Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES WAIORONGOMAL ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22209, 6 March 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES WAIORONGOMAL ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sitting of the S.M and Warden!^Court to-morrow (Wednesday). The Installation of Lodge Te Aroha, is fixed to take place-on. the 19th inst,. Monthly meeting of Court Aroha, AD-F., will-be held on Thursday evening next in the lodge room.. Dur ing the past week Mr East, manager. of the Te Axoha-West creamery, has. been on the sick. list... His place is temr porarily filled by Mr Arnbury. Mr- East is-slowly recovering. During Lent a short service will be held every Wednesday evening at halfpast seven o’clock, at St.. Mark’s Church.. ltcv W.. J. Elliott., of Balclutha, is at present on a visit to Te Aroha. The Rev Me Slmdley was elected President of the Wesleyan Conference, and the Rev D,. J„ Murray re-elected, secretary.. At Paeroa yesteraky Mr H. Devercll was joined in matrimony to Miss M, Kean, late of Te Aroha. The ceremony, was- performed by Rev Beckett'. The happy couple passed, through Te- Aroha em route for RotoruaMr George Cutts. of Auckland, has accepted tile position f>f starter, at the forthcoming meeting of. the - Oliinemuri Jockey Club to bo held on,tlie 17th and IPth.instants.. We are pleased'to notice Air P: Gilchrist out and : about again, after bis recent.severe illness.. Mr Cranwell, representing; Air Hobbs (dentist;)', will pay his usual' visit to ■ Te Aroha. on Wednesday, and may be cqn~sultisd at Air Geo.. Robson’s pharmacy. ©hr-readers will notice that- the Bijou Vaudeville ■ and Concert Company will appear im the Town Hall on Friday evening -next, not in the Public Hall as previously inserted;. On .Friday last, on receipt of" the news that Ladysmith had been, relieved, the patriotic feeling was aroused in the Waiorongomai school children, who at once proceeded to show their feelings in. loud applause, ohoers wore given for. Lord Roberts, General Buller, and the British forces in South Africa. As they were granted.a; half they ore and a 1 made tracks homewards and soon re-turned-to -the -soboolgrounds armed -with flags of all colours * they next- formed two deep and marchedithrough the streets of Waiorongomai singing patriotic songs and cheering. Mr Bruce - Fordyeey the well-known driver at Smardon- Bros.’ next drove them into Te Aroha wh< r i they again gave vent to their feelings in singing and cheering. They were driven back as far as Stony Greek, from which place they wandered home in skirmishing order. •

A meeting of the Te Aroha Jockey Club is called for Friday next- at 8 p,m. in the Palace Hotel.- The Secretary requests that' all accounts owing by- the Club be forwarded to him before Friday.

Yesterday, while Mr Win. Reid was taking the preliminary steps towards breaking a horse into harness, the animal began to plunge, and Mr Reid, who had ho'd of it by the head; was thr«wn three or four times to the ground, one of the fingers of his left hand-became entangled 7 in the rains and was crushed badly. He at once made for Mr Robson’s-pharnuuy. where the injured finger was attended to; Mr H. E. Williams, lately manager of Mr J. B. Johnson’s ironmongery establishment, left Te Aroha by train yesterday morning for Reef ton, where he has secured' a lucerative appointment in Messrs Forsyth’s, Master and Co. A number of his friends and well-wishers were present at the station to bid- him good bye; Up to kite last night no trace whatever could be found of the girl, Daisy Rielly, who mysteriously disappeared from St Mark’s Vicarage over a week ago. It seems strange, in a country like this, that a person of mature years can' leave-our midst, without some knowledge of her whereabouts being brought to light. Fears are entertained as to whether or nothe girl has met with some mishap.

Numerous electors in the Ohinemuri Electoral District have received notices from the Registrar- of Electors to the effect that their 'names have been struck off the electoral roll for the district, in consequence of their not having voted at the general election, held in December last. In most cases the receipients of these notices recorded their votes at the last election, and are consequently at a loss to understand why they are struck off the roll. There is evidently a screw loose somewhere;-

The army estimates provide for 430,000 men and am expenditure of £6 1 ! ,499;400. At the sale of privileges in connection with the Ohinemuri J.C. meeting on Thursday, the gates brought L 136 (being bought by Mr Dalston, secretary of the club) and the publican’s booth LllO (Mr W. S. Montgomery).-