Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2104, 17 May 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mesoro McNicol and Co. advertiss their next Waitoa Bale.

The ordinary meeting of the Piako County Council will be held at the County Office MorrinoviUe, on Wednesday, 18th inst., at 'lla.m. ■'

The new Wesleyan Church at Karangahake will bo opened on Monday; 23th inst/ by the Rev. A Mitchell,at 11 a.m.'; the Bev H. R. Dewsbury, chairman of the Auckland Dißtriot.will conduct the evening service. Special hymns ’will be sung by the choir.

The following tenders have been received for the erection ‘of a Catholic chapel at Waitekauri ; Avery' Bros, £260; Thos. Hunt, 41§$jf|Euhtar, £17514; C Collins, £178"3 (accepted). " ■* -t

i Pi Crosby, of Hamilton, was charged with betting with an infant, to wit, a boy of twelve, at Paeroa* on St. Patnok’s Day. He received an awful elating from the Magistrate, and was fiaed .£lO and' coats. Another “ bookie’’waafined the same for refusing to moye off when requested.

The Waitda Btoad Board invite applications for two surfacemen. For; further particulars'see advt. :

Our Paeroa contemporaries are having a high old time, to judge from. the following journalistic gem --“The literary scavenger who scrapes up rubbish for? the “ Ohinemuri Gazette ” is sadly iu need of a pink pill for pale people.*’—Tribune.

The clerk of the Te Aroha Town Board notifies elsewhere that the balance sheet of the Town District for period ending March Slat, 1898, is now open for inspection at the Board’s office. Let the croaker croak, and the hard time howler howl. We know hard times as bad as those in a sick household. The .start — a slight.cough, gets worse, keeps everybody in the house awake, father swears, mother ditto. Avoid these troubles. Keep a bottle of Woods' Great Pepperment Cure in the house; it never fails, a half crown bottle will cure the whole family, Men make money, women spend it. A women (married of course) knows a mam’s needs. He, the guide, philosopher and husband, is satisfied. Everything is provided for him"’. When he gets ill, for instance, a bad.cough, aay, out cornea a hot® tie, of Woodi^?Great Pepperment Cure. All sensible wives keep that in the house, it’s such a' thorough family remedy, la 6d and 2s 6d. -.

The ten plagues of a newspaper-office : Bores, poets, cranki, rats, cockroaches, typographical -errors, exchanges fiends, book oanvasaers, delinquent subscribers and the man who always knows how to run a paperbetter than the editor. For some time past curious rumors have been afloat in connection with a leading business firm in Wellington, and it is known that the police are shadowing at least one party to a defalcation, variously estimated at from .230,000 to 235,000. A big colonial fiinancial institution is said to be involved. An arrest may take place any day. One of the parties to the transaction is said to be on his "way to England.—H.B. Herald’s Wellington correspondent. Since the outbreak of war, a number of papers have joined the Press Association, over 2600 having been received as entrance money during the last few days. Some changes in the tariff of charges are contemplated by the Telegraph Department ,in the direction of an increase.* The exceptionally, low rate charged in Hew Zealand (the lowest rate in the world) has led to very heavy work for the department in connection with press telegrams.

It may be of interest t® careful housewives to know that the price of bread has advanced another |d. This makes the 21b loaf Bd,

Mr F. J. Marshall is ever to the fore in securing first class blood stock for settlers in the Morrinsville and surrounding districts. This season Mr Marshall has purchased the thoroughbred entire Leolautis from Mr L. D. Nathan. He is a half-brother to St. Leger, champion sire of New Zealand, and himself show ring horse of Auckland.