LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222036, 13 January 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A sitting of the Magistrate’s and ’Warden’s Court’s will he held at Te Aroha on Wednesday next, 17th. at 10 a.m.

The Ohinerauri and Piako County Councils invite tenders for various road and other works. Members of Masonic fraternity are reminded that the monthly meeting takes place on Monday next. The nomination of officers for the ensuing year is set down as part of the business of the evening. McNicol and Co.’s auction sales will •be found in their usual column. A contributor writes suggesting tli. t an athletic meeting be held in aid of the Patriotic Fund, as we have every convenience for holding such a meeting. Owing to an eversight the names of Messrs McGregor and Crombie was omitted from ihe list of the Committee to arrange for assisting the Patriotic Fund.

We beg to acknowledge receipt of Bond’s Almanac for 1900, which is in advance of all previous productions as far as get-up and amount of valuable information is concerned.

At a meeting of the Oamaru Agricultural aud Pastoral Association on Wednesday it was decided to request tlio Government to sus} end the cooperative works throughout tho colony during harvest time, owing to tho expected scarcity of harvest r\ The time table for January is to hand of the New Zealand Government railways, and tho Wellington-Mana watu and Now Zealand Midland Railway Companies’ private lines. Tho only iinpoitant alteration siuce last monthly issue is that the time-table of the Palmers'on-Napier line is altered. Tho forthcoming A. and 11. Show promises to bo a great success. Secretary Fred Strange and the Committee are working energetically in the interests of tlie Society. Tho work of constructing the Wailii railway is to be proceeded with at once. A surveyor is at prcs< nt in the district viewing ibo proposed route, and it is expected tiie forma'ion work —on the e -operative principle—will bo proceeded with iu the course of a few week-'.

By advertisement it will be seen that the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, or “Mormon Church,” several members of which have been labouring’ amongst tho Maoris in this district for some timo past, will hold divine service on Sunday evening in the Publ c Hall at 7 o’clock. Elder T. P. Driggs, of Thames, presiding. A : 1 arc cordially invited, seals are free and no collection will bo taken up.

The railway returns for the first nine mouths of the financial year ending December 31st, 1899, show an increase of over £90,090 compared with the corresponding period of last year. This does not include tho holiday returns. Oil. North. Island lines the total revenue in December was £48,900, against £48,428 in December, IK9B. Passenger traffic represented £4929, against £4440, aud goods £8034, against £S39B. The greatest iacrcaso was on tho Hurunui-Bluff lino, viz. : Passengers £20,000, against £19,400, and goods £42,100, against £40,000. I We notico that that cn‘e- prising firm, the Americ m Tobacco Company, of New Zealand, Limited, have generously donated a sum of £lO5 towards the New Zealand Contingent and Patriotic Fund. This is the third time this company have assisted in swelling t' e above fund, and it is an example for o h< r large and small companies to do likewise.

On Satu.day next a team of cricketers from this district intend paying a visit to Katikati, and try conclusions with an eleven in that neighbourhood. The secretary of tho Board of Education has apprised Messrs Frith and Alack: e, builders, Te Aroha, that their Under of £157 9s has been accepted for the erection of tlie new school at ; Manawaru. Messrs Frith and Mackie are at present engaged in building a 1 commodious butcher’s shop for Air John Rowe, opposite the Palaeo Hotel. Owing‘to a number of tlie members of the To Aroha Brass Band being absent from the district holiday making, while several aro also indisposed through sickncs", it has been found impossible for them to play in the Sanatorium grounds as is the custom. 1 The ‘Observer,’ which seems to have taken Jackson Palmer, AI.H.R., under its wing, is very wrathful with this paper, which, it says in effect, wrote disparagingly about its protege. In its anxiety to get at this journal the ‘ Observer’ overlooked the fact that the sentiment complained of was not an editorial one, so that to a certain extent our contemporary is ‘ barking up the wrong troo.’ It is very much a matter of opinion—say political opinion—as to whether tho ‘Observer’s’ estimate of the gentleman referred to or that of our contributor is the more accurate. The edi'or of this paper is no more responsible for the opinions of its correspondents than the editor of the Observer and Free Lance is for a lot of tho balderdash contained in its ‘Country Cousin’ c dumns.

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