Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43065, 5 March 1907, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'This above all—to thine own self be true , And it must follow as the night the day Ihou canst not then be false to any man Shakespeare.

The Ohinemuri County Council meets on Thursday next. The Te Aroha West school concert will be held on Thursday, March 28th in the Te Aroha West schoolhouse. A dance will follow the concert. A conference of foreign missions at Philadelphia has decided to ask Mr Roosevelt, when his Presidential term expires, to preach the Gospel of Christ in the Far East. Great rush for bargains at Geo. Cullen and Co’s, sale in Te Aroha. Advt. Settlers should note that the weekly half-holiday in Te Aroha, will in future be observed on Wednesday in each week instead of Thursday. To-morrow will therefore be the half-holiday. Yesterday morning the Waihr bowlers defeated a team from Thames by 4 points. In the after noon they played Karangahake, and were again victorious by 14 points. Immense reductions on dress goods at Geo. Cullen’s sale in Te Aroha.—Advt. In another column, the Education Board announces the continuance during the coming winter, of the very useful dressmaking classes conducted by Miss Campbell at Te Aroha. and r Waihou. The classes commence a week to-morrow, that i 3 at Waihou, and at Te Aroha the' following day. The Te Aroha classes will be held in the bandr j room. ; • I

Messrs Wilson and Co’s, new lima kilns, near Te Kniti, were lighted for the first time on Monday last, and the consequent increase in the output of lime should add considerably to the industrial activity of the place. The new kilns are capable of burning from 100 to 130 tons of lime per week.

The New Zealand Poultry Journal has now reached its eleventh number and to the poultry farmer, is a veirtable mine of information every time. Signs of improvement and » enterprise are evident on every page, j and we congratulate the promoters lon the steady advance which the ? journal is making, Miss Allen is i the local agent.

f We are buyers of old and new season’s chaff of first class quality in any quantity. Johnson and Wigg. Advt.

The Waikato Central Show, which is to be held at Cambridge to-morrow and Thursday, promises to be a most attractive function, Special train arrangements have been made for the occasion, and besides, holiday excursion tickets being issued from today, a special train on Thursday will enable people from this district to visit the Show and return the same day. In another column, Messrs Hetherington and Co, drapers, announce advice of their first shipment of new autumn goods to arrivfe at an early dale. To make room for these the firm has decided to clear out all short lengths and odd pieces of summer materials at unmerciful reductions. The sale will continue for a few weeks, during which no reasonable offer will be refused. Here is evidently an offer that will cause a vast amount of interest to be centred in Hetherington’s during the coming few weeks.

Geo. Cullen’s great cash sale is now on —reductions in all departments. —Advt. In connection with the Cambridge Show to be held on Wednesday and Thursday next, the Railway Department announces that on the sth, 6th and 7th holiday excursion tickets will be issued to Cambridge from any station, available for return up to Thursday, 14th inst. On Thursday next, a special train will leave Te Aroha at about 8.45 a.m., arriving at Cambridge at 11.25. The return train from Cambridge will leave at 5.5 p.m, arriving at Te Aroha 7.35.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce held recently, Mr.F.E. Jackson moved that the Chamber be requested to cooperate with the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ Club in order to remedy an anomaly existing in connection with fares charged to commercial travellers on the railways. He pointed out that while theatrical companies travelled first-class for sec-ond-class rates, commercial travellers were obliged to pay first-class rates if they travelled first-class. After some discussion it was decided to refer the question to the Council of the Chamber.

The rumour was not correct'; Billy Bergbofer was not drowned in the recent flood, and is still going his rounds as usual. —Advt. Mr J. G. Beswick has had a most enjoyable month’s holiday yachting around the Hauraki Gulf and Barrier. Dr. Kenny joined the party at the end of the first week, but owing to indisposition was landed in Auckland on Tuesday last, and is now, in company with Mrs Kenny, staying at Devonport, but may return to Te Aroha to-morrow. The yacht was one of about nine tons, and_MrBeswick and an was

full of responsible for the navigation. During the whole month the weather was more or less boisterous, but the craft was thoroughly seaworthy and could apparently stand anything. Waiwera, Mahurangi, Cape Colville, Kawau, and the Barrier, were amongst the places visited, the latter being approached on a pitch dark night in dirty weather., In spite of adverse conditions, some excellent fishing, particularly ofkowai, was obtained at times.

After going to the expense of making, don’t spoil your jam for the want of proper covers, parchment at Johnson and Wigg’s.—Advt.

“ Have you being branded? ” This was a frequently heard question at the Masterton Show(says the Wellington Post). The local Agricultural and Pastoral Association, has devoted some attention to solving the problem of parsing season ticket holders through the gates on more than one ’ occasion each day of the show. It had been found that the season ticket was being transferred and the privilege abused. The Masterton Association decided that at this year’s show it would try a system of branding the hand or arm of the passer-out with a rubber stamp containing a large “ A ” in a circle, the mark being made with indelible ink. Ladies found the operation awkward and embarrassing, for the brand did not look pleasant on the back of a shapely hand, it was destructive upon gloves and some patrons preferred the alternative —paying one shilling for re-admission. Men took the branding operation with laughter or with observations by no means complimentary to the association. But it was the enterprising small boy who revelled in the innovation—and incidentally ended the experiment, For one brand on one boy was found to be capable of transfer to seven other boys! Adults also took delight in impressing a transfer of the brand from their own to the backs of the hands of committeemen," just to show ; you, old boy, that you have not solved, your problem!” 1 •/ [

Ngaruawahia Regatta will be held on Monday, March 18th. Waihi hack races on Saturday next. Railway excursions will be announced in Thursday’s issue. The settlers of Whakatane are taking steps to form an agricultural and pastoral association. The acceleration of the mails across the Atlantic to which Mr. Sproul refers may be brought about by the running of the Cunard Line from Southampton instead of from Liverpool. A large number of visitors came to Te Aroha yesterday , by the excursion from Waihi. Mr Pearson of the Karangahake paper called at this office and states that the proposal to form that town into a borough is meeting with great favour amongst the inhabitants.

There was great excitement over the London County elections. The municipal reformers hired 350 gramophones, with records of cpeeches, and sent men to work them in the streets.

News has been received in Adelaide that the judging for the Christchurch Exhibition is not in a satisfactory state. The representative of the colony is therefore consulting the Vine-growers’ Association as to whether it is not advisable to withdraw South Australian wines from competition. Frequent, rapid, and ■extreme changes in the temperature have filled the hospitals in Russia with patients and engendered a new form of influenza, which affects only one side of the body and the head. One eye swells, one side of the face twitches convulsively, one arm and one leg are temporarily paralysed. The physicians have never observed this form of the malady before.

Waihou is not content to remain long in the wake of progress, and an advance step is now to be made by the formation of a branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation" With a view to putting the idea into effect, a meeting is called for Friday next at 8 p.m. in the Waihou Public Hall, at which the formation of the branch will be carried out. All who are interested should make a point of attending. As it was to be expected in face of the strenuous competition, the British Cunard Company is not for long to be in possession of the two largest liners in the Atlantic trade. Huge as are the Lusitania and the Mauretania with their 32,500 tons and their 70,000 indicated horsepower, the Hamburg-American (German) line has resolved to construct a vessel on a still more mammoth scale. Addressing a large meeting of

men at Coventry on the ascent of man, Sir Oliver Lodge contended that the human race was only just beginning to realise its power of conscious control, and that instead of being effete and worn out it was really in its infancy. .The most promising sign of the times was the interest being taken in the solution of the problems for the improvement of the race, mentally, morally, and physically. Please don’t forget we stock grass seeds and will be happy to quote. Johnson and Wigg.—Advt. With a view to furthering prospecting in the Te Aroha district, and on the “ Success ” claim in particular Mr R. Jenson, who has now acquired the sole interest in this claim from Mr McCullough, is now canvassing the business people of Te Aroha with a view to raising a sum of about £2O with which to purchase a single stamp crushing : plant, to.be erected here for the purpose of thoroughly testing quartz from the

“ Success ” or other claims m the district. Mr Jenson claims that the “ Success ” claim has already been proved capable of being worked profitably. Swindon (England) has a dog which, a contemporary states, took out its own licence. With a letter in its mouth the animal went up to the counter of the post office. When, the envelope was opened by the clerk it was found to contain the message, “ I want a licence,” for which the requisite amount was enclosed. While the

document was being made out the dog barked and dashed about, but as soon as the license had been sealed up in an envelope and placed in its mouth it trotted away. It was expected that after the •sultry state of the atmosphere yesterday, rain woultj fall, and prophets were not mistaken. At sunset, heavy clouds began to move from all directions towards the mountain, their long, straight lower edges in-

dicating tnat iney were uuaigcu with electricity, and from which a thunderstorm might be expected. Then at 7 o’clock the rain began, and came down in torrents. There was only one peal of thunder, which was scarcely enough to clear the atmosphere. This is how the Whakatane paper describes the present state of the town We are content to endure the same primitive means of disposing of our refuse that prevailed with our forbears. Dirty cess pits that are covered up as. soon as they are filled, garbage and refuse thrown about promiscuously and allowed to rot. By way of variety the river bed is used as a repository for storing filth. As a

natural consequence of all this carelessness the town flats and the river beds are rapidly being loaded up with fever germs. Persons have only to walk along the Strand at low tide to judge for themselves. As we heard a person bluntly remark,“The stench was enough to knock a horse down.” And yet every day we see children playing and paddling in this accumulation of filth.

It is<said now that it’ will take San Francisco 20 years to recover froth the effects of the earthquake, Says the Waihi Times of to-day : “ A disgraceful state of affairs occurred on the railway between Te Aroha and Paeroa last Dight. *The afternoon train deft Te Aroha at the correct time, but when about five miles on the road the steam gave Out and the train had to he stopped for some considerable time to enable the engineer to get up steam. The result was that the train arriving in Waihi at 5 10 was empty and the later one packed. Auckland shopkeepers say that shoplifting has been promoted from a fine art to a science, and reckon that probably not one half per cent- of the offenders meet with even an accusation. Of cource, there are exceptions. Recently, a bright-eyed girl in a big drapery shop saw a lady, who moves on the very roof of society, annex a six-penny cake of soap and drop it into her parasol. The young assistant fixed on her the bright accusing eye, and the shoplifter fled, panic-stricken, leaving 6s 9d change on the counter. In another Queen-street shop an assisttant, who was making out a bill for 2s 6d for a customer who had tendered him a five-pound note, saw the purchaser stuff ; a three-and-sixpenny chiffon scarf up her jacket sleeve. He said agreebly, but firmly: ‘ 1 Buttons, l s gloves Is 6d. And about that scarf you’ve got up your ' sleeve ? Suppose we say £4 17s 6d and avoid further trouble. That makes it jus 4 right. Thank you !” Then the lady, who is also on the roof of society, fled screaming, hysterically calling out "Fire.”