Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43080, 11 April 1907, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 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.

Matamata races on Saturday. The band contest at Thames will be held on November Bth and 9th. A young man is wanted for a Matamata bakery. A chrysanthemum show will be held at Cambridge on Friday and Saturday, 19th and 20th, A winter show is to be held at Hamilton in the new horse bazaar now being erected. A mail for San Francisco per .Sonoma closes at Te Aroha at 11 a.m on Monday next, 15th inst. The Minister for Lands, ( Hon. R. McNab) will not visit Te Aroha during his present trip. The Oddfellows are giving a “ pound ” social on election night, 21th inst.

Poor old Billy Berghofer—burnt out. —Advt. The Vicar of Te Aroha will hold service at Mangaiti on Sunday at 11 a.m. The New South Wales Government is considering holding in Sydney in 1910, an international exhibition to cost £300,C 30.

In another column appears a list of times fixed for the meetings of householders to elect local school committees on Monday, April 22nd. We understand that Messrs Geo. Lovegrove and F. Hubbard will be candidates at the forthcoming election of municipal councillors. The Waihi Presbyterians have unanimously agreed that a call be given to the Rev. Catherwood of St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland. Clearing out price on floor covering to make room for big shipment arriving shortly. Johnson and Wigg. Advt, A correspondent states that plans are being prepared for the installation of additional machinery at the Okere power-house which supplies Rotorua with electricity. Mr Sidney Gunn of Matamata, has entered a pen of silver wyandottes in the North Island egg-laying competition to open on May Ist at Cambridge. Each of the four smokestacks of the New Cunard liner Mauretania will be as high as a fifteen storey building, and wide enough for four teams abreast to drive through. From the report of last night’s smoke social given by the Rifle Club it’.will be seen that Mr Somers has announced his intention of again offering himself for the office of Mayor of Te Aroha. For children’s hacking cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is. Gd. —Advt.

Mr Joseph John Gregan, the con- , tractor who died from heart-disease J at Lower Hutt on Monday last, was recently the purchaser of Mr Reid’s property at Matamata. Deceased was only twenty-eight years of age, and had been married eighteen months. Mr Allen Bell, of Hamilton, leaves for the King Country in a few day’s time, and will address meetings in the principal centres of that district, on the Land Bill. He will also visit the Tauranga district and in company with Messrs Philips and Flanagan of the Auckland Farmers’ Union, will subsequently address meetings at Hamilton and Cambridge. •Bee-keepers in the Cambridge district report that, owing to various causes, the yield of honey this season was a good deal below that of last year, —in fact, some local apiarists state the pa r ’t season has been the most unfavourable for them for twenty years, and yet a bee-farmer a few miles from Palmerston will be able to gather from twenty to twentyfive tons of honey this season, while last year, on account of the inclement weather, he was only able to get a small quantity. Grass seeds going out fast, samples and price not to be beaten at Johnson and Wigg’s—Advt. A butcher in the county of Hertfordshire, England, has been fined £5 with £25 costs, for supplying to the local asylum authorities American mutton labelled “ New Zealand It appears that six carcases had been sent to the asylum under contract, and bore labels bearing the name of Nelson Bros., Gisborne, and were contained in lamb bags from a Canterbury firm. It appears that the deception was practised owing to the fact that New Zealand mutton had risen in price and the firm was losing on the contract. That barbed wire must not be used on the outside of fences is a rule familiar to residents in most districts. The Lower Hutt Borough, however, goes further than this, and nossesses a by-law prohibiting the use of barbed wire even when attached to the inside of the posts. Mr Virtue, of that district has felt the pinch of the by-law, and recently raised objections, which were submitted to the Municipal Association’s lawyers for advice. The advice is to the' effect that the by-law is quite valid. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is Gd—Ad. The printing of the Borough of TeAroha District Electors’Roll for 1907-8, which was entrusted to the News Office, is now complete, and the rolls are in the Town Clerk’s hands All who are qualified to vote should

At the Tauranga Rifle Meeting held last week the Tauranga Mounted Rifles won the Nathan-Hancock Cup by 22 points for the second year in l succession. The Te Puke team were the only opponents. After considerable discussion the Thames Hospital Board on Tuesday, by a majority of one, dropped the proposal to vote £I,OOO for the erection of a sanatorium for consumptives and sufferers from miners’ complaint at Thames. A Southern paper has been shown the account sales of a parcel of oats sold by an Edendale settler. It was : a paddock, yielding 404 1 bushels of grain. This works out at a fraction over 95 bushels to the 1 acre. ; 1 He was the cotter’s only child, 'They called him Little Jim, |- And Death with scythe and hour glass i had j i Called round to wait for him ; j 'The mother wept, the father sobbed, . \ j For death looked very sure, _ •, Bui Little Jim’s still in the swim Through Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, j

make a point during the next day or two, of inspecting the list to ascertain if their names have been included. Previous to the coming election, no further alteration can be made in the roll, except by appeal to a Stipendiary magistrate, who shall hear and determine the appeal, and may order such alterations in and additions to the list or roll to be

made as lie thinks just. Mr G. W. Basley objects to time being' wasted at committee meetings of the Auckland Harbour Board. He referred to the matter at the Board s meeting on Friday afternoon. He said it would be well if some system of closure were adopted, as at the committee meeting the day before one gentleman had, he considered, wasted fully an hour. One would have thought that member was the chairman, the way he conducted himself. While the gentleman knew a great deal, and furnished a lot of information, still he amplified it too much. Mr J. B. Macfarlane said he quite agreed with Mr Basley that considerable time was wasted. Mr Basley said he thought there should be a fiveminute limit. He would probably give notice of motion on the matter. — “ Star.” '■-■Algerian seed oats now to hand, buy early and save money. Johnson and Wigg. —Advt. m The “ Dunedin Star ” slates that the Labour Department is quite unable to cope with the demand for men existing throughout the colony. This has special reference to bush men and roadmakers, of whom they cannot secure enough, although wages are 9s per day of eight hours. The demand for these comes chiefly from the North Island, the demands of the Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Taranaki, and Wanganui districts being the most urgent. Even offers of “£2 a week and found ” for bushmen remain unapplied for. In view of this scarcity of what may be termed “ skilled ” unskilled labour, there is

every possibility of an officer of the Labour Department being despatched to England to select during the next 12 months labouring men of the class required who are willing to emigrate. “NEW” MILKING MACHINES When you see a milking machine advertised as being “ new ” or “ improved,” avoid it as you would an ox with a whisp of straw on its horns. The only safe machine is the ” old ” ane that has been in practical use for at leasttwo years. New machines lave all their troubles before them n the shape of risky, and often costly experimenting. The “Lawrence-Ken-ledy-Gillies ” is the first, and the mly practical milker, having been in laily use for five years. The valuable md unique principle of its success is folly protected by patent rights, and my “ improved ’’ machines are either nfringeraents or else do not embody he indispensable principle covered ay the Gillies patents. Agents J. B. flacEwanand Co Ltd.'; Fort Street, Auckland.

We hear that Mr Toomey, senr„ is lying dangerously ill at his residence in Lipsey-street.

Mr A. Myers, the present Mayor of Auckland, is likely to have a walk over.

For the Mayoralty of Hamilton, Messrs J. S. Bond and C. J. U. Barton have announced themselves as candidates. The renowned contralto, Te Rangi Pai, appeared at Waihi last night preparatory to a tour through Australia to Europe..

It is perhaps, not generally known, says the Taihape Post, that the North Island Main Trunk line extends 34 miles north of Taihape. The rails are now within a stone’s throw of Ohakune. The engineers at both ends are prosecuting the work as expeditiously as possible. The silting of the Ohinemuri River is engaging the close attention of local bodies just now. A letter from the Waikato and Thames Valley Reclamation Association, received by Mr Moore, Chairman of the river silting committee at Paeroa, states that Paeroa has the entire sympathy of the Association, and the question will be discussed at a large representative gathering to be held at Te Aroha shortly. The Thames Valley Farmers’ Union at their annual meeting also appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister of Lands, on the occasion of his visit to Paeroa, and point out to him the results of the tailings and other mining debris being dumped into the river. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and colds never fails, Is 6d. —Advt.

The paddle steamer Te Aroha, which foundered last week after leaving Auckland bound for the Waikato, was a vessel which in her time earned a large amount of money for her owners, and was at an earlier period of her existence, closely connected with this district. She was built in Auckland about thirty years ago for the Thames pine trade, and was employed in it for nearly a quarter of a century. In the early days of the Upper Thames goldfields she carried thousands of men to the gold rushes, and several times she was chartered by the Government for special service in connection with outbreaks amongst the natives in various parts of thellauraki district.