LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2097, 26 April 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (HicksBeach) speech shows the surplus for the year to be nearly four millisss.

The Auckland Foot-hall season comment ceß in May 7th* For Caughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint hure. 1/6 and 2/6. Anyone requiring a musical instrument of any description cannot do better than write to Messrs Hoffman & Sons whose advertisement appears in another column for their price iist. Messrs Hoffman offer every facility in the matter of time pay* ments.

'* We have much pleasure in directing the’ attention of our readers to the number of new advertisements appearing’; in our columns to day. In these times when the air is full of war and rumours! of war a good atlas is a boon and we can cordially recommend readers visiting town to loos in and inspect Messrs. Upton & Co’s stock of Imperial atlases. Tonson Garlick and good furniture are synonymous terms. At present this : eminent firms, pending thai' erection of their new and eommodibus premises.. »re in the occupation of a building directly opposite their old place of business. Nathan’s teas ; are famous tnroughout the colony and we need do no more than call attention to their advertisement.

A woman named Annie Looney was arrested in Fielding last Saturday evening by Constable Tworpay on a charge of alleged lunacy, aud was taken to Palmerston by the 11 a.m. train on the Monday morning for medical examination. She endeavoured to purchase some vitriol from a chemist with the intention it is presumed, of making it hot for a certain tradesman. Taken in conjunction with the fact that some months ago that she amused herself taking pot shots at the inhabitants of Fielding with a revolver there should be no difficulty in getting her consigned to the asylum. She was tried on the latter charge, but the case was dismissed. The woman may be road but she seems to be a dangerous character.

* Says the Waikato Times,* Mr Luke's reference to the teaching of writing, and his opinion that too much attention is paid to it, will be widely endorsed. For years past we have been trying to make every child’s writing alike, ignoring individuality and sinking it in the angle of an upstroke the point of junction of two letters or the formation of a loop. What a waste of time and trouble to no purpose in an effort to suppress an individuality which, sooner or later> is bound to assert itself. So in other subjects we pound away on old lines, and instead of cultivating that intelligence and alertness alluded;to by Mr Petrie >re stunt their growth.

For Coughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6 At the Dunedin Police Court bn Friday William Eleazor Giratone Heath was charged with having pretended to Alexander Moore that he could by crafty science discover where a portmanteau and watch, supposed to be lost could be found. For the defence it was pleaded that as the case presented features of considerable interest, as the defendant proposed to be a practiser of astrology and as the question to be decided was whether this was illegal, the case should be heard before a Magistrate- The police . offering no objection, a remand for one week was granted.

There have been large strikes in a number of German cities. In Berlin twelve thousand shoemakers have struck for a uniform scale of wages, and it is thought that the shoemakers elsewhere will join: The cabinet-makers of Hamburg and Al.tona have struck for nine hours’ work per day, and at Dresden eight thousand cigarettemakers have gone lout on Btrike. There are similar reports 1 from Charlottenburg, Stettin, Koenigsberg, and Sorau, and big strikes are impending in the Rhenish mining districts, At Baron von SnutnmV request a detachment of troops has been sent to the Saar district t® preserve order.

The new Post-office was opened at Waihou yesterday.

The services of the new Coromandel R.Y.’s have been accepted. Sunday morning many of our visitors declared was the most perfect day of the year—on the sunny , side of Whitaker-street. There was a touch of frost at night.

Captain Whiteley has been gazetted in that rank.

Every tradesman we have spoken to is in favor of the proposed introduction of gas in Te Aroha. An hotelkeeper told us he considered gas would save one man’s wages in his place.

The Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers have offered their services, to the Government for active service abroad, if required.

It will afford all our readers who are interested in the volunteer movement, and the difficulty now would be to find anyone who is not and satisfaction to learn that, such an experienced ex-officer as Mr Fred Wild has been gazetted lieutenant of the Te Aroha Rifle Volunteers.

A good atlas in these times is a "prolific source of profound interest and entertainment, arid we have pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to Upton and Co.’s lately published Victoria Regina Atlas, containing 200 coloured plates with all the recent geographical changes and discoveries. Orders taken at this office.

There will shortly be established a cadet corps in each of the populous centres of the colony. They will be under the command of Col. PolePeafcon,