LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222051, 15 February 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The school excursion to Rotorua on Thursday next will be largely attended.

Piako County Council meet to-mor-row at Mou’insville.

Ladysmith garrison will be able to hold out for weeks.

Mr J. Keaney, at present engaged in the Te Puke district, has been appointed to take charge of the Manawaru district.

’Frisco mail closes at local Post Office on Saturday 17th inst., 10 20 a.m., due London March 21. Entries for the Oliinemuri A. and H. Society close with the secretary, Mr Edwin Edwards, on Saturday next This Society’s Show is rapidly coming to the front, and the number of entries this year promises to be an increase on previous occasions. The Education Department has informed the Auckland branch of the Teachers’ Institute that the Government has tinder consideration the adoption of a colonial scale of teachers’ salaiies. ' _ • Ladies’ and children’s hats reduced to 10s, Is, and Is lid, about one half usual selling prices, at A. W. Edwards.’ —Advt

A touch of nature is pleasant in ’he dark background of battle Describing the cavalry going in’O action at the battle of the Tugela, a spectator writes i—As we marched along I noticed a little fox terrier also ranged alongside one of the corps as if on business bent. Whetl er the poor little creature lived to return or not I do not know. The Parawai School Committee has cast its vote for Messrs Wm. Lambo, J. D. McKenzie, and Alfred Oldham, for the vacant seats on the Board of Education.

Ba’ance of summer stock now being sold at prices that must effect an immediate sale at A. W. Edwards.— Advt.

At a meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Soeiety held in Auckland on Tuesday, it was resolved to give the sum of £2 2s towards the testimonial got up on behalf of Mr Dansey, the postmaster at Rotorua, on his removal to the South Island.

No sooner have we brought to a successful issue our annual race meeting, than ’ho popular Thames Valley Jockey Club’s annual gathering is announced at Tirau (late Oxford). Monday, April 16L is the day fixed for the running, and nominations close wish the Hon. Secretary (Mr H. G. Rose) on Saturday, March 24th. Weights will appear on the 31st March. Horse-owners will do well to bear these rla’es in mind. Ladies’ and children’s white canvas shoes must now be cleared,’regardless of cost, at A. W. Edwards.—Advt.

Mr John Clnrkin, of Paeroa, bad a marvellous escape from a sudden deah on Monday last. He was driving a team of eight horses in a waggon loaded with sundi-ies for Waikino, and when opposite the Woodstock dam a portion of a largo tree slid down from the hi'lside, striking the leaders and causing them to go right over into the river bed. The whole affair was so sudden that Mr Clarkm hod no time to escape, and waggon and horses fell about 15 feet, fortunately on a sandy bottom, and Mr Clarkin gob mixed up with the horses. He is badly bruised, but no bones are believed to be broken. Fortunatf ly the waggons always travel in company, and one of his own and also two of McLennan and Hope’s were there, and tbe drivers quickly rescued him, and sent him away to Paeroa in a buggy. Wonderful to say the horses escaped without a scratch, with the exception of one. The waggon is a wreck. *