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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2105, 19 May 1898, Page 2

Mr Perham, who has been requested by Mr Oadman to report on the Te Aroha water-supply and electric light ing schemes, arrived here on Tuesday night.

Lord Rosebery has visited Mr Gladstone at Hawardea to bid him fare well.

• r 'Th® total cetfc ef the expedition to Waima, in connection with c m Native disturbance there, will run into dose on £2OOO.

We are pleased to see that Mr May, of the '‘Economic,” has found it necessary to enlarge and improve his premises to make room for the increasing business, and to accommodate his comprehensive stock. Money i& evidently cheapening, for id a recent issue of the * .North Otago Times ’ it was notified that the unpaid balance of the purchase money of a property, to be sold* by auction, could remain at 3 per cent interest • u Messrs McNicol and Co have received instructions from Dr Percival (who is leaving the district) to sell at hia residence, Cambridge, on Wednes-day,-June l&V the whole of his household furnitnre, etc.

Ambpg those who perished in the great snowslide on the road to Klonr dyke, reported in the cables recently, was W E. D. Wood, of New Zealand. To Aroha West subscriber I We have the utmost respect for the rights of the minority. To© much respect in fact, as in our tenderness for such we are sometimes tempted t© disregard the imperious demands of the majority To enlarge in a leader on the subject you mention would be invidious. What we have to look at in this case at any rate, is ‘the greatest good of the greatest number/ Individual cases of hardship and inconvenience may occur—we do not doubt will occur as you state ; but while the sufferers have our sympathy, we cannot spare space in our columns to condole with themThe Popt OSes will be dosed! ©n Tuesday the 24th May—Her Majesty's Birthday— Mailo usually despatched Tuesday will close st 7 p. m. Monday 23rd. - Onp of the Government valuers at Mosgiel showed remarkable facility in getting out of a tight place daring the sitting of the Assessment Court at that place the other day. Whoa questioned with regard: to the value of certain land he exp. ained that in his opion it should produce 60-bushels of wheat to the acre, but on being confronted ivith counsel’s statement that not more than 20 bushels could be {irocurcd, he retorted, amid roars of aughter, that the remaining 40 bushels had by sparrows. The Society for prevention of Crueltyto Animals at Christchurch, iB insisting upon the tying of calves’ legs being done away with, as the animals are being removed from the Addington yards in the butchers' carts. The ether day one lot of calves was being taken away with their legs tied, but the inspector for the society had them brought back and their legs released. The vagaries of rats are of a truly wonderful character; they are most cunning in their methods of getting at anything eatable, and sometimes they appear to do things in a spirit of pure ‘cussedness/ A" peculiar instance of the latter propensity occurred at Mr Thos. Wells’ store at Cambridge last week. A quantity of new clothing from the Kaiapoi factory had been put upon the shelves in the shop, but it evidently did not meet with the approval of the rats, for they somehow got on to the shelf that held the waistcoats and gnawed the bone buttons off them. They then amused themselves by chewing the aforesaid buttons into small bits, in fact made bone dust of them. It is evident the rodents do not think Mr Wells progressive enough and have given him a gentle hint to add a bone mill to his multitudinous j undertakings.—Argus,