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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2133, 23 July 1898, Page 2

A football match has been arranged between the Te A oha. apd Morrinsvxlle Clubs, to be played at the latter plac >' on Saturday next, .£ We have to call attention to a i advertisement from Mr Currie, of the poultry farm, Bayfield- in another colnmn.

The predicted heavy gale from the eastward has been blowing over Te Aroha for some 48 hours,; At midnight last, night s >mc pf the squalls were terrific, and the. water in the creek was rising rapidly/. .

. The secretary ef the 'TeAfoka Brass Band informs us that tile'gross receipts from the recent cohcert in aid of the uniform fund amounted to Llo 19*; expenses L 6 12s 81; hot receipts L 9 6s 4d. * i Mr J. Ivess, who ha* for some time pi t filled the editorial clair of the * Hauraki Tribune. ha« left; Paeroa for t.h** S mth. Mr ,L. has d the editorship ana control of the * Tribune.' > j . We had an opportunity of speaking to Mr Stewart on Thursday afternoon —Mr Stewart of the Railway Department —and that gentlem|u| somewhat surprised us by saying>|hat in all probability connection wgli|l .be made on'the .Te A fail way i n about three weeks time. J®ie grading is done, and the road-bed all ready for the reception of the rails, and as the distance is only a little oyey.four miles, outf readers will readily. )Ibef|ev© that we are s not seeking fo;| tax their w)ien we state thaf» before m*ny months are over trams will be running regularly between,, Te -Aroha and lang looked arid devoutly to bo wished for consumma.. tion. . , V _ .Aii fnterestiirig ciremony of a quasipublic character took place on Wednesday afternoon at the residence of #bi?*3W ,Jpßep||L > ..(Paiii^hdU[.y S |> < <^h@ > tip. ;'Gil|ert dSmith, lecturer tp the St. John% ; mmbiil&nce classes recently held in Te Aroha, to which Mrs. Campbell acted as secretary, presented eertificafc|s:, of proficiency to the successful- stridehts, rin behalf of Mrs Smith, who, we regret to learn, is still confined to her. room by an acute attack; of broiicmalv catarrh. The Secretary of the Auckland Centre, when enclosing the certificates, wrote, raying that the percent- go of successful candidates'at the Te Arohfr, examinav tion was much higher than is usual in country classes. Votes of thanks to Dr. Gilbert Smith for his lectures, to Mrs Smith for her kind assistance to the candidates, arid to Mrs Campbell for her i secretarial services ha ing been passed, a very pleasant meeting broke up.’ The following are the names of the successful candidates : -Mesdames Mm-sdon, McFarland. Ross, Hodgson, Mieses Pavitt, Gribble, Florrie Smith, and Mrs Ray, Final Pass.

.Jean Luie, the notorious witness in the Tichborne ease, is dead. The arrivals in the colony during June numbered 1043, and the departures 1305.

Mr and Mrs Colder have returned to Whatawhata after a month's absence on their honeymoon trip. In another co'umn appears an advertisement announcing a seven days sale of ironmongery .at bed-roOk prices at Snewin and Co's.

The Bev William Beckett the newly ap» pointed Wesleyan Minister at Waihi, will preach at the Te A roha Wesleyan Church tomorrow, Morning and Evening, and at Te Aroha West in the afternoon. Wo learn that the Bev F. W. Isitt of; Prohibitionist fame, is shortly to visit Te Aroha. -He is a highly gifted and eloquent speaker whom it is-a treat to listen to.and As a , lecturer and- an ardent Temperance reformer ba,sgained great renown^-

; Hamilton East; am employee at Mr I. Coates flaxsmill,' had a miraculous escape on Tuesday. Daring a respite the safety box alongside the feeder was, removed, and when.the mill resumsd work the'cap, had not been replaoed, and Mr Callaghan, who was feeding in tho flax leaned overt'bo get some more material with fts lbft As he did so his shirt sleeve caught in thelnachinery, and his arm waß quickly drawn towards the cogs. Fortunately the sleeve gave way, otherwise his arm must have been severely lacerated or broken. As it was, he escaped with a few scratches.

Some neighbours have recourse, tp. fipepniiar to pvent; jfcheif spfeen. Tn a certain special settlement no£long ago therpr waai quarrel; the result being,that; one or tbe parties was bound over to keep the peace* The sequel is told' in the following pathetic story in a letter read at the meeting of the Land Board yesterday:— ’ As the outcome .of a Court case they removed tbe pig-sty from a site nearly in the centre of their section, where it coaid do no barm to anyone, to another Apposite our kitchen window; and barely two chains away from it. Close to this pig- sty is the artesian well, from which we get our water supply, and we fear that it will seriously affect it. Already, even in winter, the smell of the sty is almost unbearable, and they use our boundary fence for one side of tho pig yard.’ Unfortunately in this pretty squabble the Land Beard could afford no relief.

A mob of 90 horses—-old ‘crocks,’ collected from various parts of the district, which have been worn out in the aervice of man and to whom death.must come as a happy release from a weary existence—weredriven to the Gisborne Freezing Company’s works on Tuesday morning, and there.slaughtered Their hair, hides, and hoofs ara marketable Commodities, and their carcases Are to be converted in to manure. . Mobs of decrepit sheep and cattle have beep similarly dealt with, and it is claimed that it is better that they should be so turned to profitable acconnt’than that they should continue to oat up pasture in the district;which ehoiild be feeding sound ahd'healthy atA , k. ; -“P. B. Herald.

The Annual Meeting on behalf of the Wesleyan Foreign Mission will be held in tbe Morrinsville Church on. Monday evening the 25th irist. Addresses will be given by Bev. W. Beckett on ‘Missionary Heroes ’ and by Bev S. Griffith on ‘ From Dark to Dawn in Fiji’—; an address is also expected bv a speaker from Annandale and interesting gathering is expected. A collection will be taken up for the Foreign Mission Fund.