Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE OROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222044, 1 February 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE OROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sitting of the Ohinemuri Oounty Council to day at 2 o’clock. Monthly live at ck Bile at Waihou yards to-morrow. Osman Digna has boon imprisoned for life at Roeetta.

The Clerk of the Court notifies that he will bo absent at Paeroa during lhe next few days.

Heeling of St. Mark’s Yestry is called for to-morrow evening- at 7 o’clock.

A Nihilist plot has been discovered at Warsaw and St. Petersburg. One hundred and fifty arrests weie made. Seahorse has been shipped at Auckland for Sydney, to fulfil engagements at the Victoria Racing Club’s Meeting. The Russian newspapers predict a gradual partition of China, while some prophesy a Russo-Japanese alliance. A sitting of the Te Aroha Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden’s Court will be held on Wednesday next, at 11 n.m.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr James Mills, J.P., John Jackson was fined 10s and costs 7s, in default 48 hours, for being drunk in Whitaker-street on the 30th Januai-y While six Italians and two children were crossing Thompson s River, at Waihalla, the old punt foundered, and four men and the two children were drowned.

We are pleased to learn from latest advices, that Mr Gilchrist, who has been in a precarious condition for some weeks pas% is gradually getting stronger. - Attention is directed to an adver” tisement in another column, inviting tenders for certain drain work required within the Piako County. Specifications may be seen at Messrs Mclndoe and Hill’s.

Children are specially invited to attend the rehearsal of choruses for the Patriotic Fund concert. The rehearsal takes place in Smardon’s Hall, this afternoon, at three o’clock.

Capt. O’Meagher reminds the Te Aroha Rifles that a general meeting of the Company is called for Tuesday evening next. The business to be discussed is to assist the Patriotic Fund

A correspondent writes .- —“ I think it is time our worthy Councillors called tenders for lighting the lamps within the Borough. I believe a ‘lamplighter’ already exists —at least he receives the ratepayers money for so doing—but his duties are more often noticed in tho breach than the observance. Last night (Wednesday) the lamp opposite Devey’s smithy was not lit ; and I could mention others that are frequently missed on the darkest nights.”

Those who wish to renew their old age pensions should lose no time in attending to the ma ter. The'fitst pension year will soon close, and it becomes necessary for the pensioner, within seventeen days of the corresponding date upon which the pension was originally granted, to obtain and send to the registrar of his district an income and property statement for the year. j

We congratulate Bugler Salmon on his splendid ;• hooting iu the Nursery Match und Star Oup competition, which took place at the Auckland itifle Association's meeting on- Saturday and Monday last. In the latter competition Bugler Salmon made a. score of 61, tying with Major White, a crack shot, an i winner of the everjL, while our consistent sh -ctist, Sorgv. Mainaay, came third with the score of W,

On Monday evening, in the Wesleyan Church, quin a <rc-t was aff rded tho.-e present, by the Rev C. E Beecroft, w* o de'ivered a stirring address on “‘A Ridf on the Knife-b aid of a Lend’ n ’Bus.” S • graphic was the de cribing power of the lecturer, that one could almost picture the panorama described by the rev. gentleman. During the evening tho touching solo, “ Daddy,” was feeling rendered by Miss Elsie Dazeley, of Tasmania ; the organist of the Church, Miss Hirst, accompanied the singer. The chair was occupied by Mr Laybourn. A collection was taken up in aid of the Trust Fund. A man named Carlson was the victim of an exceedingly painful accident at Waitekauri this week. He was engaged cutting timber in the bush, when by some means tho axe slipped, and coming down with full force ou tho right foot, almost severed the whole of the toes. The poor fellow was alone at the time, and, notwithstanding his agony, he walked a mile in the bush, caught his horse, and rode bare-backed to Waitekauri, where the foot was bandaged. . Carlson was then taken to Waihi, and the injury attended to by Dr Forbes, and the patient is now doing as well as can be expected. Miss Clara Margaret Abercrombie, aged 24, has disappeared from the resdenco of his parents, who keep a book depot in Karangahape Road. It appears that sho left her home to go to Beo Dr Wine, at 8.30 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, since which hour sho has not been seen. On enquiry at Dr Wine’s residence, it was found that she had never-been there. Miss Abercrombie has been very despondent of late, and fretting a good deal, but could give no reason to her parents wli}' she should do so. A note has been found in her Bible in tho following terms :— 1 Good-bye. T don’t think I was ever converted ’ Her parents are very respectable people, and are greatly distressed at their daughter’s disappearance.- It appears that sho had influenza recently, and it is feared that it may have affected her mind.