LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42747, 13 July 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Methodist service at Manawaru on Sunday evening next will taken by Mr T. Martin, who will give a special address on “Times’ Course.” Aluminium can now be rolled into sheets so thin that 4000, laid together measure only an inch in thickness. It is proposed to use these for wri paper where lasting records are desired.

The New Zealand ’Accident Insurance Co., has a new advertisement in this issue, to which we draw the special attention of employers of labour and all interested.

.4?All tickets bearing date June 26th returned to Johnson and Wigg during July, face value will be given in cash. —Advt.

St. Mark’s Parish Social, held in Public Hall on Tuesday evening last, was largely attended, and al present enjoyed themselves immensely. The evening was passed in singing dancing, cards, etc.

This is the last month of the shooting season. Local sports have not been troubled with big bags. Pheasants are few and far between, pigeons plentiful, especially in the vicinity of Katikati and Thompsons’ track,

The well-known temperance orator, Father Hays, appears to have made a very good impression in Auckland, as elsewhere, by the forcible arguments put forward in condemnation of drink ing intoxicating liquors. We are pleased to observe that Mr F C Pavitt, who has been confined to his bed about a week, suffering from a rather severe throat affection, is making rapid progress towards recovery, and it is expected he will be out and about as usual in the course of a day or two.

Johnson and Wigg’s custom-, ers will please note June 26th is declared bonus day for the month.— Advt.

Mr Buchan, of the Waihou Smithy, has bought out the business hitherto carried on by Mr J Cumming, in that township. In future Mr Buchan intends conducting his business on a much larger scale, so that it will be possible for settlers to obtain anything they require in the vehicle and agricultural implement classes, shoeing, etc., without going far from their farms. Mr Buchan’s abilities are too well known to require recapitulation at our hands.

At the special meeting of the Borough Council last evening Cr Devey drew attention to the practice of certain people in Morgantown placing clothes lines across the roads. —The clerk was instructed to make a note of it. Force is so well known now that anything we might say in favour is unnecessary. One thing only we would advise . buy it fiesh and sweet, and use plenty of it. See our window and you will have some idea what our turnover in this particular line is.— Johnson and Wigg.—Advt

The Waitara Mail is informed that a Maori woman entered the Waitara cemetery and buried a child, the grave being dug on top of other remains. The woman contended, so the Mail’s informant stated, that the place Bhe has chosen is where her mother lies, and Europeans have no right in the cemetery at all. When, a short time ago, the Premier said we were financially standing on velvet, the “ we ” to him must havn meant bis own pet province of West land, At any rate, a Westland witness before the L md Commission said that the settlement where he held a 'easehold was loaded to the extent of J 8936, but x 2971 had beeD 0 ent a 1 road format! n. Asked how that could be the case when settlers in other parts of the Colony were complaining that the amount of loading nad not been expended, the witness naively replied Wo have Dick Seddon for our member.” The explanation may satisfy some people, but is it not just about time Mr Soddon should bo taqgh) he is Premier of New Zealand as well as member for Westland? Wor Bronchial Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Js 6d j

Christchurch Truth sums up the “ New Liberal Party ” as follows : It is a party of bitter and vindictive malcontents ; a party of destructive politicians with no platform save this suddenly discovered ground of hatred and abuse of Seddonism; a party of ill-balanced rhetoricians, with no policy save the policy of derogation and depreciation. There is no faculty for building up amongst these “ New Liberals.” Their “ Liberalism” con* gists in the condemnation of the efforts of others. It is nothing but the sheerest impudence for half a dozen Radi - caLto call themselves “New Liberals, and to announce that *• they are going to fight Seddonism, because they have fallen out with the Premier.” Assurance is, however, their principal stock-in-trade.

The reading of modern girls „is a subject which has of late interested Lady Londonderry and other correspondents of the London “Saturday Review.” The idea of making a deliberate appeal to girls with a special series of books, uniformly bound, has been, advanced as having, perhaps, great potentialities. Whereupon an unfeeling manager of one of the larger publishing houses points out that, in the first place, “ any one of the books of which the modern girl is supposed to be so seriously in need, can be obtained from one or other of the publisher’s catalogues, or upon her applying to the nearest bookseller,” and, secondly, that open-air life and habits have distracted modern girls from the buying of books. “ However, habituated they may be to reading,” says this publisher, “they do not value .books as books, and they certainly do not spend their money upon them.” The whole controversy seems to be very much beside the point. It has long been asserted that in this country, women do more than men to keep the presses going, especially where fiction is concerned, but, as a matter of fact, the question of sex has little to do with the matter. A human being is born to care for books or not, as the case may he ; the taste is instinctive or it is not there at all, and it is no more dependent upon sex than it is dependent upon the colour of one’s hair or the shape of one’s nose. A bricklayer dropped a brick from a building lately, and it narrowly miss, ed the head of a passing lady. Hie boss rebuked him for his carelessneas. “ See what it would have cost me had you killed that woman,” he said angrily* “Indade an’ it would liev cost yer nothin’, sorr,” was the reply, “ that was me woif.”

“ I manage to keep my boarders longer than you do,” remarked a board ing house landlady to the opposition cat across the dividing fence. “ Oh, I don’t know !” retorted the opposition, “ You keep them so dreadfully thin, that they look longer than thy really are,”

While at a fire one cold winter night the chief of a fire brigade was asked if he would have a drink, ‘ I will have some whiskey,’ he said, * but I won’t drink it. With the man who had invited him he went to the back room of a restaurant and ordered whiskey. He did not offer to touch the glass to his lips. * Pour it down the back of my neck,’ he said. *lf soaks into my flannels and does me more good than if I were to put it in my stomach, and its a heap less dan gerous.’ ‘ Oh, this is no new wrinkle,’ he said when questioned. 4 Some firemen put it down their backs and some pour it in their boots. Both ways are good, but I like mine on my back. It is an old trick of firemen when they get very cold.’ Importers of New Zealand butter at home are thinking of shipping some back again, owing to high prices ruling locally this winter. We feel certain they would not do so if they only knew Johnson ahd Wigg are selling some of the very primest local farmers’ at lid per lb.—Advt. A butcher of Willis street, Wellington, was charged with issuing a notice to a debtor containing words implying that the said notice was connooted with the Magistrate’s Court. Dr McArthur, S.M., said that the case was not covered by the Police Offences Amendment Act of 1903, He declared the practice to be a most reprehensible one, and one that ought to be met by legislative action. He would not fail to refer the matter to the Department of Juctico and urge that steps bo taken to >t®p the practice.

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