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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2128, 16 July 1898, Page 2

Elsewhere appears an avertisement inviting applications for the position of town clerk, :163 those of inspector of nuisances and do;r registrar. . Attention is called to the da e upon which applications are returnable. A full meeting of the Council was held last night at which the late Clerk tendered his resignation, and Mr W Hill was re« qu< s ed to act pending a permanent ap point amt, b ing mad -, app i -atio: s ha via *■ Le in called as will be seen from an advert -Is imant in an&thor column. Other important business was transacted, a full ret' i'-'- of which will appear in our next iss We understand young Whitten was hurt on Thursday afternoon while playing for Te Aroha juniors against a Paeroa team. The extent of his injuries is not knownAn r riteresting fan turn of the labor report is that \uokland toes the list as rega -ds the number of factories and hands emp’ov’d with 09 and 758 respectively. The others are : Wellington factories, 69. hands 468 ; Christ church, 42 factories, 312 hands ; Dunedin, 26 factories 350 hands. 1

As the Burgess Roll to* about to be amended, all those desirous of having their names placed thereon should send in their applications at once

The services at the Wesleyan Church tomoi’row will he conducted by the Rev John Hosking D. D. of Hamilton, in the morning and by Mr W. S. Allen M. A. in the evening. In anothe r column appears a notice inserted by, Mr, C., A. Cornea* in which be states his irresponsibility for debts contracted otherwise than under his written authority. The Congregation of a church at Clyde ( Otago ) were scandalised the other Sun-

day to see two young men busily engaged in a game of cards in one of the pews while the service was proceeding. The names of the culprits were noted, and steps are to be taken to prevent a repetition of the un» seemly conduct. 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 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. Two promising lads, aged 16 and 12, sons of Mr Thomas McDonald, manager of Cori'idale Estate, were drowned the other day in a waterhole on the Wairaka Creek which flows close to the house. The lads were out in a flat-bottomed boat pulling about, when the boat capsized. The day was exceptionally cold, and before long both boys sank in about 20it of water. The disaster was witnessed by two young ladies, whose cries brought assistance in about ten minutes, but the water was dirty audit was impossible to do anything in the way of a rescue. The bodies remained in the water three hours, grappling irons having to be sent from Ngapara. It was supposed that the coldness of the water paralysed the efforts of the lads to save themselves, as both could swim. The Slander of Women Bill, introduced in the - Council by Mr Downie Stewart, allows wopen and girls to whom unchastity has been imputed to bring an action without being compelled to prove special dams age. ■ Mr Stewart introduced the bill in 1879, but failed to carry it. Since then a measure on similar lines has been passed in England and Victoria.

The Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette is responsible foi the statement that there must now be some thousands of uncertificated bankrupts throughout the colony. In meat of (it is alleged) the bankrupts are ignorant of the procedme to obtain their discharge, and are unable or unwilling to pay the fees forlegal assistance. The suggestion is made that, the Government should pass a bill discharging all men or women who have beep bankrupt for three years, on the ground theft it was the original intention.of the bankruptcy laws to grant relief to insolvent debtors.

Let.the croaker croak, and the hard t me 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,

Mr F. E. Griffith, nephew of the Rev S. Griffith left Te Aroha yesterday en route for London ; and will sail for Sydney on Monday to catch the P. O- O. Boat • India’

leaving Sydney on the 80th inst. Many friends join in wishing the traveller • Bon Voyage.’ ~ A young man, who recently consented to the issue of an order requiring him to con-

tribute to his father’s maintenance,' was summoned to appear at the Magistrate’s Court at Nelson the other day on a charge of neglecting to comply therewith, . The defendant did not appear, butas the amount in arrears had been'paid since the issue of the summons, the charge was dismissed. The complainant stated that his son had boosted that he would give the same trouble every time a payment became due. and that he had said ‘ Law is cheap and does not cost anything.’ ‘He may find that it may cost him something in incarceration,’ re* marked Mr Robinson, S.M. The Magistrate pointed out that he had the power to imprison a person for six months for such an offence, and he said that no doubt someone in the Court would let the young man know the risk he was running of getting into 1 trouble himself by putting other people to needless trouble in this way.

Passing Mr Jack Rowe’s well-known butcher’s shop, opposite Smardon’B Hotel, it is impossible not to be struck by the splendid display of prime beef and mutton 1 he is making every Saturday. A characteristic of Mr Rowe’s moat is its uniform quality, and we have the wpi’d of a regular customer of his that his sausages are A 1, so we thiuk this a fitting opportunity to introduce a pleasing little anecdote bearing on the subject. A party of ladies and gentlemen visiting Te Aroha lately had occasion at luncheon at the residence of a well known Te Aroha parson to remark on the excellence of the sausages provided for their entertainment, and questioned their host as to their authorship. ‘Mr John

Rowe.’ replied he, * the well-known upper Whitaker Street butcher.’ Thereupon nothing would satisfy the party in question but that the driver of their bnggv should call a halt at Rowe’s-and so enable them to lay in a stock of sausage for their far away home. (Fact). Although only a short time amongst us Mr John Jones, sometime blacksmith at Waihou, was a tolerably familiar figure to many in Te Aroha. Born in Bathurst, N.S.W, 49 years ago he had been 17 years in this colony. Coming to the- North Island from Timaru, 14 years ago, he served as blacksmith at Murray’s, now Annandale. Later he started a black*, smith’s shop at Waihou, where he did a good business until 5 or 6 years ago when he sold out to the Buchans. Ortce while ‘crossing the bridge deceased met with a nasty accident, He seems to have caught his foot between the rails and stumbed, being a big heavy man his fall was a severe •one. In fact ,he never got over it. It aged

him rapidly and laid the foundation of the disease that led to his‘death after a severe illness of three weeks. Deceased, who died yesterday morning, leaves a widow and no family. The funeral will leave his late residence to-day at 230 for the Te \roha West Cemetery. Tn a recent ‘ Breach of Promise/ case the defendant obtained a verdict because he ' roved t iafc the girl had always a cold in her * dose,’ as she expressed it. Thus were two souls with but. a single kerchief, two hearts that beat as one, parted for ever, jnsb 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 !