ODDS AND ENDS.

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

ODDS AND ENDS.

Fine weather. Water sca-ce. Bridge contract progressing. Borough Council met last night. Number of vis‘to»s here at proseut. Lost baker’s bonk is advertised for. , Pinko County Council meeting to morrow. Tho privileged of the Show will be so’d on Saturday 20th January. Mosqui oes waging war against all and sundry justndw. Big business done on railways during holidays. Te Aroha A.-and H Show promises to he a mon stei’yu rn - out this year. •‘j Our boys” |n the Transvaal are making a n mefior themselves. The multitude have chased scoffing (as was their custom) at vo’unteers for a short fc'm". 0

During, and N w Year holidays dver 43,00(1) people were carried on the Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier sections of the Government railways. The second Wool sale of the season held yest erd iy, and good prices were realized. The total number of persons relieved at the Hospital during the p: st year, was 1527. Nominations for the Tennis Tournament close with the secretary (Mr J. T. Main gay) at 8 o’clock this evening. A mee f ing of all interested in the children is called for to-night (Thursday), to make arrangements re an excursion. According to the Post, some miscreant threw a lighted match into the postal pillar-box, in Sussex Square, Wellington, alongside the Basin Reserve, with the result that three letters were almost wholly destroyed, and a magazine charred. The Thames patriotic fund now stands at £ll2 ss, which amount includes the sum of £8 collected by the Naval Band, as a result of an open-air concert on Saturday evening, and £6 103 collected at a special service of St James’ Presbyterian Sunday-school.