Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22214, 17 March 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES & WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL

The school j)icn.ic from Netkerton yesterday was.-fairly *well. patronised., St Patrick’s Day races at Paeroa will' lie well patronised by Te Aroha residents.

Meeting in. Wailiou Public Hall this ovening-re selecting officers for. proposed Mounted Rifles,.

The ordinary.* monthly meeting of the ■Pialto Comity Council was held, at Morrinsville yesterday at 12 o’clock; i The Alameda with., the Frisco Mail arrived in. Auckland on Thursday. She was delayed two days by a.hurricane iil.the jvicinity of Apia; ; Rev E. J'.-McFarland will conduct the morning service at St Murk’s to-morrow. -There will be a. celebration, of the. Holy Communion.

Caretaker Stanley, by means of a cunning devise, is now able to fill the large swimming bath, in, remarkably quick time.

In the final'of'the singles in the-Tennis Tournament played yesterday afternoon Dansey beat Banks, six^—three ; six—three. Mr Dansey thus winning the singles; The Wesleyan Conference closed its sessions on, Wednesday last. The Rev and Mrs S. Griffith return to Te Aroha to-day- The Rev TA- Jougbin will occupy the Wesleyan- ■ pulpit to-morrow morning and evening. The remains of the late Mrs G.. Whito were interred in the Te Aroha cemetery on Thursday afternoon. Nearly all the members of. Lodge ArohaA.O.FNo 7599, attended the funeral, Mr White being one lof the officers .of the Order. The. Rev E. J.. McFarland! conducted the service at the grave in an impressive manner. Oh Monday evening next the Installation of.W.MI, and investiture of officers of Lodge.Te Aroha No. 52; takes place in the Masonic Hall; Bridge* Street, Bro A. S. Russell, G.M. elect, will officiate asinstalling officer; ' Mails for United’ Kingdom; etc., will leave Auckland.per Mararoa on 26th inst.. to connect-with Suez mail at Sydney on 3rd April, due in. London on 6th May. The Westralia will leave Auckland on . 2nd : April with mails-for the United Kingdom J ete:, to-connect with' Suez mail at Sydney on April 10th*. duo in.- London.on 13th May.•j On arrival of the Rotorua express at Walton on Wednesday morning, it. was discovered that one- ©f tHe wheels of a ‘loaded cattle tniok taken-ctuit Matarnata jliad fired, and was almost: red 1 hot.. The ;grease box- was, taken, off. and several buckets of water- applied; But it was considered unsafe to travel, and the truck was consequently put off'at the siding, and the cattle liberated in the stock-yard there;

The -Brisbane ’Telegraph- Bns.; following paragraph in with regard to M. Lazei-n; appears in- tho Publics Hall; on Tuesday •evening, next; 20th' inst —‘ One of the great features of the Company is the conjuring of M. Bazem. Many: magicians have been seen in (Brisbane, but it is verydoubtful if any' smarter performer than" Lazc-rn has ever visited this; city: His apparatus is simple, and the manipulation .of cards, eggs, watches, and'handerchiefs is remarkably 1 clean-' and clever.' The many friends- of the Eev T. A. Jcugliin, formerly the resident Wesleyan Minister of Te Aroha, will be glad to le-mi that he is- paying a- return: visit to Te Aroha, and will occupy the' pulpit of .the Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning and evening," when- no - doubt there jwilb bn-large congregations to hoar him; A few enthusiast's on" the 1 war have started collecting money at Greymouth for the 1 purpose of purchasing a small gold brick, which they intend to- send to General White. It will be made to hang on a watch ohaih; and will bear the following inscription : —“ To General Sir G. Si- White, Defender of Ladysmith." The reverse side has the-words “ From Greymouth; N.Z., March; 1900."’ Oh one side are written" the words. “ This is a brick,” on the other, “ You’re another." The following is from a reader of the 1 Owl,’ who has missed hia- whisperings lately:— There w'ts ah old" bird called the" Owl’; Who round Te Aroha would prowl. But a few words from- * Quiz,,’ _soon shut up bis phiz, • < _ And-we hear no from the ‘ Owl;’’