Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43067, 12 March 1907, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Parliament meets on April 25th. Morrinsville stock sale on Friday A school-children’s picnic comes here from Cambridge to-morrow. Poor old Billy Berghofer-r-burnt out. —Advt. Paeroa Races will be held on Saturday March 16th and Monday 18th.

Mr H. J. Jefferies,, the. Cambridge postmaster, is staying in Te Aroha for a few days. Mr John Dowie, founder of the Church of Zion, has died at Zion City.

Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their annual horse fair at Cambridge on March 20th and 21st.

Through the insurance scandals in America, the value of policies decreased by £80,Q00,000 in 1906. Railway arrangements in connection with the forthcoming races at Paeroa, are announced in another column. We hear that Mr. Geo. Robson has disposed of his business to a Cambridge chemist, and intends going to Devonport to reside. As a result of the complimentary concert tendered to the Paeroa Fire Brigade last week, tHe sum of £lO will be handed to the Brigade. Ohinemuri County Council in another column inserts a notice regarding the Valuation Rolls which are now being compiled.

' Mr 8. L. Bygrave, who until recently was proprietor of the Waihou Hotei, is now installed in a smart hotel in Cambridge, having now been there over three weeks.

Settlers should note that the weekly half-holiday in Te Aroha, will in future be observed on Wednesday in each week instead of; Thursday. * . I In another column the Railway Department announces arrangements in connection with the Ngaruawahia Regatta to be held on Monday next, 18th inst. Father (sternly): “ Don’t you know that King Solomon said, ‘ Spare the rod and spoil the child ?’ ” Robert: “Yes, dad; but he didn’t say that until he was growed up.” The Acting Premier said that the cost of the Exhibition to the colony as a whole would not, he believed, exceed one shilling per head of the population (about £45,000). •_Geo. Cullen’s great cash sale is now on—reductions in all departments, —Advt.

Paris is in a state of darkness owing to the strike at ten electrical power works. These have closed. Several newspapers are unable to publish. The theatres are also closed.

Bombs are found so often at Barcelona that the municipal council has voted a sum of money to purchase an armoured vehicle to be used for removing suspected objects which may be found in the public highway. Captain Crickett and five other members of the Te Aroha Volunteer Fire Brigade departed from Onehunga by the Rarawa on Sunday last, en route for Christchurch. It is stated that in many cases the recent potato crop in the West of Ireland was not worth gathering. The seed obtained from the Government had rotted in the ground and was not suited to the climate of Ireland or its soil.

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

What a difference a shower of rain makes. A well-known agriculturist in North Otago (says a Southern paper) refused to give 5s for a line of 2,000 sheep; within 24 hours’ they were sold at 8s 3d, and within another 24 hours they were sold at 10s.

It is not intended to send a team to Bisley this year, but the Government is said to be giving favourable consideration to a proposal that a team of 20 men shall go to Melbourne to meet a team of English riflemen who are to visit Australia next October.

A sad event occurred on Wednesday last, when Mr Wm. Stanley, senr., of Matamata, was driving to the .Cambridge Show. During the afternoon he was seized with a paralytic stroke and was taken to the residence of his son-in-law, Mr H. Mahood, where he died on Friday morning. The funeral took place on Sunday. Mr Alf. Johnson, proprietor of the well-known Hot Springs Livery Stables, announces that in. future he will be joined by Mr. T. Gwillimin a business partnership. It is intended that every care will be taken to foster the liberal patronage accorded the firm during Mr Johnson’s proprietorship, so that a continuance of public support will be well merited. We are buyers of old and new season’s chaff of first class quality in any quantity. Johnson and Wigg. Advt.

An apparent injustice and grave reflection on the laws of an allegedly democratic country are demonstrated by a letter written by Mr. Henry Brown of Inglewood, in the Taranaki “ News.” The facts set forth are that a widow obtained an order in the Auckland S.M. Court requiring each of her sons to contribute 4s weekly to her support. This order includes the youngest son, a schoolboy of fourteen, who, since the death of his father, had been brought up by an elder brother. As this lad was unable to pay his contribution of 4s per week, he was arrested and is now in gaol at New Plymouth. The writer states that he has written to the Minister of Justice and laid the facts before him. , Please don’t forget we stock grass seeds and will be happy to quote. Johnson and Wigg. —Advt. A Timaru farmer writes to the Herald:—“The deer liberated here some years ago are now a perfect curse to several farmers. I lost a lot of turnips last winter, and they have begun already on the new crop probably owing to the dryness of feed on the range. They will be extra bad this season. I know a case where a farmer had to turn on his sheep in the autumn, as his turnips were so badly bitten by deer that a large amount of them would rot in the winter. A nice crop of wheat is also much appreciated by them. I don’t know whether a man has any claim on the society, but this may act as a warning to those clamouring for such pest?. Immense reductions on dress goods at Geo. Cullen’s sale in Te Aroha. —Advt.

Two old men, th 9 subjects of prohibition orders were recently brought before the court at Auckland on charges of drunkenness, and Mr Kettle, 8.M., recognising the difficulty of dealing with such cases, remanded both men in order to. see if they could be admitted into the Costley Home. The officials of the Home replied that the Board declined to admit the men on. account of their drunken habits, and on the ground of having no power to detain them, as it was never intended that the Home should be a receptacle for men of that class who were uncontrollable, and who only demoralised the other inmates. Mr Kettle said he . quite agreed with the 1 view taken by the Board. I

Thirty acres of good stubbles for sheep feed are advertised to let at Waitoa.

A first-class “Hauraki” bicycle, little used, is offered for sale in another column. It is estimated by the mine managers at Goldfield, Nevada, that the miners steal gold-bearing ore worth nearly £600,000 every year. A witness at the Chiswick Police Court recently stated that he entered a public house to have an “ airship.” Ho explained to the magistrate that this was a special brand of whisky. A juror was excused from service at the Old Bailey recently in a homicide case, because he said he had a conscientious conviction against the imposition of the death penalty. We understand that all members of the Te Aroha Trade Protection Association will be requested to observe Monday next, St. Patrick’s Day, as the weekly half-holiday instead of the following Wednesday, 20th.

We draw the attention of our readers to Kemptliorne Prosser and Co’s new advertisement, setting forth the manures they would recommend farmers to use to ensure successful crops and pastures. Kempthorne Prosser and Co’s manures have now been so long and favourably before the public that comment on their high quality and condition is not necessary here. Farmers will go a long way before finding a manure that will give them more satisfaction than the Westfield.

Great rush for bargains at Geo. Cullen and Co's, sale in Te Aroha. Advt.

The luxurious growth of noxious weeds on Maori lands been noticed by membSrs of the Egmont (Taranaki) Road Board, and at the last meeting it was decided that the Minister for Agriculture be written to pointing out the great necessity for having a short Act passed to compel the Maoris to clear their lands of noxious weeds, as it was of very little use for European farmers to clear their lands if those owned by Maoris were left as now, with seed from weeds there being carried on to adjoining lands.

Interesting facts with regard to the effect of sun spots upon our climate were given by Mr. W. H. Garrison, F.R.G.S., in his lecture at the London Institution. The appearance of sun spots, he said, coincided with seismic disturbances on this planet. These spots were in reality immense holes in the body of the sun, due to volcanic action, and matter ejected into space not only affected the weather of the earth, but interfered with telegraphs and telephones, and had been known to stop, electric tramcars.