Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43313, 14 April 1908, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

There are now over four .-thousand consumers of electric light in Wellington. The Under-Secretary for Lands is calling tenders for the construction of two punts for the Hauraki Plains (Piako) Drainage, Tenders close on the 30th inst.

The Misses Lavery desire special men" tion to be made of the choice winter millinery they are now selling at extraordinary low prices as everything must be sold. Call and see the latest styles.— Advt. \

■ The Bank of New Zealand building is neaiing completion, and presents quite an imposing appearance. It is a pity our liberal Government could not see its way to follow the example set, and erect a new Post Office and . Railway. Station,instead of the present hovels in use. The Paeroa [District High School has been successful in winning (for the third time running) the 'attendance competition inaugurated by the New Zealand Journal of Education for the year 1907 by securing the largest percentage of attendance in the grade of schools with an average of from 150 to 330 pupils. Those desirous of spending a most en, joyable evening, while at• the same time assisting the Field Officers’ salary scheme, associated with the Salvation Army, should pay a visit to the Public Hall on Good Friday night. The entertainment to be provided is one of the best, and the Biorama pictures, comprising 4,000 feet of moving pictures, makes it one of the cheapest shows on earth. An extraordinary story about the flight of a pigeon from New Zealand to Queensland is told by the Gisborne correspondent of an Exchange. “ With regard to the recent Australasian record said to have been put up by a flight of pigeons from Hick’s Bay to Invercargill, another one has now been reported. A Brisbane bpy some months ago stayed with Mr W. A. O’Meara, and, before returning home, gave a pigeon to a son of his host. The bird was confined for a time, and was then realeased. It remained about the house for a day or two, and then it disap < peared. Subsequently, a letter was re„ eeived from Brisbane asking when the pigeon had been realeased, as it had re; turned home.”

At Easter, Wellington will see the largest gathering of Orangemen that has ever been held in New Zealand. There ■ have been in existence for the past thirty|jsix years separate Grand Lodges for the North Island arid the South Islands but, after many debates, it has been decided that it would be in the best interests of the order to join forces and have one Grand Lodge for the whole of the Dominion, under the banner of the Grand Council of Australasia. The consummation of this idea will take place on Easter Saturday at the Masonic Hall, Boulcott-street, Wellington,, when the charter of the new Grand Lodge will be formally presented by the Most Worshipful Grand President of the Loyal Orange Grand Council of Australia (founded as late as 1904), Brother John Wheeler, of Sydney, If a maid loves a man, that’s her business ; If a man loves a nmld, that’s his business If they marry, that’s their business ; And to print their cards is our business. New season’s goods arriving daily ia all departments.—L. Cullen. Some people think that goods marked down in price are “haves,” but very soon that idea is dispelled when they visit Johnson’s Furnishing WarehouseAdvt. .„ I

An old jeudeit of 'I tames, and one who was a bit of a character in bis way, in the person of Mr Robert (“ Bob ”) Turner, died at tne Homes at Tararu, and wa.'s buried yesterday. j The Hon. Mr Jennings, Member for Eguiont, has been paying a flying visit to Te Aroha. He has been staying at • the Hot Springs Hotel, and left yesterday morning by the express for Hamilton.. Mr R. M. Hacket, editor of the Auckland Weekly News, is here on a short holiday, and leaves on Friday for WeL lington, to represent the New Zealand National League. ' A man was. found looking through a window of the Bank of New South Wales at Manilla, New South Wales, after midnight. He was taken to the Police Court, and was subsequently sentenced three months’ imprisonment. The man was on the wrong side of the window. The many Te Aroha friends of Mr and Mrs James Jenkins (of the Thames) will regret to learn of the death of their son Sidney, who passed away at the Thames Hospital on Saturday night. The deceased, who was 26 years of age, was ' held in high esteem, and was a young man of considerable promise, and a large circle of friends will mourn their loss. A writer in a Wellington payer declares that a family of four ad nits in that city kept an account of the total cost of their living for 12 months, and it came to £39, 3s 9d per week each- These people did not eat much meat., but plenty of fruit. The figures did not include house rent.

Entries for the dairy factory produce classes at the National Dairy Show to be held at Palmerston North, are now closed, and show a substantial increase numerically, to the previous years. In the butter division 45 factories are responsible for 96 entries, no factory having more than one entry in any claS3 There are 69 entries in the two export classes. In the cheese division 22 factories are exhibiting with 77 enttries with 33 entries for export classes. The total entries for the two divisions are therefore 173 as compared with 150 last year, and 67 factories from all parts of the Dominion are exhibiting.

A few months ago the King noticed that there was no medal existing that, could be conferred on heroes oi mines who, at the risk of their lives, go to the rescue of their comrades entombed by pit disasters His Majesty thereupon gave instructions that the defect was to be remedied by the striking of a special medal at the Royal Mint. This medal has at length been issued. It is of silver, is attached to a dark blue ribbon, with a yellow edge ; has on the obverse a poitrait of the King, on the reverse a miner rescuing his comrade.! The Misses Lavery, who have been in business in Te Aroha fof some years have decided to retire from business owing to the ill-health of one of the firm. Everything is to be sold within the next few weeks. The stock comprises dress' making appliances of all descriptions, including a first-class “ Singer ” treadle sewing machine, in good order, chairs, tables, etc., also millinery, choice assortment of dress materials, trimmings, etc., etc.—Advt.

We cull the following from the Waihi Daily Telegraph of Friday last —The carting contract undertaken by Clarkin Bros, to-day are reminiscent of the early days of the Ohinemuri gold-field, when metalled roads, over which heavy mining machinery had to be hauled, were an unknown quantity. In those clays, which date back to the nineties, and even earlier, the Clarkins for years practically delivered all the heavier machinery to mining claims, not only \,to places comparatively easy of access such as Karangahake arid Waihi, but away back to claims where only bush tracks, perilous to both, driver and horses, existed, occasionally the trips resulting in the loss of one or more valuable animals. The present. contract which the Clarkins have undertaken calls to mind the resourcefulness of these veteran teamsters. The Waihi-Paeroa Gold Extraction Company, unable to arrange with the railway, owing to the tunnel being inadequate to accommodate the large tubular. metal tanks for their extraction plant in Waihi, entrusted the delivery to the Clarkin’s, who met their first difficulty when they reached the railway bridge. The dimensions of the huge tanks, precluded all possibiliiy of passing under it, but the trouble Was speedily and successfully overcome by sinking the road some two of three feet, and the tanks are now being delivered at the company’s works right up to contract time. The prompt delivery, in the early part of the week, of the new boiler from the Bowentown estuary to the Waihi Beach claim, is characteristic of the carting feats of the Clarkin’s. A solid weight of ten tons, in spite of the mile or so of sandhills, into which the wheels sank axle deep’, and which had to be crossed before firmer sand was met with, was conveyed and delivered at the foot of the Beach claim in four hours. f