Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2127, 12 July 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL

We understand that the firft meeting of the TevAroha Borough Council will- be held to-morrow night at the Borough offices m the Domain.

Our readers attention is called to Mr Sydney Francis s advertisement in another column, from which it wil} be seen that he is shortly tcr'visit Te Aroha with a§ view of introrlncmg a novelty in the shape of a high-class phonograph.- •-••• At Messrs McNicol and Co.’s Ohaupo sale on the 19th inst.,:‘ they will offer 80 choice four-year-old bulloelcs, fromMr J. W. Ellis, Puketiti. The cattle from that country always command a ready sale, and as .the above lot have been .eight weeks on turnips and are very forward, there should be little difficulty in disposing of them. Mr W. Hobbs, dentist, will be in Te Aroha to-morrow. With apologies to Wilson Barrett:— ‘ Something is out of order with thee, Marcus 1 Is it the heart or a heavy cold ? If the former send for the woman ; if the latter, send for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure! One of the greatest discoveries of the age—not the woman, but the cure. It never fails, a woman may. This is a pearl of a fact cast before sensible people. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly profit thereby. Sold everywhere. A story comes from New Haven about a black spaniel that abstracted a featherduster from his owner’s house, and while playing with it tore out all the feathers.. The dog, after being shown the featherless handle was givehTa whipping. He then disappeared, and about, (in hour afterw rd walked bravely into the house with a brand new duster in his meutbi He walked up to his mistress and meekly deposited the new brush at her feet.. By the mark on it she saw that the dog had stolen it from a neighboring store.—Our Dumb Animals, I

The Wairoa Guardian has, we arg glad to see, risen from its ashes, apd though it makes its appearance restricted to a single sheet, the proprietor announces that a _ new printing plppt Trill shortly be erected. Transparent adhesive tape for repairing books, music etc., 4d per reel at Te Aroha News DepartmentAdvt.

On Thursday night the postponed concert on behalf ®f the Te Aroha Brass Band concert will take place. A splendid array of talent has been got together for this occasion. In our next issue we hope to be able to give a more extended notice of the programme. Attention is called to the letters of thanks appearing from the various candidates at the boroiigh election on Saturday last. - : We would specially direct the attention of our readers to the number of replace advertisements appearing in this issue.

It was stated some time ago that a de&j» nig Oolonial politician had, in a fit of temper thrown a pickle bottle at a political opponent. Tho real facts were, that the Baid political opponent was so hoarse that he could hardly rpeak, 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 tl 'All chemists sell it Uls-fM and 2s 61

The volunteering movement is still agitating the minds of the young men of the Waikato. . Meetings have been held in various parts of the district, and we understand that branch companies of the Waikato Mounted Infantry are about to ba formed in iKihikihi and Waihou. If this is correct, and we have every reason to believe that it isj the number of men in the troop will be considerably in creased by a set of men who possess i 1 the essentials that go to make good volun'ews. * Oapt. Reid expects ere long to be able to muster quite 250 men.—Argus.

Mr W. S. Allen gave an interesting address last Thursday night at the meeting of the Pitt-street Wesleyan Literary and Debating Society. The Rev W. J. Williams presided and' there was a good attendance. In an easy conversational style Mr Allen gave reminiscences' of his 22 years’ connection with the British House of Commons, and'shorfijeharacter sketches of the leading giv - ing the first-position to; tho Hon W. E. Gladstone, second ~fi> Mr Disraeli and the third to Mr-Parnell. The l.exstur>e}was^|isteneddif/with great in-terest,-and at itse&se Mr Allen was Recorded a very deserved vote of thanks.

Mr William Jllark, driver at Galing that he wished to contradict an f impression which had got abroad through the medium ef a paragraph in he Auckland ‘ Herald,’ of the 9th inst., to the effect that while driving a buggy to Paeroa on Thursday night last, the vehicle containing a passenger was’capsized. Mr Clark asks ns to contradict the statement made by the Herald, as no capsize took place. Tn a recent' Breach of Promise ’ case tho defendant obtained a verdict because he proved that the girl had always a cold in her ‘ dose,’ as sherexpressed it.' Thus were -two souls with but. a .siagle pocketbandf kerchiefv two hearts that beat as one, parted fpr <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 !

The following is an extract from Mr Chamberlain’s famous Birmingham speech. *. What is our next duty ? It is to 9 .tablish and to maintain bonds of permanent amity with our kinsmen across the 'Atlantic. ’ ( Bond”cheers.) They are a powerful and a generous nation. They speak our language’ are bred of our race. ( Loud cheers.) Their laws, their literature, thejrgtandpuint upon every qu -stion are the’ same as ours; their feeling, their interest, in the causa f. humanity and the peaceful development of the world are identical with ours. (cheer.’, Ido not know what.the future has in store for us. I do not know what arrangements may be.pos3ible with us bur this I knofc and feel that the closer the more cordiab ithe fuller, and tho more definite these . arrangements are, with the consent of both peoples, the better it will be for both and for the world. (Loud cheers.) And T even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and nable cause ih) Stars and Stripes and the Unioxi ; ; Jack should wave together (loud arid prolonged cheers ) ever an Anglo Saxon alli--1 ance. Now, it is one of the most satisfactory results of Lord Salisbury’s policy ( cheers ). that at Me present time these two great nations understand ouch other better than they have ever dene since more than a century ago. ( Hear, hear.) They weie separated by the blunder of the British Government.’

In Geneva a novel system for delivering letters in high apartment houses is to bo tried ‘ says the Scientific American.’ Ou the ground floor is'arranged a cabinet having as many compartments arid boxes as there are floors in the home. When a letter is deposited in any box it makes a contact which rings a bell on the corresponding floor. The bell can only be stopped by the removal of the letter. The same cur* rent that rings the bell opens a valve connected with a water tank on the top of the house. Here are located cylinders attached by cords and pulleys to tho letter boxes, and so arranged that when they are filled with water they will serve to haul up the letter box and its contents to the proper floor. When the box arrives the letter is automatically dumped into a stationery receptacle, and, at the same time the cylinder is discharged of its water. The letter box then descends to the lower floor, the bell stops ringing, and.it remains in position waiting for the next visit of the postman.'" ' ' ' ’ • 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,