Local and General.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42793, 19 October 1905, Page 2

Local and General.

To-night, in the Public Hall, Te Aroha. Mr Dixon Ward will lecture on “ The truth about No-license,” Ladies are specially invited. Questions will be answered and admission will be free.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Piako Ratepayers’ Reform Association will be held in the Council Chambers at Morrinsyille at 2 30 p.m. to-morrow, the 20ch inst. The business will be general.

On Saturday next, the Karangahake Rugby Union will hold their sports at Mackaytown. Besides various handicap footraces, there will be a footballeis’ race, friendly societies’ race, and youth#’ bicycle race. A cricket match, Married v. Single, played at Waihi on Saturday last, resulted in a win for the Single players. Messr Hethenngton and Co’s monthly replace advertisement appears in another column. The Premier states that if school books for pupils of the primary schools are supplied free, as is done in some countries, this would involve a large initial expense —probab'y, say about £3o,ooo—and annual expenditure afterwards of £SOOO to £IO,OOO to rep ace woro out books, and keep the books up-to-date, The bowling green at Paeroa is to be officially opened on Saturday next. Speaking at Foxton (says the Manawatu Standard) Mr Oswald Gtrdner, a candidate for the Manawatu seat, brought forward a new argument for freehold, viz., that the lease-in-per-petuity did not pay. He showed that the Government received 9£d in the £1 as rent for the land held, under lease-in-perpetuity but of this they had to pay 9d iu the £1 to the foreign moneylender for the money borrowed to resume the land. The Government also lost the land tax of Id in the £1 on the leased land. Thus, for a farm of 500 acres the Government received out of the rent £4 3s 4d. On a similar freehold farm it received £7 5s lOd by way of land tax. If the land increased in value to £6 per acre the Government received from the leasehold £6 5s and from the freehold £l2 10s Od,

It is reported that a new departure will be taken this season in collecting the agricultural statistics, the intention being to obtain the information required through the medium of the Post Office, forms for the returns being sent to each settler to fill in. Rays the Coromandel Times, a fei'.ure s :it wn-. Mil miss d yesterday over a technically. The plaintiff was, however, not discourage I, he jumped a horse and set about pegging out the ground, and haR since '/applied fojritas abandoned by operation of law. The new application will (flme before the Court on Noveub >r 8. Ladies should make a point of inspecting the choice stock of mill nery at Misseß Lavery’s, dressmaker Advt,

J Mrs Harrison Lee, the able speaker ) n the cause of No-License, will ad dress a meeting in the Theatre to-night at 7.30.

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

Germany is not a rich nation, yet she endows her universities in a manner which puts to shame the paltty handfub of coin that the English Treasury do es out to higher education. And not only is the Government liberal, but it is impartial, and places no restrictions on the recipient of its bounty. Such liberality of the state enables the university to throw open i‘s portals to students at surprisingly low rates. One may, for instance, pay five shillings for a course of twelve lectures by an expert of Europe in fame.—Nelson Mail. The annual reports of the various New Zealand clothing Companies have disclosed an unsatisfactory ondition, stocks being unusually heavy are pushed market at cutting prices. Hatrick of Kaiopoi House, Te Aroha is offering special g 'Oi value in men’s sac suits... AU siz»s in Boys’ and Souths’ gaiments replete in great variety. Special job lines in men’s trousers ara worthy of attention. With regard to a rumour which is being circulated, we are able to state that there is absolutely no doubt that Sept. 19th is Messrs Johnson and Wigg’s bonus day.—Advt. Anyone reading the new electoral roll just'being printed cannot fail (says the Oamaru Mail) to bo struck with the amusing way in which married worren are described. One “is a wife,” her next door neighbour is only “ married,” a third is, a mother. There are single ladies who are “ household durieß.” One man is a grocer’s assistant,” but his blood relative, who lives under the sarae ( roof is a “ gentleman,” with no occupation, and the father of the two is a common labourer. However, there are very few gentleman on the roll—half a dozen perhaps. It is a fine distinction. This is democracy. Smith—“ I heard a good thing yesterday,” 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. /