Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222033, 6 January 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sale in X’ und to-day. Tiie services at tlio Wesleyan Church to-morrow will be conducted morning and evening by the Ilev S. Griffith. 7 acres of land, 3*orclmrd in full bearing, with 6 room house, is advertised for sale or lease.' The morning service at St Mark’s to-morrow will be taken by the Vicai, and the evening by the Rev Joseph Campbell. Wo are pleased to report that Mrs Hyde is recovering from her recent aceidout. * Ratepayers are notified in another column that legal proceedings will be taken against all those who have not yet paid their 1898-9 rates. Also that a penalty of ten per cent will be added to all rates f ir the cut rent year if not paid before tho end of this month. A meeting of the committee of the Te Aroha Agricultural and Horticultural Society will be held in the Doiuair Office on Saturday evening, 13th iust-., at 7.30.

As an evidence of the popularity of Te -A: oh a as a pleasure, as well as a health ivso.t, we may mention iliat during tin holidays the accommodation of (ho town was taxed to its utmost capacity, in fact many were unable to ob'ain accornin dation, and in one instance a party of five had to journey to Waihou to seek lodgings.

A shooting match for second class shots of the To Aroha Rifles was fired at the local range on New Year’s Day The ranges were 500 yds and 000yds, seven shots at each. There we; e six competitors, Yol Cummings taking the first prize (a cruet), with the score 46 ; the 2nd prize (a fat lamb) was won by Yol Biggs.

Duringtho holidays Te Aroha presented quite a lively appearance, large numbers availing themselves of the cheap railway fares to visit our pretty little township. OnNow Year’s Day and Tuesday oxcuisiun trains were run frorn (he Thames, ■'returning i u the evening. It is estimated that about 2500 persons made the journey on each occasion.

Sunday night last being the end of the old year, many decided, as customary, to see the new year in. One individual, desirous of celebrating the event in a manner to be remembered, thrust his hand through two windows of a local boarding-house ; (hen sallied up to the fire-bell, and mounting the scaffold, rang out the alarm. As he descended from his elevated position he was met by tho man in blue, who proceeded (o place him under arrest, but the offender, seemingly of the acrobatic persuasion, eluded the con stable’s grasp, turned one or two somersaults, and seized the constable by the logs threw him heavily to the ground, and disappeared iu tiie darkness. No doubt the culprit will make his appearance beforo the Magisterial bench in due course.

Y e learn that Captain Reid, of the Waikato Mounted- Rifles, was offered the command of the No. 1 Company of the Contingent, but as ho cannot arrive till late next week it may not be possible to utilise his services. We also understand that Lieut Heather, who hails from t.h(^aygfljfc|^b eer j > > d