LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2128, 14 July 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the lateness of the hour at which we received the report of the Borough Council and the pressure on oar space, we are reluctantly compelled to hold over our report till next issue.

Mr W. S. Allen writes asking us t® make a correction in our reprint report of his address at Pitt Street on ‘ Twenty Years in the House of Commons.’ Mr Allen writes:— What I said was. that * I considered Mr Gladstone, Disraeli, and Mr Parnell were the three ablest men I met with in the House of Commons.” I did not say that Mr Parnell was one of the three leading British statesmen. Mr Parnell was a man of trans-cendent ability, bub owing to circumstances, he never attained to the position of a great British statesman,

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, kee]ps 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, The following excellent advice is from the current number of our Wairoa Contemporary We would again call the atten« tion of our readers to the necessity of their examining the list of the names of those who have been struck off the Electoral Rolls. The list is a long one and contains the names of several persons still resident in this district, and who are entitled to votes if they will only take the trouble to again send in their claims for enrolment. There are also other persons whose claims have never yet been registered all of whom should at once enroll. By application at the PostofHees forms of enrolment can b i obtained; the filling in is only the matter of a few moments> and the claims, may be posted without a stamp. There is thus really no reason why anvone should not become a voter at next election, and our duty to our country and to our district demands that every intelligent individual shall exercise his or her voice in the choice of a representative.

To the Deaf and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles I/r Nicholson of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just issued the lOOtb 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 book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell also ■ —Advt

The ‘ Spectator ’ makes a severe onslaught on Lord Rosebery. The wrath of our conn temporary has been aroused by the mere suggestion—it is nothing more—that the ex Premier is about to be hoisted into the political saddle once again, and to he re - placed by the wire pullers in his old position of Leader of the Liberals. For instance the ‘ Spectator ’ says : —‘Lord Rosebery is not a leader of men. lie w-bs cast for .the part of a great wire puller and maker of • platforms ’apolitical* boss ’not a political king. Of course the party will submit now as it did last.time, if the wirepullers put Lord Rosebery once more into the saddle but now, as last time. Lord Rosebery will soon rob the party of all its vigor and self confidence. A mtn who once had so splendid a chance, and who. threw it away with so poor a display of spirit, is not the man to restore the fortunes of the Liberal party. If whenJLord Rosebery was Prime Minister he had turned Sir William Harcourt out cf his Cabinet neck and crop for disloyalty, gone straight and steadily for the House of Lords, and dissolved the moment his Compensation Bill was rejected he would have been beaten, no doubt; but the country would have said ‘ at any rate; the party have got a man at last ’ As it is, the country, which as a whole seldom blunders, has, unless we are much mistaken, registered in Lord Rosebery’s •Dossier’ the fatal words :■*—Delightful man—me m 3 well —always flinches at the critical moment,’ This is not the man to lead the Liberal Party.

With apologies to Wilson Barrett: — 1 Something is out of Order with thee, Marc as 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.

The Warden’s Court will sit to-morrow at the usual hour. Mr Mills, will figure in history as the first mayor of Te Aroha. —Goldfields Advocate. Mr H Taperell, who was appointed editor !to the (N.Z. Times) at the beginning of the year, has resigned his position. The Chief Justice’s opinion on • hearsay evidence,’given expression to in the Supreme Court at Wellington ( says the Post) —You shouldn’t say you know a thing because you heard it. I hear a great many i things, but I don’t know them. In fact he i : drily added, ‘I often know to the contrary.’ ' It is said that Mr Geo. Purchas has left ; for Coolgardie. Probably the statement is i ! prematura. A large number of New Zea- ( j landers however, are daily leaving for the West where developments have reached a * stago that plainly points to Westralia as a l field that will outshine the Klondyke. * Mr John Arnaboldi, of Newmarket, whose ■ ! invention *®f a method of safely firing [ j dynamite by means of gunpowder we referred to lately, has opened up negotiaP j tioDS with the United States Government, C '• through the American Consul here, offer* > mg his discove yto that nation. Parti* L cular3 of the invention were sent by t j Saturday’s mail to the United States , Government, through the Consul, Mr | Dillingham. j | “A Few Remarks on Single Tax,” 5 : by W. S. Allen, on sale nt the News , i Office. Price Id. "1‘ A public meeting is to be held -.to-night at 7 o’clock in the Te Aroha ) West school-house, with a view to dis- ? cuss the question of the proposed re--1 moval of £he school. 3 3 } The young lady who met with an r accident on Tuesday night while tryl ing to avoid a couple of drunken 3 wayfarers who apparently desired to i monopolise the foothpath in the i neighbourhood of Harrison’s corner, is .: rapidly recovering from the effects of her fall . .

Wc, regret to learn that Mr Jones, late of Waihou, where he carried on business as a blacksmith, still lies in • a dangerous condition at his residence in Te Aroha. Everything' that is ; possible is being done to alleviate thß ; sufferings of the sick man—and' at present, we are sorry to leara, he is iin considerable pain, owing to the • turn his disease has taken. j An agent from Mr P. Bock, W ellington, called on us the other day with what he describe 1 as 1-e'ngan infallible cure for toothache. From the agent’s statement we gathered that this specific has the effect of stopping acute pain almost immediately, and'effects a permanent curb in many cases where ; the teeth are hollow. It seems a ' genuine remedy, and is, at any rate, j worth trying. On sale at the News stationary department. Price, Is.