Local and General.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42799, 31 October 1905, Page 2

Local and General.

The Te Aroha Jockey Club prive - leges will be put up for sale at Messrs McNicol’s sale at Waihou on Nov. 1 Otb, at 12 noon. It is expected that keen competition will result, owing to the increased facilities afforded by the Wailii Railway. The Union Co’s s.s. Waikare will leave Dunedin on January 6th, for the summer pleasure cruise around the West Co ist Sou ,ds.

Bandsmen and the public generally will be pleaded to learn thofc,the music for the quick-step compe ition at the North Is.and Brass B inds’ contest, to be held sh -rdy at Hawera, is thee >mposrion of Mr C. Trussell, conductor ~f the Federal Band, Waihi. The title of ,he piece is ‘‘ Mount Egmont.”

Mr A. Louis Smith, the Waikat# representative of the popular A.M.P. Society is at present stopping at Mrs Heatlicote’s Temperance Hotel, To Aroha, where lie will be pleased to meet all interested iu life assurance and explain the many advantages offered by the Society. An unclaimed horse will he sold by auction at the Public Pound to-mor-row, Wednesday, at 12 o’clock. Tho Kaiser at Dresden, in reply to the burgomaster’s we loom) said his endeavour would be cons an tly directed to the maintenance of peace anil exerted with his whole labour and strength to that end. One curious fact about lunacy in Birmingham, said Councillor David Davis was this:— That until 1889 the proportion of male udmissions was less than the female, but since that year tho male admissions had been greater than the female; in other words tho men drove the women mad up il 1889, aud tho women had their revenge over since. The T< mi-t D pertinent lias been advised of the advance on New Zealand of two young ladies in bio itners ! These are Miss Lovelia Conley mid Miss Anna Pinch, two lady journalist, of Chicag >, who have set out on a five years’ tour of the world, attired in black silk bloomers and tailored cravenette suits. They bad reached San Francisco last month; and from there were to sail for the Hawaiian Is’ands, the Philippines, Borneo, Australia apd sew Zealand.— Freelance*

What is in a name ? A good deal. Well the name you should have ou your bike is Pioneer. Johnson aud Wigg are stocking the line. Advt.

To produce a pound of butte- on the Argo 1 bin* ranch. 10 English qu.rtsor about 25lbs. of mi’k a o required. The cows in the dairies are a cross between the shorthorn and the “ orioila,” the half wild native animal, and 'hose yield about 5J quarts a day, rem titling in milk for about 210 days in the year. Three c ws wi’h their calves require about eight and one third acres of pasture. In Buenos Ayres many of the small dairy owners drive their cows about the street and milk them at the doors of their customers. Othor owners do not take their cows out, but keep them in prominent places in the city ind milk them to order, so that their patrons can see what they are getting. Those having old bicycles, either ladies’ or geut’s.. can get good value for them by buying one of our English Pioneer up-to-date machines- Taken as part payment. Johnson and Wigg.—Ad A general meeting of ratepayers of the Waitoa riding of Piako Couuty, will be held in the Phoenix Hall, Morrinsville, on Thursday 2nd prox. at 7.30. On Monday the 6th, a similar public meeting will be hell at Waihou in the Public Hall. These meetings have been arranged by the Pidko Ratepayers’ Reform Association for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of their candidates for the coming County election Chaff, oats and all home feed being such a trememlms price, a bike not requiring any of these why n t go in for one. Johnson and Wigg have a good stock and will sell on any terms. Advt. From New York we get the follow*, ing characteristic vignette: —“The only piece of Yankee sharpness I observed was the following : A horse had dropped down dead in the street. The fift'*rnoon was too far advanced to admit of its removal that evening. Five minutes afters a r ds the carcase w.is completely p'asteted over with electioneering placards.” Lidies should make a point of inspecting the choic u stock of millinery at Misses Lavery’s, dressmaker Advt. Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P., replying to birthday congratulad <t s from Workington admirers on entering his seventy seventh year, says : ,; I should like to grow younger instead of older, but that does not seem to be in the order of things, but old or young, and old and young, we must do the best part we can f.«r progress ” A phot graphic camera 70 feet in length was used to obtain a photograph 34 inches square of the recent eclipse of the sun.

A cricket club has been formed at Xfauawaru, aud has already a good number of members. The gear has been orderel and matches arranged, which will be played on Mr Pa't’s field, where a good level pitch has been secured. New members are invited. THE SYMPTOMS OF RHEUMATISM. The symptoms of rheumatism usually leave no doubt as to whar. is the matter with the sufferer, Sharp pains are felt in the wrist, knee, elbow, ankles or other joints, which are usually hot, red and swollen. The pain often shift, from one joint to another—one day it may be the hand, the uext, perhaps, foot is seized with lance-like pains —while the part first afbeed may be much easier. No matter how severe the symptoms of rheumatism, Rheuuio will completely banish them. Hundreds of well-known people testify its wonderful power of conquering rheumatism. Price 28 6d and 4s 6d, from all chemists and stores