Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2135, 28 July 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898.

Taranaki beat Wellington by 6 points to nil at the Huwera football ground on Tuesday. Milk, Mr Davenport, of Waiorongomai, undertakes, in an advertisement in another column, to supply on and after the first of September next at very low rates. Tenders are invited in another column for the supply and delivery of 1000 tons of green flax at any railway station within 20 miles of Morrinsville. Conditions of contract to be seen at the office of this paper. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Ohinomuri County Council will be held on Thursday, 4th August, at 2 jD.m. We interviewed Mr A. Morrison yesterday on his'return from Auckland, where he had been waiting on the executive committee of the Board of Education as one of a deputation from Manawaru (Mr Andrew Farmer being Mr Morrison’s colleague), appointed to interview that body on the subject of a school-house for that settlement. He reports that they met with a courteous reception, and their arguments were attentively listened to. Although nothing is known, we think the action of these two public-spirited settlers will meet with its fitting reward, and that the executive wiil see its way to recommend the erection of a school-house at Manawaru.

Lieut. F. Scott has received official notice that he has passed a very creditable examination, and the corps are to be congratulated on the success of their Lieutenant, who has always proved himself an efficient officer.

The Te Aroha Brass Band have decided to have uniforms ready for the spring. The uniform will be best quality Fox’s blue serge, braided with yellow braid, and faced with scarlet. Mr Salmon, the military tailor, has the contract, which is sufficient guarantee that they will be made in a first class style.

. The attention of our readers is directed to an advertisement in another column, by which it will be seen that a coach will leave Gallagher’s stable at 7 o’clock to-morrow evening for Waihou, where one.of the popular socials is to be held.

A meeting was held in the Church at Morrinsville on Monday evening, in aid the Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Mission Fund. The Rev. Beckett gave an interesting address on the ’‘Heroes of the Mission Field,” in which he pointed out the noble and self-denying work that Missionaries have done. The Rev. Josi ph Griffiths gave an address on Missionary work in Fiji, showing how in the last half-century Fiji, which was one of wickedest countries, had become one of the most Christian.

The flax boom is becoming daily more and more accentuated, or inflated, or whatever the correct term' may be. At any rate the price for machinery employed in the process of preparing the raw j hormium tenax for the market is hardening. Mclndoe and Hill are advertising a bargain, we observe, in another column, to which we have pleasure in directing attention.

Lieutenant Yates, of the 3rd Lanarkshire Regiment, has won the Queen’s Prize at Bisley with a score of 329. The best Vietoriau scores were : Fargher, 318, who occupies 16rh position, and won a badge and £l2 ; Sloan 305, who also won a badge and £lO.

A relic of the Grecian Bend, wrecked in Hawke’s Bay Waters years ago, was discovered by the Napier Harbour Boaid’s diver the other day whilst searching the bottom of the bay near the Pania Reef, where a fishing trawler’s nets had become fouled. The diver came across the rib of a vessel sticking out of the ground, with a number of bolts on it.\ The Grecian Bend, it will be remembered, struck on the Pania Reef during a heavy storm, none of her crew being left to tell the tale. . Says the Hastings StandardA newspaper in this colony has practically no privilege. It dare not publish bona fide the report of speeches made at public meetings lest it should be mulcted in damages for libel. It cannot expi.se wrong-doing or imposition as it should do, so dire may be the consequences. The libel laws of New Zealand are, in fact, obsolete, more vicious and inimical to the Public interests than those of any colony in the Southern Hemisphere.

He was courting the farmer's daughter but one night he was forcibly ejected from the house. Later on he made another call “ Well, sir,” said the old farmer, indignantly, “ what ai-e you doing here agaiu? I thought that the delicate hint I o-ave you as you left my front door last nio-ht would cure you.” And the speaker ooked at his caller in-a reminiscent way. .. it did,” said the young man, as a look of mingled pain and ad mi ration came over his face ; “ but I thought I would come and ask you if you would like to join our too - ball club.”

We are familiar (says a London paper ) with the idea of bringing water from the Jordan for baptisms. At Westminster Abbey at Mr Gladstone’s funeral earth from tlie Girden of Gethseruane was strewn on the coffin, [t was the gift of an admirer, wh s.* name, by his own desire, was not disclosed.

The tender affection of Mrs Gladstone for the dead statesman was characterised by implicit faith and reverent devotion. An English bishop was a guest at Hawarden Castle, and joined in a conversation with Mrs Gladstone and others concerning the Armenian atrocities, ‘ There is one above who knows,’ piously concluded the bishop. * Yes/ replied Mrs Gladstone ; * he’ll be down in a minute or two. He’s upstairs washing his hands just now.’

So far ho trace has been discovered of the missing woman, Mrs Hille, of Nelson, whose mysterious disappear ance from the s.s. Haupiri, at Picton, we chronicled last week. When Mrs Hille was last seen by the steward she was sitting with her hands before her face as if in pain or distress. She was also seen by the stewardess about six o’clock the same evening. Sergt. McArdle received a telegram from Westport from a Mrs Robinson, who had been a passenger by the Haupiri. She stated that while at Picton she observed on the steamer a young woman who ansivered to the description of Mrs Hille. This woman appeared to be in familiar conversation with a young man in a gray suit, who got off the boat at Picton, being bound for Blenheim.