LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22207, 1 March 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following is a complete list of donations received at the Waihou Post office’ in. connection with tfhe*;Patriotie Fund;—P. Bowers, £1 ; Mrs Abbey, 5s ; E. Mikklesen, 2s 6d; Mrs E. E.. Swney, 2; Una Saunders, 2s 6<i; Thos. Taylor 10s; C.C. Waihou, ss; C. McLcish," 2s 6d; Wm. Twidle, 2s 6d; Mrs E. Mikklesen, os.

It is the intention to. erect a freezin o, chamber in. Tauranga for the purpose ol storing moat, fish, etc., besides.the supply of ice. 1 J

Fruit pilfering is-said to be very rampant at Tauranga just now,, several orchards- being stripped during the past week.

* The game* of bowls is booming at Cambridge, and the late eha/mpioa ‘ handicap fours-’ proved such a success that it is now to be followed by handicap. * pairs ’ for two pairs of bowls, presented to the club by anonymous donors; Messrs McNicol and'Co will hold their annual Autumn horse sale at Cambridge on. Thursday and Friday, 29th and 30th March, and will offer- upwards of 300 horses of afl ; descriptions. The sale will , commence at It o'clock on Thursday and 9 a.m. on Friday. On account of this, the Waihou sale, which*should Beheld on the 29th, will take place one week earlier, namely—Friday, 22nd’March.

j Yesterday morning Scrgt W. Maingay, of the Te Aroha Rifl’cs, journeyed to ; Paeroa, in order to finish his firing for the | District Medals.. The. conditions- were : J Class-firing targets (4 points for bulls-eye) j Id shots at 300, 500 and 700‘yards, kneeling at 300yds. The result of his shooting is as follows :-—3ooyis 27 ; 500yds 38 ; < 1 00yds 33; total 98-; This is one- point Behind Yol Robertson’s (Waihi) shooting, who succeeded in getting on 99; and will ; therefore win the medal | President Kruger, in spite* of his : mes- : sages to the New York World, does not' like Americans. In reply to- w deputa- . tion that waited upon him some* time ago, the President asked-, “ If a. crisis should occur, on which side shall I find the Americans ?” The answer was, “On the side of liberty and'good.gpvernment.” The President replied, “ You are all alike, tarred with the same Bush ; you are British in your hearts.”' The following are the tenders received for the erection of a four-roomed cottage at Wraiorongoniai for Mr Morarity • A Bygrave Llls 10s (accepted) ; James McCord, Hl7; M. O’Grady, El 18, Mills and Jackson, Lll9 5s 9d • A Annan.. Ll29Williams Collins, Ll3B 17s.

Attention, is drawn to Mr J. W.. May’s re-place-advertisement in another column Mr May offers, the balance of summer* goods at exceptionally low prices.

Mr John Mathias,, a well-known stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky., says:. ‘After suffering-for over a week with flux, and my physician Having failed to relieve- me I was advisedto. tr> Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and. have the- pleasure of stating that the half of one bottle cured me.’ For sale by W H Wright. Price Is6d ; large size &