Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2110, 14 June 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Judge Johnson has been confined to the house for the past few days through an attack of pleurisy, and the native land court has consequently boen postponed for a few days.. A meeting |in connection with the r oposed Ohiaemuri Hospital will he bald on June 17th, at Waihi.

According ly the forecasts we may be vkited by a gale to-day. Recently tenders were, called in England for the construction of 10 locomotives for the New Zealand Government- The lowest tender received was £2050 each c.i.f., and it was intimated that, at the price, the engines could hot be forwarded for 13 or 15 months. The Government then invited offers from Baldwin, the American maker, who offered to supply the engines in three months for £1675 each c.ii.f. As it was absolutely necessary to have the engines for next -season, the Government decided .to "get five from the American firm. The Rev Richard Johnston, the first Church of England clergyman in Australia, arrived in the “ First Fleet" in 1788, and the first temporary church was opened in Sydney, August 25, 1733. The Rev Mr the' first Congregational minister, arrived in 1798; the Rev Samuel Leigh, the first Wesleyan minister,'August 15, 1815; and the Rev John Dunmore Lang, D.D., the first Presbyterian minister, arrived in Sydney on May 8, 1823. Presbyterian services were held by an elder as early as 1802* and the first church was erected in 1809. The first authorised Roman'Catholie service was conducted by the Rev James Dixon, May 15, 1803. * The remains of <the late Mrs McKenzie, of Waioi® igomai, whichjwere brought up-irom Auckland on Saturday, were .consigned to their last resting place at the Te Aroha West Cemetery, after the arrival of the train that afternoon, in the presence of a large number of Borrowing relatione and friends. The coffin was covered with flowers. The Rev Mr WaH officiated. The funeral cortege wao a very large op®. Owing to the continued demand by collectors of 2£d stamps, in which the name * Wakatipu ’ is misspelt ‘ Wakitipu/ a further supply of 50,000 is now on its way to the colony. The following changes in other stamps are also to be made as soon as practicable. 'The design at present in use for the Id stamp (LakeTaupo) will be used for the 4d, and the present 4d design (WS&ite Terraoe) for the Id, This was the original intention, but in some way the designs were confused in London. The new 4d stamp will be printed in the brown and blue tints, which have been so much admired in the present Id stamp, but the opportunity will be taken to transpose the colours of the hew Id and 9d, as being more suitable for the representations of the White and Pink Terraces. Further supplies of all stampshave been ordered to be printed on watermarked paper. The present Id design ha» to be printed in two colours, and is too expensive for stamps which are used is such large numbers.

The hypocrisy displayed throughout New Zealand in connection, with gambling is not only repulsive, but is worthy of note from another aspect ( says the Napier Telegraph). It is a standing marvel that such transparent pretence does hot make thh majority of lie ill; " No perfectly sane mau can defend what is almost daily tranapir- ; ing before our eyes. Oh the one hand wO find men haled before a Magistrate for the crime of gambling, and sent to gaol with hard labor for betting on horse races, while on the other hand we see the Legislature providing a section of the community with special licences to publicly indulge in such betting, ana taking a share of the profits accruing. The whole miserable ousinesa“ie a disgrace to us. Gambling is undoubtedly an evil, It is probable the correct thing to argue that it ought to be an offence against the law, and as such, suppressed. But if that be so all gambling, thould be suppressed.

The secretary (Mr G. Sherlock) of the Te Aroha Brass Baad informs os that they propose holing a concert in aid of the uniform Fund, on Thursday, the last day of June: Much interest is being manifested in tlie approaching performance for the benefit of tho Te Aroha Literary Society on Thursday evening next when the vicar (Rev E. J. McFarland) will occupy the chair. A. splendid programme has been arranged, and we understand the tickets are selling well. We Jhjave to call attention to Mr Fred Lawn’s advertlsemehtTia another column.

In an article in the Humanitarian a writer advocates that people ought t» be allowed to - die when life is ajtorture. He says that a friend of his, who was dying from cancer in the face, suffered such agonies that anaesthetics bad continually administered, yet she was aroused from insensibility every half hour, day and night, in order to have nourishment or. stimulants forcibly administered. Publicity should be given to all such cases, jAd /- r a.extinction of life, sh§>ul|l obl|M9 a • lethal chamber provided by ‘Government, and attended, to by officials to whom even at the laaimomenfc the patient could .appeal. j

Mr Ernest Pavitt left Te Aroha yesterday for Auckland, en route, via the colony of Tasmania and Sydney, for British North Borneo, where he bolds an important appointment under Government. Mr Pavitt has enjoyed m/iny agreeable excursions in this and other colonies during his furlough picking up strength wonderfully after his .recent severe illness. He looked the picture of health when we saw him in Auckland the other day, aud learnt with pleasure of his approaching marriage to a lady in that land of pretty girls—Tasmania. His brother, Mr Frank Payitt, we understand, joins /him, at the end ef the month at Sydney ■ Father G inatv concluded a successful mission at St. Joseph’s Church, Te Aroha, on Sunday morning in the presence of a crowded congregation. If the mantle of St. Ignatiu.eLoyo2a' has not descended upoh the reverend father he possesses much of the fierce

proselytising spirit of that great mis siouer. No One can deny Father Ginaty’s uncompromising thoroughness. There are no half-measures in

the doctrines he meets out. We cannot doubt but that he has, during his brief visit to Te Aroha, done much to

elevate the tone in the congregation of St Joseph’s by his fervent appeals to them to steadfastly maintain in its

early purify the faith of: their fathers. v A correspondent writes-‘I think the r 'Atte®tion’df the Domain Board should be called to the habit many are

acquiring of crossing the lawn to the new bath-house instead of following the foot-paths. A light ornamental iron - railin g protectin g the eastern border of the lawn, painted, say white, would form an elegant and effective barrier to further encroachments in this direction. Another improvement, I would venture to suggest, namely, a supply of hot sheets for invalids leaving the baths, such being calculated to induce the profuse.perspiration so beneficial in all cases of rheumatism. The best results are obtained by wrapping up warmly after, leaving the baths and reclining for an hour on a comfortable couch cooling off. The more ample the provision made for the Comfort of that usually most querulous class of ... invalids, the rheumatic patient, the more popular will the Te Aroha Sanatoriam become. In connection with providing the same no charge of extra vageaoe could ever be made.