Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222038, 18 January 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Te Aroha Brass Band will render selections in the Domain this evening. The sale cf privileges in connection with the Te Aroha Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Show, will take place cn Saturday, 29fch inst. Horse owners are reminded that nominations close to-morrow evening for the Te Aroha Jockey Club’s i.aoes, with the secrotarj", J. W. Eennick. The races take place on 10th and 12th February. The officer commanding the Te Aroha Rifles has received a notification from the Brigade office that the annual Volley and Independent firing will be held on Thursday afternoon, 25th inst. at 2.80 p.m. and an Inspection Parade is called for the same evening. A Blenheim paper tells a story in reference to a lady who wouldn’t vote for either continuance or no license, but informed her friends, * I am going to vote for reduction ; I have always thought the publicans charged too much for their liquor. Their prices ought to be reduced.’ The No. 2 Battalion of the Ohinemuri Rifles intend to hold a memorial service for the late Trooper Bradford in the Criterion Theatre, Paeroa, on Sunday, 28th iu-st. All the corps of the battalion will be strongly represented. The Rev TV. H. Wilson, chaplain of the battalion, will preach. In view of the local business people’s c omplaint. of bad times and difficulty in collecting accounts, the annnal return of .the Post Office Saving Bank deposits in Thames district is instructive At the end of 1599 the total credit balance of 6569 depositors amounted to £186,542 17s 9d. In the previous year there ■ were 6093 depositors having £167,305 16s 4d to their credit, giving an increase of 476 depositors and £19,237 Is 5d in cash, Never before in the history of Te Arolia have the farmers been so long without a welcome shower of rain to moisten the ground and act as a stimulant to the crops. The farms in and around the district present a dried-up appearance, and feed is becoming scarce. The milk supply, in consequence, has greatly fallen off of late, and the suppliers are suffering in consequence. If the ’Frisco mail steamer, due at Auckland last night, called at Honlulu, en route, ‘he will have to undergo the usual inspection, and any mails taken on board at that port fumigated. The|Manawatu Daily Times states that at the meeting of directors of the Awa huri Dairy Company, it was decided to pay suppliers B|d per lb for churned butter for past month The total quantity of milk was 243,0341 b, as against 176,792 during the corresponding period of the previous year. The test for the month averaged 3,9.

Mails for United Kingdom, Continent of EuroDe, etc, via Fan Francisco, close at the Post Office on Saturday, 20th January, at 10.20 a.m. Mails due in London on Febuary2lst. The number of births registered at Te Aroha during the year 1899 were 73; marriages, 13; deaths 12. At a meeting of the office-bearers of the Hamilton-Te Awainutu Wesleyan Circuit on Thursday evening Rev H S Dewsbury presided. It was decided to request the Conference to appoint either Rev Griffith or Bellhouse as Minister in charge to fill the vacancy caused by Dr Hoskiug’s resignation.

Dante, the conjuror, gave one of his clever sleiglit-of-hand performances in the Town Hall last night. There was a fair, audience, and, judging by the applause, they seemed to bo delighted at the piofessor’s wonderful and clever tricks. He was ably assisted by Mdile Edmunda, widow of Dante the Great.