well as the smooth and pleasant; and a portion at least of our daily duty must be hard and disagreeable; for the mind cannot be kept strong and healthy in perpetual sunshine only, and the most dangerous of all states is that of constantly recurring pleasure, ease and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough without seeking them; let them not repine but take them as a part of-that education and discipline necessary to fib the mind to: arrive at its highest good.

Under the head of “ New Zealand Looking Up,” the Westminster Gazette says :—“ At last New Zealand is prospering. She has had an uphill struggle against adversity for many years. But now the tide has turned. The last mail to hand brings enoouraging accounts from all parts of the colony of recent progress in many departments of trade and. commerce. Population, too, is increasing markedly, and immigration and colonisation are primarily responsible for the increment. A. large percentage of the arrivals, too, is composed of small capitalists and persons with some means. Re - ports from the South Island are particularly: bright and enoouraging, and unmistakable evidence of what may be termed oommeroial optimism is said to he everywhere manifest.’ , 5 .

In consequence of excessive outside competition in the printing trade, the Proprietors of the News have made arrangements for morePeconomical working by the introduction of improvements in the Printing Department. The Foreman of that department has received instructions to execute all orders at Auckland prices, less carr iagu

The trial of Frank Philpott, alias Stanhope, for the murder of A. E. Hawthorne, was begun on Tuesday at Wellington, A fire occurred early yesterday morning in Judd’s drapery warehouse, Queen-street. Mr Dalton, tailor, also sustained some damage.

Mr Frank Lipsey, of the News staff, is suffering from an acut9 attack of influenza, we regret to say. The arrival at Sheffield of twentyfive truoks of German-made hydraulic apparatus has caused a great sensation among workers in that city. The order for the,.goods was sent to Ger many instead of being executed locally, owing to the engineers’ strike.

As an outward and visible sign of the interest taken in the Te Aroha Agicultural and Horticultural fcffiow, we may state that we sold every copy of an extra edition of Tuesday’s issue of the News, containing our report of the show.#

The Te Areha team is practising at the ranges in anticipation of the return shooting match against the Thames Navals, whioh eventuates here on Saturday.—Thames Star.