Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43118, 30 July 1907, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Watch for announcement of .Economic great drapery and boot sale.The Canterbury Farm Labourers’ Union enrolled 200 members last week. An organiser has been appointed. The annual meeting of the Te Aroha Bowling Club is to be held in the Band Room to-morrow night, at 8 o’clock. Berghofer’s is the best place in Te Aroha for small goods of every description—plain and fancy. —Advt. Mr James Walker, Waitoa, is import ing the Clydesdale stallion, Lord Elderslie, who will be at the services of breeders on tha first week in September. Some light-headed individual went up Whitaker Street on Sunday night firing a revolver, and giving some people a fright. Our great sale still booming, every one astonished at the prices—L. Cullen Te Aroha—Advt.

There was a good muster of the Piako Mounted Rifles at the Church parade on Sunday morning, at S. Mark’s Church, Major-Chaplain Cowie being the preacher.

There was a smile round the Council table last night about 10.45 as different councillors went outside to see if their horses had disappeared across the road to the Hot Springs. Six different styles of sewing machines to select from. Time payment or cash. See Johnson and Wigg’s stock. —Advt

The Auckland hockey representatives played a hockey team from the newlyformed Goldfields Union on Saturday afternoon. Auckland won by pine goals to nil.

Telephone subscribers on March 31st in the four cities numbered as follows : Auckland 2,224, Wellington 2,706, Christchurch 2,162, and Dunedin 1,995. Te Aroha has 34 and six country bureaux.

Men’s pure New Zealand wool underclothing at sale prices at L. Cullen’s, Te Aroha.—Advt.

Mr Gahagan, who has been for many years with Milne and Choyce, Auckland’s leading drapers, has taken over Mr Manson’s drapery establishment of this town, and will assuredly give Te Aroha and surrounding districts the benefit of his wide and up-to-date experience. Morrinsville people took full advantage of Cr Manuel’s presence in the Council. At yesterday’s meeting quite a number of applications were received, and put on to his shoulders to carry out. Cr. Thomas was of the opinion that they were saddling him with too many things to look after. Lace curtains from Is lOd up, splendid value.—L. Cullen’s clearing sale Te Aroha.—Advt.

A petition is being circulated praying Patliament to pass a Bill this session to prohibit the granting or renewal of bottle licenses in any part of the colony. It is contended that the bottle licenses give great facilities for the practice of drinking in the homes of the people, and by women, and thus lead to great evils. For children’s hacking cough at night Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d and 28 6d, —Advt.

News to hand from Kiripaka states that a serious accident happened in the Northern Coal Company’s mine about 1 p.m. on Saturday. A trucker named William Bentall was kaoctred down by a set of empty trucks, and received serious injuries about the head. His hand was also broken. It is not known yet whether he is injured internally, One of the most useful things in the house is to be bought in Te" Aroha at wholesale price, ask Johnson and Wigg.— Advt.

At the County Council meeting yesterday the County Clerk asked for an increase of salary owing to the extra work involved. Councillors all spoke well of Mr Gilchrist’s services, the chairman stating that in legal advice alone the Clerk more than saved his salary, and it was unanimously decided to raise his stipend to £250 per annum, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure fo r coughs and colds never fails, Is 6d and 2s 6d.—Advt.

Our Paeroa correspondent writes : “ The Paeroa railway station is to be still further enlarged. Paeroa is becoming a busy railway junction. Repairs are being made by some of the Railway Department’s staff to the engine shed at Paeroa, The corrngated iron on the shed had been completely eaten away by the fumes from the coal, and the roof is now being covered with rubberoid.” Since Adam delved and poor Eve span, Since first the human race began, Mankind has suffered countless ills, But suffered m 'st from coughs and chills, Foundations they foj; all. disease, But now the hacking cough must cease, For science now makes all secure, With W. E. Woods’ Great Peppermint {/Ur©.

The Yicar of Te Aroha will hold service at Waihou cn Wednesday (to morrow) at 7 p.m.

A meeting of the Men’s Hockey Club will be held in the pound paddock tomorrow afternoon previous to the ladies’ mutcn.

The return hockey match, Waihou versus Te Aroha, will be played in the pound paddock to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 3.30. The Te Aroha team will be practically the same as that against Paeroa. The Council hold their meetings now in the shop between Mr Gilchrist’s office and Mr J. Williams’ shop. The new meeting room is a great improvement, and with a nice fire in the room, the councillors seem loth to leave. There is

givat need for a reporter’s table, as yesterday one of the reporters bad to borrow a table for them to write their reports on. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure, ls6d and 2s 6d Aavt. The following is the annual statement showing details of season’s opera* tions of the Te Aroha District Co operative Dairy Company, Limited, as required by' by-law No. 21 : —Number of

milk suppliers, 94; number of pounds milk received, 10,092,951 ; average per cent, of butter-fat, 370 ; pounds of butter-fat received, 378,112; pounds of butter-fat made, 421,589; pounds of butter made per pound of butter-fat, 1• 11 ; average price received per pound of butter, 10 61; cost of manufacturing one pound of butter, *96 ; average price per pound of fat paid to suppliers, 9‘54. Just landed a big shipment of sewing machines both hand and treadle, ball bearing, and otherwise, no middleman profits, direct from manufactures. Johnson andWigg.—Advt. The “ Observer *’ says * “ Most people will remember Melvin Vaminan, the photographer who set a new standard in panoramic photography in this colony. He was the iudividual who took a photo of Auckland from a masthead. Mr Vaminan is now on his way to Spitbergen as chief engineer of the Wellman Polar Expedition. He is to have the somewhat unenviable job of handling

the biggest airship ever Dune, ana ne expects to take it safely to the North Pole and back. Every man to his own taste, of course. But. under the circumstances it is very doubtful whether the energetic Vamii: m will ever take any more photos of Auckland. People who try to get to the Pole in ballons and airships rarely have to use the return half of their tickets.” THE BEST MILKING MACHINE. Many people are anxious to know which is the best milking machine There is only one ssfe and inexpensive way to find out —-“ Wait and See.’’ It takes two full seasons to prove if a machine is a reliable milker or not. When the fact that it does not effect the cows has been established, it will be time enough to go into the question of which does the best milking. You do not require to wait and see if the “ L.K G. ” is reliable, this was proved three years ago, and hundreds of practical men endorse the verdjet to-day. MacEwans, Ltd., Soje Agents, Fort Street Auckland.