Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1898.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2081, 1 March 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1898.

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The heat in Hobart (Taa) is intense. It was 101 jp the shade there on Friday last. The following candidates have passed for Class E at the recent teacher’s examination i Mr W. Joil (late of Waihou) ; Misses E. M. Hill (Waihou) and M. S. Lavery (Te Aroha), obtained partial E. certificates On Saturday evening the Rev Joseph Campbell was booked to deliver hiß lecture on the hyperphorio process at Waihi. The Katikati Hack Club’s meeting on Thursday last is reported to have been a great success. In another column will be found the weights for the Te Aroha Jockey Club’s meeting on March 14th. The local band gave one of their much appreciated bpen«air performances oa Sundty afternoon in the Domain. The tenders for repair of the Piako County tramway at Waiorongomai were opened on Saturday with the following result. E. T. Pink, £2617; ,T; Anderson, £244 (accepted). We understand that that smart corps, the Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers No. 1, are going to give an assault at arnia on March 12th, at Karangahake, On Wednesday, 80th March, Messrs Me— Nicol and Co will hold a clearing sale at Clements’ Park. Cambridge, on behalf of Mr W. H. Wright, who has disposed of his farm. Mr &. E. Alderton, of Messrs Alderton and Wyatt, printers, and publishers, Whangarei, intends publishing four editions of the 1 Resources of New Zealand.’ The Ist edition will relate to Auckland, including a description of the Te Aroha Thermal Spvings, and will be published in MayJune, the 2nd and 3rd editions will be de» voted to Wellington. Napier, Whanganui and Taranaki, and the 4th edition will be combined as one mammoth edition and form a grand Christmas, number to be issued in time for the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition. The half-yearly meeting of the Bunk of New Zealand was held in Wellington on Thursday. The business was merely formal. Mr Watson explained that the accounts, would, be made up to March 31st, and the balance of profit wild be probably made known in June, The balance»sheet®has to be submitted to Parliament within ten days-of its meeting. He stated that the profits for the- first half of the financial year exceeded those fe>r the same period last year. The cheapness of money and keen competition may reduce profits- for the second half below the usual To.vel. It was expected to be able to pay off arrears, to the Assets- Board,which with the sum then due will at March 31st, 1898; amount to £74,000and whatever net profits there -may be in excess of that amount will go. as dividend to the shareholders until they receive five per eent. per annum on the second call paid by them. The live business of the- Bank is being well maintained. During the year 1897 the Bank was the largest exporter of wool from the colony. The realisation of properties is being steadily proceeded with. In Ameiica, it instated, there is a great and increasing fondness for fungi at food, and as it is almost useless to suppose- that people who are fond of eating fungi will be able to become experts in distinguishing edible from poißonouß species, it is considered that the time has come when the sale of fungi should be controlled by law. Farmers and others take to the market fungi which they have found growing wild,, and it is suggested that they should be compelled to sell their goods- only at authorised places and authorised hours; and there should be appointed experts to examine all fungi sold. The experts could be paid wholly or in part by fees received from those selling fungi This system has worked well in parts of France and. Italy. In those < ©entries fungi form a larger portion of the food of the poorer classes than it does in Americi. There is- good reason why the sale of fungi should be guarded by law in the interest of those who neither pretend, nor can be expected, to have any clear knowledge of the species which may be offered for sale, A writer in the January number of * Chamber's Journal ’ throws some interesting light on rare and peculiar drugs. Saffron, he points out, would strike an ordinary observer as decidedly expensive at 56sa pound until told that it is composed of the central small portions ouly of the flowers of a crocus, 76,0J0 of which it takes to- yield the material for lib-. Otto of roses sells at £2B odd per pound, and it takes 10 OOG> pounds, or nearly five tons, of roses to obtain lib of oil. Aconitine, extracted from the root ©f monkshood, is said to- be the very strongest poison extant, the dose being 1,660 th of a grain. It is sold at the rate ol £27 per ounce. We are glad to be able to announce that the Vicar of Te Aroha (the Rev E. J. Me. Farland), who has been suffering from a severe and painful attaek of illness has at last taken a turn for the better. When we called upon the rev gentleman yesterday, be is still confined to bed, we were shocked to ob-erve the havoc sickness had wrought in his appearance. Dr Smith found it necessary to perform a slight operation, which, we are glad to be able to state afforded his, patient considerable relief and paved the way to the convalesence upon which, we sincerely trust, he has at last entered. To Mrs M -Farland, who has had a most trying and anxious time recently, all denominations are united in extending their sympathy. Although Mr McFarland is out cf the wood, it will probably be weeks before he will ba able to resume his duties.

A notice of importance to medical students appeared in Saturday’s Herald, intimating that, two years at Auckland Uniyersity Colledge will con t as part of the medical course cither at Cambridge or at any of the Scottish Universitirs. Students who. have taken advantage of this arrangement have gratefully acknowledged the benefits which they have derived from pursuing this portion of their studies here, and it is easy to understand that the comparatively small number of students here secures for each individual a large amount of direot instruction. In consequence of excessive outside competition in the printing trade, the Proprietors of the News have made arrangements for more economical working by the introduction of improvement! in the Printing Department. The Foreman of that department has received instructions to execute all orders at Auckland prices, less carriage

The Domain Boird meet to-morrow night I at the usual time and placeOn Friday evening next the annual meet* j ing of the Te Aroha Rifle Volunteers will | t’ke place in Smardon’s Hall at 8 p.m, as | will be seen from an advertisement in another column. There will be no drill this week. Mr Hunt, according to our Karangahake contemporary, states that with Mr Daw s secret process, in nse at the Crown mine, ore which formerly was put on one side will be treated when the 60 stampers are working, and made to pay. As to the process itself it has been left t© the directors to decide as to whether the whole thing should be made public. Numerous inquiries have Mr Hunt states, being received from other colonies as to the exact nature of the process which has been adopted at the battery. A Hamilton correspondent writes :—“ I have from, time to time sent you pa. a relating to tohangaß, Maori prophets and ■ medicine men who have at various pe: iods j been carrying on business in Ngarnaw-ahia - and other places in the Waikato. That the | game was a paying one there is not the | i slightest doubt; but it is gen-rally conceded that the aforesaid medio no men have not altogether been unconnected with > the sad decrease in the- number>,of natives, i .of New Zealand as. shown by the census-, ; returns. The latest development I ', in this ; direction comes from Te Kowhaiabout | ’ half way between Ngaruawabia and Whata- ■ : whata, where a native named 1 Ahau has. i been booming the healing business for all it is worth. lame, halt and blind cou trymen have been rolling up from all parts of j • the island, and as 1 ii fees; e- on the sliding, scale from £1 to £2O, according to : the ' ! means of the patient, and the expenses are i not great—immersion in the Woipa River being the chief feature in the treatment — he has been doing, to use a Yankeeism, tolerably well. There has of late been such an increased demand upon hia services that he finds his whare totally inadequate toaccommodate hia rapidly increasing tribe of patients, and has struck the brilliant idea of building a Hospital on strictly 1 pakeha fine 3. Such a building is no w being , erected' within a stone’s, throw of the mala I road to Te Kowhai, and the neighbouring pakeha pettier® do not at[all relish the idea. It is understood they intend taking steps to prevent the project being out; but as Ahau is building his sanatorium upon his own land, it is questionable whether they will succeed. The prospect of having a host of Maoris undergoing treatment for the numerous, ailments and diseases to which our dusky coloured brothers are heir, with an utter- disregard; to- even the ordinary sanitary laws,, is, anything but a one. On Saturday evening- Mr Alderton, the-well-known proprietor of the ‘ Northern. Advocate,’ called upon us. During the course of conversation the unfortunate outbreak of phylloxera, (a plant louse) in his vineyard at Whangarei, was mentioned, This vineyard cost Mr Aldertonmany years, of anxiety, toil, and a considerable outlay in money, before it was brought to. the ; state of perfection it enjoyed prior to. the visitation we have referred to>. and he cherished a hope that in the course of'time it would not only provide a welcome addition to his income,, but form a valuablelegacy to bequeath to, his, children. Norwere his expectations- altogether disap,pointed For some years the vines and deciduous fruits with, which the vineyard', was. stocked yielded an agreeeble return for. the- time- and care bestowed upon them, and Mr Alderton. hadj the additional satisfaction, of seeing.all the work necessaryfor the proper cultivation of the vineyard performed by his children alone. Our readers, therefore, will readily imagine hisconsternation when he received notice of an arbitrary order for the destruction of his vines—lock, stock and barrel,, as. he ex» pressed it,, on-the lAfchof, this month. As an experienced viticulturist Mr Alderton- estimates his prospective loss at £1000; We can net he! pindUlging a hope, though but a curs-, ory glance at the A.ct (.Garden and. Orchards Fbsts, Act), reveals the vanity of doing so, that one of the proverbial loopholes through which a coach- and; six may be- driven may not be-discovered in this piece- of legislation in time-to save Mr Alderton’s vineyairdi from the utter- and complete destruction with which it is-threatened,. Mr Charles Wright,, commercial traveler, representing the CampbellBhrenfried Brewery Company, is reported as missing from the Omapere., Alfred Jones; workingia the Martha mine, Waihi, was seriously injured in the eye last week. Typhoid is rampant in Coromandel.. George Barrett, the famous English jockey, is dead. We have received an- order for replicas of a handsome memorial card recording the burial of Mr Thomas Lin-nett, who spent all the 80 years of his life at Dodford, England, and in the same house. He was a famous grower of flowers. Mr Lin-nett was thefather of Mr Linnett, a well-known Karangahake resident,, for whom we are doing the work referred to. A trotting match for £25 a side has been arranged between two well-known local owners. The- match will takeplace in about three- weeks time. We have to call the attention of those whom it may concern to the sale of privileges in connection with the Te Aroha Jockey Club Races at Smardon’s on Friday, the 4th next, at ID a.m.