LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2123, 2 July 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rev J. W. Burton of Paeroa will preach at the Wesleyau Church tomorrow eveuing.

Mr J. P. McAlister, of the wellknown firm Tole and McAlister, after an exhibition of eccentric conduct, disappeared from the steamer Waiotahi on Wednesday evening while she was en voyage. -

The Yicars of Te Aroha and Paeroa are exchanging pulpits to-morrow, the Rev W. H. Wilson preaching at 3t. Mark’s nr raiug and evening.

On Thnrs lay night the town was visited by a violent gale from the north-east, - -but no damage is reported so far .as haying been done.

• A touch of nature was witnessed in a Nelson street the other day. - One of the Te Aute Mabries met a Nelson Maori'girl, and they were about to greet each other in the usual mode by * rubbing noses-’. But they remembered just in time that they were ‘ civilised,’ and didn’t do that sort of thing now, so they merely shook hands in the most common-place manner possible. But they obviously missed the pleasant sensation of nose-rubbing. . ■ *#-

Poets have sweetly sung, aye, many a time, Tbe varying moods of the Australian clime. But these same moods, although the poet thrills, Threaten poor mortals with those sudden

chills, / .. ■ For which the remedy, as certain jib it’s pare,.. Is W. VVoods’ Great Pepp jrmint Cure, v

Dread tidings have reached this country (writes the London ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ ) to the effect that the too ingenious and enterprising Germans are taking steps to add a new and appalling torment to the terrors of bicycling, already more than sufficiently numerous and deplorable. A Hamburg manufacturing firm, as we are credibly informed has patented a musical bicycle, contrived in such sort that it plays popular airs while the machine is in motion, quite independently of any impulsive agency on the part of the rider. This latest appliance of misdirected motive force has received the special designation of ‘ The Troubadour,’ and is credited by its fiendish inventor with the possession of|instrumental resources the full development of which will be awaited with fear and trembling by civilised mankind.

Our Sydney correspondent writes.— According to a couple of breach of promise casss recently decided, £SO and costs is accepted as the correct penalty to be paid by a bridegroom who refuses to come to the scratch after having plighted his troth. Age is not an element ef the contract, apparently. In one instance a giddy young spark of 66 was called upon to pay the magic JBS>O to a young damsel of consider* ably less than half his years, and in another a gentleman who had allowed his young affectious to become entangled at the comparatively early age of 18, was called® upon to pay a similar sum* Parents with boys at school will now experience a nowexperi* ence a new anxiety. Besides the ordinary and accepted methods by which boys show they are boys, they may occupy themselves in their spare time by getting engaged to be married. Which threatens to be a more expensive pastime than any of the rest.

As many accidents occur from «ases of supposed missed fired charges, it will be as well if miners are made acquainted with the law on the subject. In Part VI of ' The Mining Act, 1891.’ ‘ Regulation for working of Mines,’ danse (h), subsection (2), section 323, is as follows : ‘ A charge which has missed fire may be drawn by a copper pricker, but shall not be visited ( until three hours have elapsed ) from the time of lighting the fuse of such charge; but in no case shall an iron or steel drill be used for the purpose ©f drilling or drawing out such charge i nor shall any charge be drawn where nitro-glycerine compounds have been used. This subsection shall not apply to charges fired by an electric current.’ Clause (i): ‘No person under the age of eighteen years shall be allowed to charge a hole with explosives, or to fire an v charge of explosives-’ Clause (j): *No drillhole shall be bored within a distance of 3ft, directly below or within Ift, in any other direction from the site of a previously exploded charge of any nitro-glyeorine compound, and no drill-hole shall be bored in any remaining portion of a hole in which a charge of nitro-g’ycerine compound has been previously exploded.’ 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,

To-night Mr James Mills will deliver an address to the ratepayers of Te Aroha on the subject of municipa l affairs. There will doubtless be a large attendance. ~/ V- • ' \ •'••• The Te Aroha and the local schoolhouses re : open on Monday.

Among the Justices of the Peace in the last Gazette we observe the name of Mr Thomas Mclndoe, of Te Aroha. XPor Coughs and Colds take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6

In another portion of this issue appears an invitation in the name of Mr Thomas Gavin to the ratepayers to meet him on Monday night at the Public HaU, when he will address thein on the subject of municipal affairs.

We are glad to be able to say that the improvement in Mrs Gotz’s condition, which took place during Wednesday night, continues, and that her present state is such that every hope is now entertained of her soon being convalescent.

From a return laid before the House it appears that since fche. Advances to Settlers’ Department was established the. loans have been distributed as follows : Auckland, L 271,830; Taranaki, £.198,515; Hawke’s Bay, £123,195 ; Wellington, £474,758 ; Marlborough, £60,485; Nelson, £30,320 ; Canter bury, £125,080; Westland, £16,585 ; Otago and Southland, £426,487. The Quarterly Meeting of the Upper Thames Wesleyan Circuit took place at the Wesleyan Church on Thursday evening last, Rev S. Griffith Superintendent, being in the chair. There was a full attendance of members and office-bearers and a large amount of business was transacted. We hope to give a fuller report in our next issue.

Tn a recent ‘ Breach of Promise * case the defendant obtained a verdict because he proved that the girl had always a cold in her ‘ dose,’ as she expressed it. Thus were two souls with but a single pockethandkerchief, two hearts that beat as one, parted for ever, just for the want of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, which is a certain remedy for all colds, coughs, or catarrhs. Tie a knot about this, somewhere!

In a review of * Die Goldfelder Australasians,’ by Karl Schmeisser, Royal Prussian Oberbergrath, Mr F Dan-vers-Puwer, F.G.S., writes in the Australian Mining Standard: “ The various kinds of rocks in which goldbearing reefs occur will astonish those whose knowledge in these matters is lim ted. Examples are given iqf de posits occurring in diorher diabase, felsite, quartz porphyry, granite, syen ite, andesite, porphyrite, rhyolite, mica, chloritic, seritic, talcose, and amphibolite schists, serpentine, slate, sandstone, and conglomerate.’

Yesterday afternoon the remains of Walter Deverell were consigned to , their last resting place at the Te Aroha West cemetery, in the presence of a large number of friends and three of his brothers; the Vicar (Rev E. J. McFarland) and the Rev Joseph Campbell officiating. Deceased, it* will be remembered, met with an accident at the Montezuma battery, but was generally supposed to be in a fair way towards recovery when death so suddenly overtook him. The immediate cause was syncope, consequent npoh internal hemmorhage. Mr Devey was the undertaker.

A certain amount of public interest ha 5 * been attached to the barquentinß Sydney Belie, a sketch of which as she app eared off the Auckland wharf appear’ in this week’s Graphic. The boat was chartered in Sydney by Miss Hastie, a lady from Scotland, with the object of making a lengthened cruise amongthe Pacitic islands. The expedition was to have been of a partly scientific character, and among the party accompanying Miss Hastie as her guests were a botanist, naturalist, meteorologist, and a photographer. The Sydney Belle was chartered by Miss Hastie in Sydney, and after visiting Wellington came on to Auckland, from which port it was intended she should have started on her tour last week. Owing, however, we understand to some disagreement between the owners and charterer as to the terms on which the vessel was let, the expedition has been temporarily abandoned.

At the close of thre special meeting of the Town Board last Wednesday night, the chairman, taking advantage of the presence of all the members, raised the question of the cutting of the willows on the lawn. He stated that he was considerably astonished on seeing to what extent the cutting had been done While he favored the idea of trimming the trees down, he was not prepared to see them made so bare. In his opinion there would be no shade from them by next season, and there would be sure to be a great outcry against#heir action.. Coin. Knock differed * from the views expressed by the chairman. He was quite certain the trees would have sprouted sufficiently before next season to give the necessary shelter. It was agreed, however, that the remaining trees should not be cut down quite so close. The subject was then dropped.

It was stated some time ago that a deal* mg Colonial politician bad, in a fit of temper tnrown a pickle bottle at a political opponent. The real facts were, that the said political opponent was so hoarse that he eould hardly epeak, and the L.C.P. kindly tossed him a bottle of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, a sure remedy for all colds, coughs, etc. Try it! Thousands swear by it 1 All chemists sell it! Is 6d and 2s 6d,

Reports on the Thames Law-level Water-race,- and domestic water-sup-plies for the mining townships of Coromandel, Karangahake, Waihi, Waitekauri, and Te Aroha (the last in combination with a scheme for the electric-lighting of the Domain and the new bath-houses), are now in 'J couise of preparation ( by Mr T. Perham, who was instructed by the Gnder-Secretary for Mines to visit Hauraki Goldfields ana report on these * projects. |

On Tuesday afternoon a drowning accident occurred at D|rgaville. It appears as the s. s. Wairoa was approaching the wharf, the second f Steward, Richard - Russell, aged 19, while drawing a bucket of water, overbalanced himself "and fell overboard. A lifebuoy was thrown to him, the steamer stopped, and a boat was launched, but just as the boat was within half-a-chain, Russell threw up his arms and sank. The body has not yet been recovered. His parents reside at Taupaki, on the Kaipara railway line. The Northern Union gteamship Company have a system throughout their service whereby all their hands are insured with the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company. , On Tuesday afternoon at the C.A. Rooms a number of sympathisers with Miss Ethel M, T. Baker, the heroine of | the. skin-grafting case, assembled in order to present Miss Baker with tokens of their high appreciation of her and Of sympathy with her for the manner in which she had been treated in connection with the Supreme Court Dr Purchas. Mr J. McK. Geddea presided. The address’prepared for presentation was read by Mr J. H. Mackie, the Secretary, the terms in which it was couched being highly appreciative of Miss Baker’s high character, and expressing deep sympathy with her .over the skin-grafting incident.

To the Deaf and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles Itv Nicholson of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just issued the 100th edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deafness and- Aural Troubles This book may be had from Mr Colin Camp, bell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z • Mr Campbell was cured of his deafness by Dr Nicholson’s system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist m Zealand. A little bodk on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell also —-Advt