LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 8, 30 April 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald in consequence of the revival of interest in volunteer and military affairs has introduced a column of news devoted to the volunteer movement. Mr Jewel who has been connected as the son of the principal shareholder with the Waitokauri United left on Tuesday last accompanied by Mrs Jewell, for Wellington en ronte for England. They sail in the Moana if they areunanccessfull in catching the Aorangi. New Zealand "railways cost per mile, including rolling stock ‘-Auckland district £7,175 ; Napier'districfc £7,410 ; Wellington district £11,658; Hurunui»Bluff district £7.616; Nelson branch £7,200; Picton branch £9,753. < Y Te Aroha has been gazetted 'borough—.*' - ” circus was cro tvded last-night. While in town the other day the Rev Mr Campbell was inundated with inquiries about the date of the start of the Montezuma G;M. Co.’s plant, for the treatment of refractory ores by the hyperphoric process. We are assured on the very best authority that the work will be commenced in a few days. Last night the Rev E. J. McFarland called at this office, and .we were delighted to see him looking,: comparatively speaking, so well, although still showing traces of his recent severe illness, As will be seen from the Anglican Church notice he will preach at St. Mark’s in the evening, the Rev Mr Campbell conducting the morning service. Mr Kersey Cooper, of the Royal Standard mine fame, at present-on a visit to England, is now'at Brighton where he has been staying for some little while. V . Mr Geo. Truscott, the well-known mine manager, left the Thames this week en.route to Western Australia. 'Mr Truscott has been q resident of the field since its infancy, and has followed the occupation of a miner - since boyhood. He obtained a fipst-cjass Government mine managei-’s certificate a few years ago whilst attending the School of Mines, and has had charge of several mines on the peninsula. Latterly he had been employed by a Dunedin syndicate managing a mine in Otago, but in consequence of the mine not reaching anticipations operations were suspended. Mrs Truscott, who accompanies him, always took a keen interest in matters musical in connection with St. Francis’ Church, and has frequently assisted at benefit performances, and their many Thames friends will join in wishing them success in the sister colony. Our Te Aroha West correspondent writes:—Great interest is being taken in the Education Board’s proposal to remove; the local school to a central site to suit both Te.Aroha We3t and Manawaru settlers. Opinion, however, is divided, the majority being in favor of asking for a new school, on the grounds that even if the school were removed, some children would even then have to travel four or five miles to reach it.—The influenza epidemic is at present very prevalent in the district, several, both youngs and old, having been stricken down with it.

In consequence of the war, stocks of kerosene, cigars and cigarettes, are being held back for a rise. If the Spanish-American war proves a protracted one, we shall probably have to pay dearly for our kerosene.

As our readers are aware Messrs Sutton and Sons secured the contract for the erection of the Presbyterian Church at Te Aroha: The timber for the edifice is already stacked on the site in Whitaker-street. A few particulars as to dimensions may be of interest. The length of the building will be 41ft. x 26ft. in breadth; wit'i a 12ft. 6in. elevation, and an open roof with a diagonal line. The side walls will be pannelled throughout with mountain remu panels and kauri battens. The building will be buttressed to guard against damage by the heavy winterly winds.

Shooting season for Native and imported game commences on Monday next, 2nd May. ' Mr Fred Lipsey, while working in the Piutus mine, met with a painful accident on Wednesday, a piece of steel flying up and piercing his eye while engaged in putting in a shot. Dr Gilbert Smith is attending the sufferer. We were glad to see the member for the Bay of f Plenty electorate passing through the township yesterday, and to learn that he is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of quinsy. The popular young school master of Te Aroha West, been suffering from influenza, but is now on the high rbad to recovery. XFcr Coughs and Colds take Wood’s , Great Peppermint Care, 1/6 and 2/6 At the Wesleyan Church, to-morrow, the Rev J. W. Burton, of Paeroa, will preach morning and evening. The subject in the morning will be ‘The Growing Christ—the Dying Self ’; and in the evening, * Wilt Thou T The sacred solo ‘ Calvary * will be rendered during the offertory at the evening service, by Mr Hilton, of Karangahake. ■ ' The Te Aroha Brass Band was in lack’s way on Thursday night. During the performance in the Domain a gentleman staying at one of the hotels sent a list of music to the bandmaster soliciting their performance, accompanying the request with a handsome donation to the band funds. So pleased was the visitor with the band’s performance and ready acquiescence that he insisted on their repeating the programme in front of his hotel. The band funds, we need not add, were after that swelled by a further gift. The arrival of the circus caused a flutter of excitement among the juvenile population yesterday. We understand that considerable consternation was created among a number of the smaller members of the community congregated around Gallagher’s stables yesterday, where the famous elephant was located, when that intelligent quadruped, finding his quarters rather /jlose and uncomfortable—-the thermometer registered 75 yesterday—poked his bead through the wall for the purpose of regulating the temperature in his stall. XFor Coughs and Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure 1/s and 2/6

A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that many butchers employed at North Canterbury freezing factories are off duty through blood poisoning, contracted by handling old sheep, ‘boilers/ He says the directors pay th©-butchers 17s 6d per hundred for freezers, and 12s 6d for the potters, the poison of the latter b*ing thrown in as a present. Some North Island factories'give half-pay ti their' disabled butchers, but ours advertise for fresh ones. -

Messers Miln9 and Ohoyce, Auck-, land, are now showing great varieties of the newest styles in all -classes of goods. They have novelties in millinery, mantles, capes, Jackets, etc., and can give , special value in dressing gowns. Patterns and prices can be had on application- ; y Cycling maps of the North Island on sale at the News Sationary Depart-ment.—-Adyt.

Popular as Is the macrocavpa tree for plantations and gardens and hedges, says the Christchurch “ Press.” it will come as an unplesant surprise to many people to learn on the authority of Mr Joyce, the gardener at Elmwood, that it is not at all suitable for gardens, as it is short-lived, haying an existence of only from fifteen to twenty years. As a permanent hedge, he said, the macrocarpa did not answer, and he would like it condemned by the Society. •

A correspondent of the Wanganui ‘ Chronicle ’ declares that iu the Wanganui Hospital, where the eight hours system is supposed to prevail, delicately nurtured girls and women are sometimes on duty 18 hours out of the 44.

A further warning to those about to try their luck at the Klondyke is contained in a letter received by Mr B W Harvey, of Invercargill, from his nephew, dated Elensburg (Wash., U.S.),March 18. He says:—“l see that a lot of New Zealanders are heading for Alaska. jlf they don’t get a sickening before they get back then I’ll change my name, The towns up there are full of the worst crowd of thieves and cut-throats that ever breathed. They will knock a man down in daylight and rob him. After dark they will murder you. Many people are dying from all sorts of diseases,, and they don’t trouble to put them under ground either—they just scrape a hole in the snow and put them in. Summer will tell the rest.” At Levaliois-Perret near Paris, there lived until quite recently a man who was a confirmed dipsomaniac, so much so that he had several times been put under restraint by his relatives. The last time he came out he seems to have been greatly impressed by representations which were made to him as to the evils of drinking. Prom that moment, by a perverse sort of interpretation of the good advice ho had received, he determined to drink nothing at all, not even water. At the end of ten days, during which he had not a drop of drink of any sort he was found dead in his room. This man, who had consumed so much liquid in his time, died literally of thirst. *• / X For Coughs and Colds take Wood’s . Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6