LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43093, 16 May 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A few tons of good carrots can be bought at 35s per ton, on trucks, if required. Mr P. Baine has seventy acres of turnips, twenty-five acres grass, and about twelve acres green oats, ready for grazing in a month’s time. A tender has been let at Dunedin for the erection of a residental college for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The building is to cost nearly £19,000. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and colds never fails, Is 6d and 2s 6d.—Advt. A Feilding advertiser wanted an ofFice boy, but he did not get one application. So he advertised for a girl and made the appointment out of forty-eight applicants. Mr John Gordon, of Eureka, has purchased Mr W. G.Farrer’s property of 65-1 acres, near Hamilton, the price being over £IO,OOO, or a little under £l6 per acre. We only want half a wink, and our old black horse will be at your front gate with our O K Washer aboard. Two washings, a trial free. Johnson and Wigg’s.—Advt. The Rev. G. Smailes, curate of St. Peter’s, Hamilton, was kicked in the mouth by a horse which he was turning out of a paddock. Several stitches were put in, and it is unlikely that Mr Smailes will be able to attend to his duties for some little time.

Mr W. Fuller, of Kevi-Keri, Bay of Islands, claims to have invented a process of growing flax which will produce £IOO worth to the acre, and its market value would be £7O per ton instead of half that amount, which is the sum realised by New Zealand flax generally. Before buying men’s wool underwear see prices at L. Cullen’s Te Aroha. —-Advt. Detective Millar, who was formerly stationed at Thames, proceeded to Fiji by the Talune yesterday, in order to join the Aorangi for Vancouver, to bring back Robert Gibb, an ex-publican of the Goldfield district, who is being extradited on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. Little has been heard of the movement for a crematorium for Wellington for some time, but the question has not been allowed to drop. According to the “Post,” the necessary financial arrangements have been made, and a site at the Karori Cemetery set apart by the City Council. Plans have been prepared for the crematorium, and it is probable that tenders will be accepted at an early meeting of the Council. ■'

For children’s hacking cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is. 6d and 2s 6d. —Advt.

Many curious insurances have been effected at Lloyd’s but surely one that has just been completed in another quarter is the most gruesome and eccentric on record. Some person interested in the Thaw case is anxious to insure the life of Mr

Harry Thaw, and a speculative ' underwriter has quoted thirty ' guineas per cent, against—as it is 'quaintly termed —“a total loss.” , This means in plain language that . the markets against the electrocution ! of accused are 100 to 30—-roughly three to one.

I OK! Yes, there are lots of things . that are OK, but our washing machine beats the lot. Try one. Johnson and Wigg. —Advt. As a result of the mooting on Saturday last, at Tauranga, it has been decided that the Tauranga district shall be represented at the Auckland Winter Show, which is to he held next week. The thanks of the community are unbouhtedly due to Mr R. Badger, who took the initiative in connection with this important project. Eithei Messrs W. C. Berridge or E Howell will have charge of the arranging, etc., of the exhibit in Auckland, and it goes without saying that the select-

ion for this important position could not have been improved upon, as wo have only to recall the many effective exhibits which these horticulturists have shown in local competitions. Mr W. Robinson, grocer, Morning" ton, N.Z., not only sells Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy but uses it. He says ; “I have been troubled several times with influenza, and the only cough medicine that has over done me any good was Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Innumerable times I have

recommended it to my customers and they were more than pleased with the result. I have customers that always keep a bottle of Clmmborlain’s Cough Remedy in the house, and won’t use anything else for their children.” For sale by Johnson and Wigg, Agents. <

Speaking at Edinburgh, Sir Joseph Ward said that New Zealand would stand shoulder to shoulder, back to back, hand to hand, with the Motherland,'and the other States in endeavouring to put the different portions of the King’s dominions into one indissoluble Empire. Dairymen and vendors of milk will need to be very careful in their treatment of that fluid, and their mode of delivery to the public. In a recent police court case at Auckland, several dairymen were charged with mixing borac acid with milk. Though the defendants denied having used any such compound, the an-

alysis showed that as much as nineteen grains of borac acid had been used per gallon of milk. In fining the defendants £6 and costs, the magistrate said that he had no hesitation in saying that borac acid introduced into milk irrespective of quantity, was injurious to the health. A beautiful lot of ladies flannelette embroidered underclothing (samples) at sale prices at L. Cullen’s Te Aroha. —-Advt. The Christchurch doctors are puzzled at the unusually high mortality rate in Christchurch. During the past month, without any epidemic, the deaths amounted to 101 as against G 9 in Dunedin, and 67 in Wellington. One medical man attributes it to the recent dry summer and declares that wet seasons are healthier than dry. His contention receives some confirmation from the fact that, whereas in the first four months of the present year, there were 218 more deaths than in the corresponding period of 1906, the rainfall was four and a-half inches, as against eleven inches for the first four months last year. Everyone is not looking for hard work. A whisper to these, buy, or rather get a trial of our OK washing machine, and sec if this does not suit you. Johnson and Wigg.—Advt. Mr F. 0. Brodersen, of Mauriceville who recently took up land in Canada, writes as follows to Mr Homy Austin, of Eketahuna :—“ We have got a farm of 160 acres now. The Canadian Government don’t sell land, they give it away in homesteads of 160 acres to each male person over eighteen years of age. We are thirty-six miles from the nearest railway station, hut the line is coming out our way next spiing. It is good flat land, with loamy soil and with a stream of fresh water running through it. The C.P. Railway Co. get every second square niile of land for putting the railway through. The Canadian Government as good as gave me £-500 the day I took up my section. We are in the province of Alberta which has the best climate in Canada A very choice selection of the latest styles in dress material just arrived at L. Cullen’s Te Aroha. —Advt. Speaking before the Council of Churches at Dunedin on Saturday, Mr A. S. Adams, president of the Temperance Committee, referred to a certain abuse which he said called for removal at once. Beer shops, lie said, were in existence on the Invercai’gill border, and another brewery was being built on the boundany. Invercargill however, was a glowing example of the benefits of no-license. The Oamaru experiment had been a brilliant success and forty-six prominent business men of Ashburton had signed a statement that trade was never better than at present under prohibition. It was resolved that the meeting approved of the appointment of a no-license committee of Otago, to be appointed at the Dunedin Convention on June 5 and 6 ; also of a proposed petitien to Parliament to abolish the bottle licenses now in existence in Otago, Nelson, and Marlborough. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. Is fid and 2s 6d. —Advt. The declaration of an increase in tho annual bonus to 3s per share of tho

Waihi Gold Mining Company, and a forecast by Mr Mitohelson, the chairman, that the quarterly dividend would bo increased from 3s to 3s fid per share is very welcome news to shareholders hero in the colony. The steady march of progress recorded by this company has been so consistently substantial, that the increase referred to does not come as a surprise. Owing to the large expenditure that has necessarily taken place bofore the mine could be placed upon its present sound outputting condition, an increase in dividends has not been looked for;

but as the company have accomplished great improvements in all departments and a great deal of that expenditure has ceased, it is only natural to expect that the directors will see their way clear to forecast in the direction referred to above. We might add that exteusive improvements are still goingon to advance the milling practice, and the management apparently are leaving nothing undone to obtain the maximum extraction from their mills at the ;

lowest possible cost. MILKING MACHINE TRIALS.

Results of socalled trials are misleading to the uninitiated. Successful exhibitions for a single milking have been given by dozens of machines years before the “ L. K. G. ” was brought out. Where are all those machines now ? How many farmers have rued the day they were tempted to instal a machine after seeing a brief trial ? The “ LawrenceKenned y-Gillies ” has been used night and morning by hundreds of practical farmers for the past two, three, four and even five years, and is the only machine proved beyond a doubt to bo non-injurious to the cows. Write for list of 250 satisfied users in New Zealand. J. R. Mac Ewan and Co. Ltd. Fort Street Auckland An order in time is worth two at a rush. Order those billheads NOW at the 1 Nows Office, . <

A meeting of the Hungahunga Drainage Board will be held at the Board's office on Saturday at 2 p.m. Mr J. Peterson, the well-known horse-trainer, left for Auckland yesterday morning with Waihou, who has several engagements at the Takapuna meeting, and his local friends will all wish him the luck he deserves.

Bro. E. Devey was installed ns District President of the Druids at the meeting of the local Lodge on Tuesday evening. Visitors wero present, from Waihou, Hamilton, Paeroa, Waikino, and o:her Ledges. The afternoon “ express ” from Auckland did not reach here until 5.15 yesterday- afternoon owing to one of the trucks becoming tired and falling off the line, much to the annoyance of the passengers.

The cold weather of the last two days has caused people to realise that winter is again upon us, and the need for more warm clothing, and our readers are reminded of the bargains to be obtained at Iletherington and Co’s the family drapers and clothiers.

The next meeting of the Gymnastic Club is postponed until Wednesda}’, the 22nd, as the club have given way in favour of the presentation to Mr W. Garrett, the Government Valuation Officer of the Piako County, who has recently retired. The following team will represent Te Aroha at Waihou on Saturday afternoon :—Pull-back, P. Hogan ; threequarter, Booth, Lipsey, Brenan ; fiveeights, Hogan ; half-back, Shaw ; wings, McPilce, Wilson, Popple, Willis McSweenoy, Cribb, McKee, Everitt, Jennings. A brake leaves Te Aroha at 2 o’clock sharp. While our reporter waa on his way home from the social last night he saw an hotel window wide open, and going forward* to investigate, was surprised to see five young ladies climb through. They had evidently found the attract 1 ions of the dance too much for them and were thus locked out. Needless to say lie beat a liasty retreat. The mine manager of the Rising Sun Gold Mining Company reports on May 12 The winze has been sunk a further distance of 4ft Gin, for the week. We are carrying about 2ft Gin of the reef with us, the reef continues to look well and colours of | gold can be seen in every breaking down, the country is a little easier and better progress is being made. Complaints have been made to us about the closing of the. railway gates at the station bridge yesterday when the train was clue, thus preventing people from town going out to the country. As it was known that the train was delayed at Waihou, we think the gate should have been left open until the | officials were notified that the train j was approaching, as people had to 'wait fully three-quarters of an hour before they were able to get across. The annual meeting of the Netherton branch of the Framers’ Union was held in the Netherton schoolroom on May 11th, when there was a good attendance. The following honorary members were elected .—President,

Mr Wm. Moore; vice-presidents, Messrs V. Bagnall, E. Buttle, Joel Fisher, E. Stock ; executive committee, Messrs S. J. Laughlin (chairman), J. A. Eeid (secretary), E. Hoappy (treasurer), W. Dennerly, J. Thomas, Walter Moore. The afflicted all fly to it, The suffering cry for it, Sing praises high of it, It can ensure Protection from chills, Chest troubles and ills, Keep down doctors’ bills— Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure-