LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2091, 5 April 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next Warden’s Court will sit on May 30th. For Coughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 arid 2/6

Prices at Waitoa were satisfactary last week: —fat steers, L 5 5s : Fat cows, L 3 10s steers from 20s to 60s ; yearlings from 7s 6d to 20s; fat sheep, 6s to 8s; horses from Ll 45s downwards. Mr E. Y. Cox’s pony phaeton was sold to Mr Taylor for LlO 10s. week we understand a start will be made in bottling, for table and medicinal purposes, water from the Katikati mineral Bpringß, now the property of Mr E. F. Buok worth. For years it has been Jknown that these waters are invaluable for indigestion, and visitors who have been there|and have had practical proof of their, virtues., have sent for a jar or two occasionally just to keep away the old enemy. The bottling is. to be done at Mr Clarke’s cordial factory.

For Coughs and Colds Trke Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6

Last week we announced that Messro Guthrie Bros had saenred the tender for the section of the Hot Springs Hotel. The amount of Guthrie Bros tender was £3,240. We are not able to say whether the building will be of remu or kauri. The following tenders were also received; F J Mathew, £3,457; E Wrigley, £3,497 ; Avery Bros. £3,500; A Pollard, x 3, 600 ; J. Rowe £3,645; G. M- Hancock. £3,700; J Ellingham L 3,755 ; W. Fairweather, L 3.776 ; L. Johns, L 3.850; A. Grandison, L 3.86 6; Jones and Son, L 3.863 ; Ferguson and Kay L 4.142; McCallum, L 4.160. Messrs Guthrie Bros.’ tender L 3.240, being the lowest was accepted.

Mr Win Hobbs, surgeon dentist, will pay his usual visit to Te Aroha on Wednesday next, 6th inst.

We have to call the attention of carpenters to an advertisement in another column. /\A 3-0 8 We observed yesterday the arrival of the Rev Maonicol of St. James’ Presbyterian Church, Auckland. We have to acknowledge receipt of the time-table for the New Zealand Government Railways. There are no alterations of local interest. flrxO

The Kalgoorlee miners seem te have had a better case than Sir John Forrest was at first willing to admit, and the obnoxious mining regulation, over which the recent trouble arose, has been repealed. S ~ The Post Office will be closed April Bth (Good Friday). Mail usually made up for Auckland Friday will dose Thursday at 7 p.m. On Easter Monday, 11th April, the office will be open in all branches from 9 to 10 a.m, and in the evening from 7 till 8 for postal business only. Mails close up to 10

*wn.; . / On Sunday morning, the day being Palm Sunday, a specially bright musical service was given at St. Joseph’s Church. Miss Quinn, the possessor of a sweet, well-trained soprano voice, singing Faure’s ‘ Les Rameaus ’ with great taste arid expression, and Miss Louie Featon being the accompanyist. The Church was well filled, and Father Kehoe’s sermon appropriate to the occasion.

It is with profound regret we have to announce the death of Mrs D. D. Macnicol on Sunday morning at 8.80. Although the lamented lady’s death was not entirely unexpected the intelligence came as a great shock to the numerous friends of the deceased, who was extremely popular in Te Aroha and the neighborhood. Mrs Macnicol was the daugher of Mrs D. Edwards, and sister of our much respected fellow townsman, Mr A. W. Edwards. Bhe leaves one little bey, happily too young to realize the full extent of the grievous loss he has sustained in the death of a devoted mother. On Sunday at noon the mother’s death was followed by that of her infant. Mr Macnicol has our sincerest sympathy in the terrible misfortune he has been called upon to undergo.

In connection with the recent celebration of Archdeacon Govett’e Jubilee at New Plymouth, some excellent photos of groups of the clergy of the district are shown in the N.Z. Graphic. In each of the views the Rev F. G. Evans (late vicar of Te Aroha), occupies aprominent position. The Graphic may be had at the ‘ Nbws ’ Stationary Department.

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. Overmantlea, Bedding, Drawing Room Suites, and Furnishing Drapery. Such a sale as this will be has held beenneveria Auckland.—A»vt.

Yesterday afternoon Mr Grattan’s six-year old boy, Henry, while returning home in company with his father and Mr Reynolds, had the misfortune to slip HEtb a hole in which a tea-tree stump was smouldering under a thin cruet of earth, severely burning his feet and ankles. The poor little fellow, on being extricated from his dangerous position, ran home and jumped inters tub ©f water. Oastor oil and flourt* were applied!© thobarao, and later on an application was procured from Mr Robson. Mr Grattan asks us to point out to travellers the dangerous condition of the roadway known as Grattan’s in consequence of bush fires. It is unfit hr traffio at present.

For Coughs and Col da take Wood’s Great Peppermint hare. 1/6 and 2/6.

A number of Tauranga natives have returned from the meeting at Wahi, near Huntly. Up to the time they left no business had been transacted, the time being occupied with hafeas, singing and band playing. Our natives could not wait any longer, being anxious to go gumdigging, the price of gum having risen.—B.P. Times.

We understand, says the Goldfields Advocate, that Mr Sheperd Allen, who has on several occasions confcrib uted generously to religious and philanthropic movements in this province, has promised to largely assist in the erection of a Wesleyan chapel in this town.

Wheels in yonr head, ungreased. That’s awkward. Not drink P No. Flu Flu, you. know what that is.? Infienza, that’s not brought on by swallowing a box of dominoes. It’s a very severe cold in every part of the body; the treatment is pure, simple and effective. Take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure; it knocks it out every time. Paste this on the kitchen clock.

Eight more Mormon missionaries are coming to New Zealand to work principally among the Maoris, among whom they claim 400 members. There will shortly be a large gathering at Wairarapa, where Hirini Whaonga, a chief who left some; years ago for Utah, is expected to be present. At an inquest on the bodies of two children burnt to death at Collingwood, Melbourne, a week ago. when a verdict of accidental death was returned, the coroner commented on palpable danger of anyone leaving a lighted lamp in a house where there were only children. Further commenting on the evidence he said that the mother had been guilty of carelessness, but that it did not amount to criminal negligence. The coroner, however, appeared to fully realise that the grief-stricken woman had bden fearfully punished.

In gauging apples for export, the minimum size allowed to receive the Victorian Government bonus of Is per case has.hitherto been 2&ia diameter. As the result of the dry season, the fruit is smaller than usual, and the Horticultural BoardTast week resolved in favor of a reduction of the standard. A reduction to will be made for the apples known as M argil and Scarlet Nonpareil, two varieties much used for export. I’m not in the waggon business. I am strictly in the tip business. I don’t want Jou to lose sight of the fact that my tips will o you good if yon good if you take hold. Now, you’re a family man -children not over strong—doctors are expensive— ‘ winter’s coming on.' Keep a pottle of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure in the House; will stop the inevitable family cough. Cost, is €d. Saves doctors bills; cheats the undertaker. Nuf sed.‘

The much debated federal capital of Australia has been fixed by Messrs Carrufchers, Barton and Wise for somewhere in New South Wales* The first named is reported to have said: “I have no manner of fioubtabout it. I conversed on this subject, not* only with delegates from other colonies, but also with leading public men in Victoria aud South/Australia, and they candidly expressed to me their view that no other place except New South Wales could decently lay claim to the site of the Federal city.” This is somewhat strange, after we have been led to believe that every man in the Convention, to retain the confidence of those who elected him, had to fight tooth and nail for having the capital in his own colony. An Australian paper, referring to the death of the lata Bishop Selwyn, said that a better bishop never trod, yet such is secular human nature that people were constantly diking themselves ought he to-fca.vaijsea : a Mshop. When he was a bishop, even the humblest observers felt this doubt, and put words and sentiments into his mouth which were not his, hut which it was considered ought to be. Dr. Selwyn himself told, with smothered amusement, some years ago, an incident which befel him .when travelling on ©ne of the intercolonial steamers. He stole down into the engine room to smoke, not exactly a surreptitious, but a private pipe, and, feeling in his pockets, found he had no light. To a ship’s boy standing near he said, “ Run up, like a good boy, will you, and get me a match.” The youth obeyed with respectful alacrity, and was heard bellowing loudly on deck, “ Hurry up there, can't you, here’s the Bishop cuasin’ and swearin’ and layin’ there ain’t a match in the ’ole blarated ship.” He han been taken by the geniality and bonhomie of the Bishop's face and manner, and made him talk as (to his mind) one entitled to reverence and obedience should talk