LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2133, 19 July 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waitoa live stock sale on Friday next. •

The da'es of Mr Wn. Hobbs’ visits to To Aroha during the present quarter will be found advertised in this issue.

The School Committee met last night when a good deal of business was transacted. Our report is necessarily held over.

Transparent adhesive tape for repairing books, music, etc., 4d per reel at Te Aroha News Departments— Advt.

The display of acetylene gas at Messrs Mclndoe and Hill’s on Saturday night gave great satisfaction and was generally admired. The first competition for the ‘Linnett Illumination ’ will be fired on ground adjacent to the local range on Thursday afternoon next. A great deal of interest is being taken in this event and as the conditions under which the tmphy is to be fired for are of a somewhat novel character, doubtless many will take part.

An agent from Mr P. Bock, Wellington, called on us the other day wifh what he described as being an 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 cure in many cases' where the teeth are hollow. It seems a genuine remedy, and is, at any rate, worth trying. On sale at the News stationary department. Price, Is.

To the Dea.e and those troubled with Noises iu the Head or other Aural Troubles Dr Nicholson of London, the world famed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just iesued the 100th edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles This book may be had from Mr Colin Camp, bell, 100, Adelaide Jioad,, 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 in Zealand. A little book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell aiso ie “-A.lvt

Sir Francis Dillon Bell died at Shag Valley on Friday afternoon. There are 2430 lunatics in IT. Z., exclusive of those persons who bought Bunkers Hil s at £l. —Gazette. Hague Smith and Co Paeroa have a splendid assortment of gas fittings on display. We understand that Col Banks and Capt Reid Will visit Pirongia ©n Thursday and Cambridge on Friday next. The purs pose of the visit will be to inspect th i volunteers for the proposed new corps in these districts. Already over fifty names have been handed in of those willing to join in the former place and Cambridge, round which there is undoubtedly a large number of the right sort of men, should have no difficulty in exceedig this number. The death is announced from Sydney of a lady well known to old Aucklanders in the person of Mrs Naughton, relict of the, late Mr Jas. Naughton, for many years local Commissioner of Police, and subsequently Resident Magistrate at Onehnnga Deceased had attained the advanced age of 81. Mr ffm Naughton, an old Grammar School boy, and son of deceased, is engaged in journalism in San Francisco. In consequence of a telegram from Mr Herries, M.H.R., the Secretary of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club, Mr Hulme, haß wired to'the Secretary of the Racing Conference flow sitting at Wellington applying for this club to be placed on the list of those entitled to a totalisator permit.

On Thursday next, 21 July,. Messrs M ■ Nicol and Co will hold a large clearing, sale of live stock jjand farming implements ,the property of Mrs John Hunt, at ■•Evers ley, Walton, commencing at 12.n00n sharp Full particulars will be found in thei r column.';

At the farewell given to Mr J. Bryers, at Waikino, he was presented with a violin and a pair of opera glasses. The gathering was a very enjoyable one. Mr Bryers is succeeded at Montgomery & Co’s, by Mr E. O. Nash. —Gazette,

Mr S. P. E. Francis, the representative of the American Phonograph Company, who is introducing .a novelty in the shape of a parlour phonograph, at the modest sum of. £5 left for Paeroa yesterday. We have had the pleasure of listening to several choice selections, which were beautifully rendered, and there is no doubt the instrument is marvellously cheap at the money. The friends of Mrs Joues desire to tender her warmest thanks to all those who have in so manv ways shewn their sympathy with her during her husband’s late illness, and since his death The treasurer of the fund (Mr McFarland) desires to make the following statement: —Receipts : Collected by Mr Hartneady, .£2 7s ; Mr Hickson, £1 7s 6d; Rev McFarland, 13s; total, JB4 7s 6d. Expenditure : Sick attendance, 10s; groceries, etc, 8s ; funeral, grave digging, and waggonette, .£3; in hand, 9s 6d—<£4 7s 6d. It should be mentioned that Dr Smith gave his set vices gratuitously. On Thursday night the Anglican Church bell rang, a wild peal to the night winds: We learnt afterwards that it was a summons to a meeting of the Christian Endeavour Society ; but it broke upon our seclusion with unaccustomed sound. And, we calmly,as our premises were not on fire, concluded it was an alarm bell. We were however, undeceived before the last lingering cadences died away and the dismal main street had resumed it’s normal quietude; but the episode suggested a question which we think too long has lain in abeyance. When the Hot Springs Hotel was laid in ashes in one act we were, for once n a way, unanimous in our demand for a public fire-bell. To our plaintive request for information on the subject no answer was vouchsafed. The question w j are told was dealt With; by the Town Board, inef> fectually however, and then allowed to d op. It has never been resurrected; but we are ghoully-minded enough to wish it were. No community and no buildi g, however splendid its isolation, is immune from the attacks of the fire-fiend. A local hotel-keeper knows that to his disadvanty age, and if a fire breaks out at the upper end of Whitaker-street a score of flourishing stores will be blotted out of existence as completely as the Spanish torpedo beats were in Santiago harbour by the quick firing Yankee guns. His has an expressive face, a face of the vegetable marrow type ; a mouth, well it might have been cut with a hay spade, and such a voice, something between a leaky ci tern and a foghorn, but he had sense and eighteen pence. He says to the storekeeper now, have you got a bottle of Woods l Great P ppermint Cure for coughs and colds: nothing else will do for me ; it beats hos*

The Auckland local preachers (of which Mr 0. F. Spooner is one) were to hold a meeting last night, to consider what steps shall be taken in regard to his case, which has excited so much public interest.

A young man named Edward Cock son of Mr F. Cock, N.S.S. Coy’s agent met with a very painful accident last Wednesday afternoou. The young man, who has been employed by Mr Ellis as a blacksmith for some years past, was engaged in ‘drawing’ a piece of steel when the tongs broke and the steel flew up and hit him above the eye, inflicting a nasty gash. The sufferer, immediately went to see Dr Backby, who found it necessary to put five stitches in the wound. Had the steel hit the young man about an inch lower down he would in all probability have lost the sight of his eye. Fortunately, however, he will be at his work again in the course of a week.

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Mark’s Church will be held in the Church this evening for the purpose of passing the accounts for the year ended 30th June last, and of electing church officers. During the year the congregations have been large and the offertories good, and the interest shown in the church considerable, and we hope that at this meeting there will be a good attendance. It is is to be hoped also that the ladies of the congregation will ,be present to show their interest in this, ns in other parts of the church’s work.

With apologies to Wilson Barrett: ‘ S miething is out of order with thee, Marcus ! Is it the heart or a heavy cold ? If the former send for the woman ; if the latter, scud for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure ! One of the greatest discoveries of the -T.j — not the woman, but the cure. It never fails, a woman may. This is a pearl < f a fact cast before sensible people. Bead, mark, lewu, and inwardly profit thereby. Sold every where.