LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2094, 16 April 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tfie following are the names of the team chosen to play for Te Aroha in the return match against Waitekauri to-day:- Pavitt Senr. (Capt.), Lewis, Smales, Oliver, Bell, Bygrave, Pilling Hartneady, Hirst, Eagar and Pavitt junr. | -

A number of new advertisements appear in this issue to Which we can not do more than call attention this morning.

Inspector Hickson believes the - application for -the extradition of Oipen will be successful, it will come before the Ban Francisco court at the end of the month. We remind our readers of the fact that Mr Wm. Hobbs, will pay his usual visit to Te Aroha on Wednesday next, 20th inst., when he may be consulted at Mr Robson's pharmacy. Last night a smoke concert was to be held in Smardon's Hall in honor of the visit of the Waitekauri eleven, whose Waikato tour; has been attended by such success. To-day they meet the Te Aroha eleven at Lipsey’s pad dock.

To the JJEtp 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 Bar Drums, has just issued the 100th edition of his 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 system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist n Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.—Advt.

Sir John Lubbock has gone to the an again, and if he keeps up his visits and others imitate him that interesting insect will become useless for Sunday-school purposes. Sir John succeeded in getting fifty ante helplessly drunk and then placed them outside an ant hill. The saber ants came out, picked up their friends and put them to to sleep off the effects of Sir John’s liquor, the strangers, however, they sternly rolled over into the ditch. The Bay of Plenty Times says that the Opotiki natives were much disappointed, when the Native Land Court closed there at the non-arrival of a Land Purehase Officer They have a large block of land which they wish to dispose of to the Government, and the cash for the Bale wonld come in handy to them just now. As an example of how breaches of discipline are beiug dealt with at present in the Volunteer Force, it may be mentioned that there was only one case of drunkenness in the camp at North Shore. The culprit was punished in the following manner:—He was fined £l, detained in. the guard tent for six hours, then marched under an escort to Auckland and deprived of his uniform. The special correspondent of a home paper writes : Men at Dawson now freely declare that when Mr Ogilvie sampled ex* ceedingly rich panfuls of a Klondy ke creek's gravel—from which he formed an estimate of £70,000,000 as the probable output during a series of years from several notecTYoukon creeks—he was cleverly tricked by raocals who had previously * railed ’ the claims thus tested. It is at least certain that productive as those richer creeks have since, on the whole, proved, their yield has failed to approach the first indications of those historic pannings; and Mr Ogilvie, who is noted as not only a most skilful surveyor and geolographer, but also as a scrupulously honest and painstaking official, has since found it necessary to deprecate 1 boom ’ expectations of wouid-be Youkon geld winners.

The scarcity of feed is having a very serious effect on the price of cattle. We ( ‘ Palmerston Times ’) ara informed that at Hampden the other day a farmer offered a number of milking cows, for which he had no feecLs£.£l per head, afid’the bargain, was eveutiEW clinched at 18a 6d.per head, will, no be considered a bargain, but, as the sequel will prove, the purchaser after all paid too dear for the cattle. He sent them to Dunedin, and—will it be believed they only brought 12s 6d per head, so that the purchaser who paid 18a 6d per head for the cattle, and who naturally considered he had got ‘ a soft thing,’ actually lost 8s per head besides the cost of railage. .A man named J. Faivey fell into the Ohinemuri Biver, opposite Mrs, Capill’s boarding-house on Saturday afternoon. A comrade of his, named P. Herbert, who was standing on the bank of the river, sang out for help, and several of Mrs Capill’s boarders, in response, immediately secured a beat, and rescued Faivey from his perilous position.

Ab anticipated the auctioneers Messrs Mock ay and Pratt, who offered last week at Auction 22 Freehold and Leasehold sections in waitekauri, have now disposed of the whole of the blocks with the exception of two small sections which are now under offer and these they expect to clear this week. The above firm reports that an im« proved demand is now prevailing for properties throughout the Ohinemuri District. .. -Wheels in your head, ungreaaed. That’s awkward. Not drink? No. Flu Flu,you know what that is ? Inflenza, that's not brought on by swallowing a box of dominoes. It’s a very severe cold in every part of the body j 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. The February issue of 1 Night and Day’ edited by Dr Bernardo,informs us that Her Eoyal Highness the Princess of Wales has become the Patroness of the Young Helpers’ League ’ ; and it also contains a facsimile of the princess’s letter of acceptance written in her own hand. The magazine is crowded with information concerning the progress ®f the work in Dr Barnardo’s hands. For example, it shows that during the twelve months of 1897, bis homes have dealt with 13,316 separate caseaof child-misery * 2,249 fresh Emissions. 83 were babies in arms, 53 were deaf and dumb, or blind, or little incurables. The ‘ Ever Open Doors ’ scattered throughout the provinces, and in the deeps of London Slumdom, have in thesame period supplied 74,645 nights lodgings to forlorn street wanderers, to whom 89,256 free meals were also given. It appears also that the incomefor 1897 exhibited a decrease of £3,706. and that consequently the work is more than ordinarily in need of help. A copy of the issue will be forwarded gratis and post free to any one who sends name and address to the Head Offices of the Homes, 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, London; E.

A well-known member of the Te Aroha Rifles while in town the .'other day took it into his head te vary the monotony of camp life with an oyster supper. Accord* ingly, accompanied by a friend (male), he betook himself to the Auckland ‘Trois Freres/ and ordered a score of the succulent bivalves apiece, suitably supported by plates of thin brown bread and butter and refreshments of a liquid character. After partaking of a hearty meal the couple separated, our friend returning to camp in searoh of hiß well-earned repose under the regulation blankets. That night, in the our unfortunate acquaintance Was-. aroused from his slumbers by feeling somebody or something prizing his nut open—as he expressed it -ocoiput, we presume he meant. According to his graphic description it felt as if somebody had inserted a crowbar under the base of his skull and was attempting to lift the roof of his head off. With journalistic intuition we recognised at onso that wo wore in the presence of a mystery—one of those de» lightful mysteries Mr Stead writes about in the Raview of "Review. At this point we furtively rubbed our hands with satisfaction under cover of our knee-hole desk, and calmly requested him to continue his narrative. ‘That’s all,’ he replied. ‘But how do you account for it ?’ we persisted.- ‘ Oh * we had eaten some of the ‘Wolvorine’ oysters that had got poisoned with the ship's brass fixings.’ Heedless youth, Mr Stead and we knew better than that. It was the disembodied spook of an oyster which by pure living, had attained one of the higher planes of the astral system, that had followed him home and worried him in the silence of the night. Bnt it’s no good talking to some fellows* They are not, and some of them never will be, ripe enough to receive the truth about Theosophy, and what will become of them wo don’t know.

Gold! Gold 1 Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard, and cold 1 Thousands of rich people would give all they possess to have nature’s wealth—Good Health. Consumption frequently starts with a nasty little cough A bottle of Woods’ Great Pepperment Cure will stop this or any kind of cough. Yes, stop it at orce Go to the store and get a bottle straight away—its only le €d