LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr W.. Ilethorington, Pah farm, invites tenders in. another column for the erection of a f-;ur-roomed house, tenders close on 3rd' April. The Junior footballers will, moot for practice in the Becreation ground this afternoon. All are requested to roll up. The Te Arolia Musical Society will meet this (Thursday) evening- at 7.30 o’clock. Intending new members will please attend at 7.15 pan. A full attendance isoi-pented. A re-place advertisemen t wild be found on the opposite ] age from. Hetherington and Co., drapers, etc., in which they announce the opening up of a large assortment of Lades’ American shoos, in tan and black, at prices to suit all classes of. purchasers. They are also offering, during this week, the balance of Summer oddments, at clearing sale prices. Goods .must be cleared, to make room for-arriving stockWe are always pleased to hear from “ Our Boys” at the front. By last mail to hand a further communication was rereived from Private J. F. Strange, m the course of which ho says he is in excellent health,.considering the hardships all and sundry are compelled to put up with; he speaks of Slingersfontein — where the N.Z. M.R. pitched their tents for some time —as the most dusty and disagreeable place yot visited, which is saying a good deal. In his note he desires to he remembered to his friends friends in Te Aroha, and also to members of the Te Aroha Rifle Volunteers. The other day we noticed no less than 17 teams at work on the Waitoa Estate (of which Mr Thos. Heath is manager) busily engaged ploughing and breaking down preparatory to sowing in grass. The Secretary of the Te Aroha A. and 11, Show notifies that the annual meeting of the Society will be held in the Waihou Public Hall to-morrow (Friday) evening. “ Bring us a bill-hook, please Miss, and I’ll clear some of this scrub first,” was the answer given by a country bumpkin to a waitress at one) of the Auckland hotels, in answer to lier query whether he would take soup. The profusion .of ferns and other botanical specimens used to,.decorate the dining table was the cause of- his remarkable observation.

The Northern s.s. Co., being anxious to develop trade between Thames and Coromandel, has decided to run the s.s. Rotomahana between the two places. The jockey Neill, injured through th fall of Glenloch in the Paeroa Steeplechase on'Saturday last, when the mare broke her neck, has made a quick convalesence, and is about again, though his complete recovery will take a little time. * The Borough Councillors at Gore have bees behaving themselves so badly of late that the burgesses, in public meet ihg assembled by fifty to ten, carried a vote of censure and called on them to resign in a body. An election which is to be hold shortly in order to fill the vacancy in the new House of Representatives' caused by the death of Mr Crowther, M H.R., is arousing some interest. So far the only candidates announced to contest the seat are Mr Holland, ex-M.H.R., and Mr Wm. '»Richardson, PrQhibitionist. Mr Richard Hobb3 will also in all probability offer himself as a candidate. A meeting of the Auckland Liberal Association is to be held in order to consider the situation and select a candidate. Mr "Witheford intimates that ho will contest the vacant seat if he finds it is the general wish of the citizens of Auckland, and that if elected, he wall support the present Government so long as they fulfil their present determination to do justice to Auckland.