Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22213, 15 March 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

“ Theatiooliono ” exhibition in the Public Hall this evening, Piako County Council meet at Morrihsville on. Friday next. Mails via San■ Francisco close at the ocal Post Office on Saturday, 17th inst., at 1 0.20 a.m. The tender of Messrs Brooks and Annan has been accepted by the Board of Education for the erection of' a teacher-’8 residence at Shaftesbury. The price is £2Gl* 15s. In an advertisement the Borough Council warn intending water consumers, that no house connections are to he made, unless written application for permission to effect same, has been made and received. Several of the dairy companies in the Wairarapa districts are combining in order to test the legality of the action of the Tax Department in demanding payment of an income tax on. the moneys paid to suppliers of milk.

McNicol and Co.’s Cambridge stock sale on 16th; Hamilton, 22nd; Waihou live stock sale, 23rd. Rale of- high-class draught horses at Te Awamntu on 28th ; Cambridge Autumn horse sale on March 2gth and 30th. The Oliinemuri County Council invite tenders for certain works. Particulars will be found duly advertised. Several advertisements re excursion tiips for Ngaruawahia regatta and Paeroa races in another column. Trout have again been noticed in the vicinity of the railway bridge. Native game appear to be fairly plentiful this year. The shooting season opens at Easter. "We have been requested to warn holders of sections in To Arena that several summonses have just been issued from the. Warden’s Court for arrears of rent, and that more will shortly follow unless promt -i -iiayment be made of tie- amounts

j The architect and foreman of works, tinder the Board of Education, are at present in To Aroha, and it is probable the much-needed repairs to teacher’s residence and school outbuildings will be carried out. The dredge Manchester, which has arrived in Auckland, is thirteen months out from Liverpool to Lyttelton. She is in need of some cleaning and repairs. James Brennan, shot at Onehunga by James Donaghy, is progressing favourably at the Auckland Hospital. Donaghy, who is described- as wild-looking, and who appeared in Court coatless, replied to the charge :—“ Sure the gun had only a bit o’ powder in.it,” Told that he was being remanded to Mount Eden, he answered: “ Aye, that will do. I shall be as well off there as . anywhere.’ ’ He refused the offer of a coat, and also declined to profit by advice offered by an Auckland solicitor, remarking that he “ wanted no lawyers.” The Musical Society’s opening rehearsal which had been summoned for last Tuesday n’ght was adjourned, as an expression of sympathy with Mr J. G. White, a member of the chorus, whose wife died on Tuesday morning: The opening practice will consequently bo held on Tuesday evening next. A short meeting of the Committee was held, at which several new members were proposed and accepted. Mr Glynn-Lewis, the popular driver at Mr E. Gallagher’s - stables, took a brake load of visitors from tlio Hot Springs Hotel, to. the top of Ilotokuhu Gorge yesterday, The drive was cnj >yed by all and the picturesque scenery on the slopes much admired. Writing from Maritzburg, a correspondent of the Outlook, speaking of injuries inflicted by bullets in various battles, observes: “ One case where the bullet had been driven through the lungs very low down puzzled the doctors, for they failed to understand how the liver had been avoided. * I think you must be a total abstainer,’ said the doctor to the Gordon Highlander. ‘ 1 am, sir,’ he replied. ‘Well that is wliat saved your life.’ - The abstention from iiquor had; so kept the liver contracted that it had escaped the line of the bullet.”

Speaking at Gisborne,- the Hon. James Carroll said that in any English army there must be an element representing Greater Britain. No British army in the future would bo complete unless they had contributed their share of. youth, vigour and intelligence, to make up the complete whole. They were sending some of their best men, nearly all of whom w r : ? native born. He w; s pleased to state that there had not been one jarring note in connection with the despatch of the New Zealand contingents. Mr - Goo. Fowlds, M.11.R., of Auckland, is at present on a visit to To Aroha. In response to a request ho will deliver an address on ’ 1 Taxation, ’ in about a fortnight or three weeks lime, of which due notice will be given- Mr Fowlds is a splendid "public speaker, and is an enthusiastic advocate of the Single Tax principle. He will probably deal with the question of ‘Rating on Unimproved Values,’ a matter which agitated the settlers in an, adjacent district some months ago. As ,Mr Fowlds is an acknowledged master of. his subject, we strongly advise our readers, particularly the settlers, to attend the meeting.