Te Aroha Ohinemuri News SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2097, 23 April 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha Ohinemuri News SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wfcitoa Road Board notify that Gobbing Bridge, on the Gorge Road, is closed to all wheel traffic, pending the .flection of a new bridge. The annual. meeting of footballers will be held in the Town Hall this evening at 7.30 sharp. All interested are invited to .attend.

A Westralian jury awarded £426 damages for injuries sustained by Thomas Victor Wright, four years old,on board the steamer Barcoo. On the arrival of the steamer at Freemantle. the child put his hand out of a porthole, and had the thumb crut-he 1 so severely that’it had to be amputated.

~ Oar Popular drapers Messrs. Hetherington & Co seem fully alive to the special wants of this district as fhey announce by advertisement in this mornings issue. Full particulars of their heavy shipments per English steamers of new Winter goods which they have received for the present season’s Wear. Each department being rather over stocked with the Very latest and most fashionable novelties obtainable/ Motherington & Co. solicit an early call of their numerous patrons. No one pressed to par* chase. So like a woman. At the Aaaeament Court held yesterday, says the ‘ Lyttletonl Times/ t6r thepurpose of hearing objections io the dfty valuations,a Jsidy watched the for some two hours with close attention. Becoming somewhat tired of inaction, she asked the Bench to hear her objection against the land tax valuation* Ou being informed that the Court was not. sitting for that purpose, the lady naively observed that if such was the case it was a shame to have kept her waiting all that time, ‘ You might have told me mo at first,, she remarked. v

An exchange says!— * Christian ’ England Sent in one year, on—Missions £1.050,000, ucation 11,000000, tea and coffee 25,000, 000, sugar 25,000,000, bread 70.000,000, liquor IS6 000.000. The amount spent in liquor would cover the cost of all the other items, and then leave a balance of £3,950. 000. We have little room to crow, however in New Zealand, where our mere • handful ’ off a population wastes anually £2,000000’ in intoxicating liquor. An old man named ' Tommy’ Hancock, employed for a number of years at Lewis’ Te Awamntu Motel as stableman, hanged himself on Tuesday evening. As he did sot appear at tea time, Young Mr Lewis went to the old man’s bedroom to call him. and on, striking a match flaw deceased hanging by the neOk about three feet off the fioor it appears that he climbed up a ladder and fastened the rope,around one of the, rafters. He was last seen at 4 o’clock , the same evening.

4 Is the system adopted by the New Zealand Government of settling people on the land on small homestead selections successful ?:Lord Ranfuriey w'a’s &%ed|in 'Be replied. ' .it works well so long as the areas are large enough to enaourage people toundert&ke theircnltivation* and provided also, they are near enough to centres Depopulation to enable the settlers to augment their incomes by working for ether people while their crops are growing. The danger of small holdings in the country districts where no such employment exists is that • they may produce a pauper peasantry,

The statement appearing in some of- the newspapers that Sir Herbert Kitchener. Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, is a native of Dnnedin, is quite incorrect. Sir Herbert was never in New Zealand, but at one time he had a brother wb® managed and partly owned ‘The Grange,’ a large station near Palmerston South, and another brother was burned to death in Dunedin a few years ago:— 4 Post/ • : - Special sermons will be preached at St. Mark’s to morrow by the Rev X Campbell In the morning, the subject will bo ‘Friendship,’ and in the even* ing * A Sermon from Shakespeare.’ Mr Tom Halstead, the well-known Auckland ‘vet,’ is, at present in'Te Aroha, and may be consulted at the Family Hotel. For Coughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint Care., 1/6 and 2/6 We are compelled through lack of space to hold over “Casual Yis : tor’s letter," country correspondence, and other matters. The attention of residents at Warnrongomai is directed to the faot that R<jv S. Griffith. wilMprench|> in the Waiorongom’tii schoqfhMiito tomorrow evening; the Service commences at 7 o’clock; i , We are compelled to hold over a number of hew advertisements, just received from Auckland/ on account of pressure on space ; but we (mist cal) attention to Fitzgerald’s circus advertisement in another column. ? For Coughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint hure. * 1/6 and 2/6. < 1 We have to call attention to \Mr E: Gallagher’s advertisement for ti-tree cutting on Recreation Reserve. A very large variety of Ladies’ New Capes and Jackets just to hand at Mr A W. Edwards’;—Advt.

A telegram announcing the result of the pigeon match for a gold medal; flown on Thursday afternoon from the school grouhd, has bepn received. .The, winning bird, owned by Mr H* Lowe, reached the Thames 1 hour 4 minutes after starting. The following will represent the Te Aroha Cricket Club liii the match with Morrinsyille to be play- d in Lipsey’s paddock to day : —Pavitt, sehr., Lewis, Sraales, Oliver, Pavitt, junr., Pilling. R Bell, \Burlace, |^gar ? Hirst, and Pearson. Emergencies Kinnahan, Hartneady, arid Bygrave.

For Coughsand Cobla Trke Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 1 and 2/6 The settlers at 3-e Xroha will, no doubt; be pleased 'to learn that (be parochial nominators have nominated the Rev F. G. Evatfs ; for%he : position of vicar of St. Mary’s Church,, New Plymouth, in suCoessiou to Archdeacon Govett. iL w«mld be difficult, says the Taranaki Herald of Tuesday last, .for. the parishioners tP hfive chosen a more .vicar, tho.s Mr has admirably dernonstratedhia fitness in evpry way to attend to the duties of this ‘ tubst important position. The mvCnmition papers have been forwarded t» the Bishop, who it is expected, will confirm the parochial choice. The Rev Mr Evans was for several years in charge ef the. Anglican Church at Te Aroha.

Cycling maps of the Noith Island on sale at the News Sationary Depart-ment.—-Advt.