Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 1905. Local and General.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42786, 3 October 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 1905. Local and General.

Jliis above all—to thine own self he true, And it m•■'xt follow as the night the day Thou canal not then be false to any man Shakespeare.

To-day the New Zealand football team at Home plays Middlesex, One day is n- t always a a good as another, for Tuesday, Sept. 19, stands out far above the rest as being Messrs Johnson and Wigg’s bonus day.— Advt.

The total revenue on the Auckland section of Government Railways for the period ending August 19th, was £20,743 12s Bd. For the corresponding period last year, £21,382 Is 9d. An enjoyable evenings entertainment will be provided lat Morrinsville on Friday evening next, when a concert will be given in aid of the Tennis Club. After the concert, refreshments will be handed round, and a dance will follow. A good programme has been arranged by Dr Seville. A five-horse brake will start from Hogan and Jackson’s stables, Te Aroha, at 6 p.m., returning after the concert. The brake wi'l pass Waihou soon after 6 p.m., when any who wish to go to the concert may join: Misses Lavery announces the arrival of novelties in spring and summer hats, etc. Sound practical experience in millinery and dressmaking, and a careful study of the latest models will no doubt be a great inducement to patrons. Misses Lavery’s announcement will appear in our next issue.

Mr Cad well, for some time guard on the Frankton train, was last night presented by the local railway staff with a handsome marble clock, and a silver mounted biscuit barrel, as a nvu’k of esteem from his friends, he being about to take up duties on another part of the section. At a party at which Mrs Cadwell was entertained by her lady friends, she was presented with a case of one dozen pretty serviette rings, and Mr Cadwell was the recipient of a very useful shaving service.

With regard to a rumour which is being circulated, we are able to state that there is absolutely no doubt that Sept. 19 th is Messrs Johnson and Wigg’s bonus day.—Advt. An unrehearsed incident, says the Hot Lakes Chronicle, caused no little amusement at the Black Family’s concert on Thursday night. Whilst a humorous sketch was being acted by Mr. and Miss Black, Miss Black’s chair suddenly gave way, and she wasonly just able to save herself from falling upon the board, On examination it was seen that there was a hole in the stage flooring, through which a leg of the chair had slipped. For some momenta both performers and audience laughed heartily at the contretemps, the performance being Mien resumed.

The opening of the Paeroa Bowling Green has been postponed until Saturday, October 21st. The next English and European mail via San Francisco closes at the Post Office on Thursday, at 11.0 a.m.. ihe 4th proximo, and is due in London on November 4th. Whilst Hatrick, draper, remains in Te Aroha the residents and tourists may depend upon getting fresh an i seasonable goods at reasonable prices. A common remark by ladies from Auckland when purchasing fancy goods etc is, “you have better variety and value than we get in the city.”—Advt. In connection with the meat famine in Germany, the number of butchers in Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, . who, owing to the inability of their customers to pay such high prices for meat, have had to close their shops has reached 37.

Chicken-farming on the roof of a <• B ky scraper” is the latest fad in New York. An inspector of the L. andN. W. Railway Company, prosecuting a man in Manchester recently for i-iiaaling a towel, said that during the pass two years nearly ten thousand towels had bee a lost by the company, Smart work in the harvest-diel*! has been accomplished at a farm nea Biggleswade, England. Thirteen and a half acres of wheat were cut in excellent stylo in 3hr. 2min. by an agricultural motor working two 6ft. binders. As a riding"master for many years, sa y g a correspondent of a London paper, I held, amongst other appointments, the post of instructor to a ladies’ physical training college. My experienceis that practially all ladies who have ridden astride prefer that method to the side-saddle, but ride in the latter fashion because it is the more usual. V -,

Our best friends, the farmers, are strongly advised not to buy our latest in bedsteads and beds if they want the young folk up in time to milk. For comfort they cannot be equalled. But one thing we are agents for that might save ihem much valuable stock iSy Ice’s Red Dm neb at I s 6«1 per packet, Johnson and Wigg.—Advt. Londoners rarely make their own bread, but a new machioe which has just been invented is inducing many to do so who have hitherto hated the trouble This machine enables a housewife to mix her dough with only the smallest amount of exertion, and to mix it as evenly on the first experiment as the most exeperienced Lancashire breadmaker, and in leas than hssl2 the ti m>