Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42759, 10 August 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

2 his above all—to thine own self be true , And it must, follow as the night the day Viou cansi not then be false to any man Shakespeare.

At the Police Court yesterday a “drunk” was fined, or in default twenty-four hours imprisonment. The offender decided to “take it out.”

Archdeacon Willis presided at the opening of the eighteenth session of the Waikato Arehidiaconal Conference at Cambridge. The Revs. Radclift'e and Fisher (Hamilton), J. P. Cowie (Paeroa), and Beck (Huntly) were present. The Revs. Clarke (Te Awamutu), and Buckland (Waihi) arrived yesterday. The Rev. Edmond Cowie (Te Aroha) apologised for nonattendance through indisposition. Messrs T: Wells and G. Dickenson (wardens) and several ladies wore also present. Among tho subjects that came up for discussion were Sunday funerals and the pension scheme. The match between the Piako and Rotorua reps, to be played on the Te Aroha recreation ground this .afternoon promises to be well-worth watching.

Tlie N.Z.D.A G'roamery at Aratiatia opened to receive milk on the 7th inst., and yesterday morning ten suppliers rolled up. The amount of milk put through was 2512 lbs., and the price to be paid out is lOd per lb. of butter fat for the month of August, to which will be added the shareholders profit bonus which will bo payable for the coming season. The management is again under the care of Mr W. J. Shaw who has everything in the pink of condition. Mr E. H. Hardy, of Hardy’s Mines, Ltd., has returned from his trip to Melbourne,

A couple of months ago, the London Standard put some (pi ati ms to the Agents-Geueral of the various colonies as follows :—l. What would you adviso a youug Englishman to do who is just leaving a public school, having strength, health, a capital of £SOO, and a desire to emigrate? 2. What opening are therefor such young fellows in the Colony you represent ? When"it came his turn, W. P. Reeves, now our High Commissioner, said : —’‘A young Englishman just leaving school, possessing good health and strength, should not, even if he has a small capital, go to New Zealan 1 without first qualifying himself by a cei tain amount of and experience for the work which he proposes to undertake when he arrives in the Colony The young man who has no profession or trade and no money is not wanted in New Z 'aland and it is no kindness to encouvage him to go there. Most of the best unimpioved land requires clearing, which involyes great labour and expense. A man, therefore, with sufficient capital should buy improved laud.” The moral of this is that we don’t want pioneers. And yet the Government won’t cut down the bush ! In *‘G id’s own country ” the bollocking evidently will have to bo done by the old colonists, fortheirso nsa re crowding ia ' o the towns, and the new-c oners must not bo allowed to hurt thomselvos.

There’s the snec/y cold, the wheezy cold, The tickler hi tlio glottis ; The chilly cold, the kiily cold, the cold that burning hot is The tearful cold, the feartul cold, The one that all the Jot is— Yet those be colds that none endure Who purcha.'e Wood's Great Peppermint Cure.

Bedsteads, cots, linoleum, trunks, etc., ex S. S. Papanui to arrive shortly, imported direct by Johnson and Wigg. Grices quoted'later. Advt. We draw the special attention of our readers to Mr W. Manson’s new ad - vertisement, Mr Hanson has recently opened up a really choice assortment of drapery, millinery boots, shoes, etc., which he is selling at ridiculously low prices. Call iu at the shop and be convinced.

In order to fully explain the system of working tho Separate Riding Account System, tho secretary of the Biako Ratepayers Ref >rm Association has forwarded to each of the members a printed copy of the letter and specimen Riding Account Sheet ho received from the Taranaki County Clerk. The working of the System is fully set forth in our issue of the sth insf. Letters from other County Cleiks recommend the adoption of the System. Egg laying competition. So many eggs coming forward that Johnson and Wigg have decided to charge Is per dozen from date for new laid eggs. Advt.

What is spoken of in religious circles as a “ revival ” seems to be in progress in the Te Aioha Methodist Church in connection with the meetings being conducted by Dr and Mrs Watson. Meetings will be held this evening and to.-morrow eveuing, and Dr Watson goes on Saturday to con duct a oiissiou at Waihi,

Cakes of all sorts, equal to anything in the district sold by Johnson and Wigg- Advt.