Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1905. Local and General.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42792, 17 October 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1905. Local and General.

This above all--to thine own self be true. Airi tt must follow as the night the day Ihm cansi not then be false to any man Shakespeare.

The N >vv Zea'anders at Hom 9 will phiy the next match on Thursday, ag inst G ouc s.ors tiro. °II. Bodlev, dairyman, Wellington, was fined £5 and costs at the Police 0 art for having sold three pints of mi 1c which was adulterated by the addition of boracic acid.

Amongst the latest contributions to King Ed ward V . Hospital Fund for London is the sum of £lO5, being the annual subscription of bis Majesty the King, ihe Founder and Patron of the Fund.

A. special meeting of Dmids, Star of Te Aroha Lodge 37, will be held this evening in.the Druid’s Hall at Br, m. All members are requested to' attend, as some very important business wi 1 be brought forwaid,

Smith—“ I heard a good thing yesterd; y,” Brown —“Yes, what is it ?” Smith —Te Aroha is going to have the Electric Light.” Brown—But where is the joke?” Smith—There is no joke, but be sure and get Johnson and Wigg to install it.

Attention is called to the fact that the price of Crease’s Ready Relief Toothache Cure is one shilling, and not eighteenpence as previously d vertised.

The ordinary meeting of the Piako County Council will be held at Mor* rinsville on Thursday nexfcat9.3o p.m. The executive <f the Wellington District Farmers’ Union decided that while they have no wish to oppose the conference they considered the no., tice insufliceDt and the conference premature

With regard to a rumour which is being circulated, we are able to state that there is absolutedy no doubt that Sept. 19th is Messrs Johnson and Wigg’s bonus day.—Advt.

In order to provide further protection to the hum, now becoming very rare, Mr Davey has given notice of an amendment to the. Animals Protection Bill, making it a misdemeanour to offer huia feathers for salel

MrJ. C. Thompson, President of the Employers’ Federation, ii reply' to a telegram from the Premier, has iuformed the latter J hat the majority of the Federation are opp 'sed to the conference at present, The scope is too wide and it is too important to he dealt with summarily. We draw attention to importan eales which Messrs McNicol and Co. re holding in the Waikato. On he 17th they hold their annual bull sale i.t Ohaupo, when 150 well-bred bulls will be offeied, all th’e prominent Waikato breedei s being represen ed. At Ohaupo, og the 31st inst., the firm hold a large cattle sale, when 1200 head will be yarded,, including 450 steers from 2 to 3.$- years old. Ladies should make a point of inspecting the choice stock of millinery at Misses Lavery’s, dressmaker Advt. The Mayor of Auckland has promised £l5O of his honorarium to snbsidise the city bands to play in the uublic parks.

On Saturday September 30th, the Council of Churches set a watch on 51 hotels in Wellington, fi oin nine p.m. to a quarter past ten p. m. in order to ascertain the number of customers of the hotels between the hours men tioned. Only those who came out of hotels were counted and in the time stated 7,335 men and 404 women emerged. Of this total 416 were reported to be manifestly under the influence of liquor, and 67 were described as drunk. A lesuent ot New Tork has offered Professor Beluing 50,000 dollars for imuiediute announcement ofhisremedy for consumption, provided that a corn* mitteo of phys ciaus pronouuce it a success.

A member of Parliament for a Northern constituency has been badgered to tne turning point for subscriptions to this, that, and the other, and at last, the Manchester Guardian says, ho has begun to answer the beggars savagely. Dear sir,” his reply runs, “I was eleced for as member of Parliament, not as relieving officer.”

The Harvester Trust.—A Missouri farmer who is linti'-g Canterbury declares that American furmors dislike the Harvester Trust intensely. The Trust, he says, lays itself out to buy up all small businesses and until it has succeeded in overcoming all com petition keeps prices down as low as possible, but it soon makes up for lost time, and when it has the field, bumps prices up high. *1 tell you right hero,’ he 6aid, ‘ keep it out of this Colony, if you can, for if you do not, you will bitterly regtet it in five years time. I cannot repeat too strongly that it is viewed by American farmers with extreme di>favour.’

One day is n> t always as goo las another, for Tuesday, .Sept. 19, stands but far above the rest as being Messrs Johnson and Wigg’s bonus day.— Advt. .

Mr J. Dixon Ward, who is conducting a campaign in the interests on non-prohibition, has recently delivered a number of addresses in the Thames district, and will deliver a lecture in the Public Hall, Te Aroha, on Thursday evening next, at 7.30 p.m.