LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 22734, 16 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Te Aroha Agricultural Society will be held in ! the Public Hall on Saturday next at 8 p.m. The report and balance-sheet will be presented, officers for the ensuing term elected, and any matters affecting the welfare of the Society in particular and agriculturalists in general, will be discussed. All members of the Society are requested to be present A good cook can do better, and a od oae cannot spoil good food if only they will try a Peerless Steam Cooker. .Johnson and Wigg, agents.—Advt. -Jr J. T. Glover, the well-known temperance lecturer, died at Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., on March 10. He had long been known as an active worker in the cause of temperance! His early work was done in England, but, in 1883, at the suggestion of Sir William Fox, he went to New Zealand and from thence to New South Wales. His funeral took place in Portland under the auspices of the British Benevolent Society. Mr Glover had planned to work several weeks in Oregon, and to speak on the social and labour problems and legislation of New Zealand, but heart trouble ended his useful career. Let other sing of Prince and King, mine’s a theme that’s greater; [ sing that great that won lerous things ! King Cough’s Exterminator ! No victor in triumphs car Shows conquests half as sure, For greater far the triumphs are Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. A London correspondent writing on 10th March, says : “ There are people who do survive in a quite surprising degree. Next Friday will be the 100th birthday of Senor Maurel Garcia, the world-renow ed teacher of singing •Just imagine, he is the brother of Malibran, the sometime queen of song, whose brilliant career ended in 1835 - seventy years ago. We talk of the great fees now paid to operatic stars’ but so long ago as her year 1830, Malibran, the Patti of her day—was receiving £125 a night. Another famous sister of the great centenarian teacher (Madame Viardot) is still alive, and still teaches and composes at the relatively youthful yet fairly mature age, of 83. But she is 17 years her 4 brother’s junior, and so he regards her tenderly as the little one”—a mere child.” It would be as well for the Ohine muri County Council to examine the bridges and culverts along the main road bet ween Te Aroha and Paeroa. Some of the planks are in a very rotten state, and make travelling posirfiely dangerous. Only the other day a lad was riding along the road when his horse went through one of the bridges throwing its rider a complete somersault on to the roadway, w here he remained in a semi-conscious state for some time. The horse, a valuable one, was considerably knocked about, its knbes being cut, etc. We understand the local body interested is to be asked to recompense the owner of the horse for damages sustained. Sheep-worring dogs are once agaiu on the warpath amongst the sheep i.i this district. One bottler has had s >me fifteen sheep worried, and others have suffered in a more or less degree. The dogs fr >m glimpses obtained of rhem, appear to be of the half bred cattle-dog class, the sort that are lowest on the list, as regards the amount chargeable for registration: Owners of dogs should look after them, especially at night-time, otherwise they might find themselves face to face with a substantial bill from some of the farmers in the district for losses sustained. The quetion of introducing, the I Bible into our state schools has received considerable impetus this year owing to the appointment of an organising agent, whose duty it is to tour the colony in the interests of the movement. Mr R A Wright, of Welli igton who has been appointed Colonial organiser, is now in Te Aroha. He has held successful public meetings iu various parts of the Colony, and has succededin organising a number of branches of the Biole in schools Referendum League. He intends h tiding a meeting this evening at 8 o’clock in the Public Hall, and will receive assistance from the local Ministers. In view of the immense importance of the question of the moral and religious training oE the young people of the colony, it is hoped that citizens and injparticular will attend to hear ‘what arguments the organiser have to advance in favour of his propaganda. Woods’ Grest Popper mint Cure. For Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d Oh ! Thon husky, ashmatidold fellow, Whom caughing has bent like a bow. Thus child with the colic, the discorsoate Wooer. -ft’B good for the W ealthy. it’s good for the poor Gf the system cold-stricken a perfect renewer. When sweetmeats too greatly allure; j Now mark what I say, nor depart ye From Wood’s Giieat Peffkumikt Curb. ]