Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43366, 1 September 1908, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

A boy for the trade is wanted by Mr H. Whitehead, plumber. We regret to learn (hat Mr Jno. Borne is at present suffering from-a slight attack of facial paralysis. The quarterly meeliug of the Ohine muri Licensing Committee will bo held at noon on Wednesday next

A dark roan mare will bo sold in the Pound on Saturday. Monthly meeting of the To Aroh a Band of Hope in Public Hall to-morrow evening.

It will be seen by reference to our Auction Sales that a Stallion Parade will take place on the morning of the next Waihou sale, at 11 o’clock.

The sum of £9OO worth of bad deljfs was written off by the Wellington Hospital Trustees at Tuesday’s meeting

Mr Dalton, head gardener, of the local Tourist Department is at present enjoying a well-earned holiday. Mr Dalton will be absent for several weeks.

The Vomig Peoples’ Literary Club are having an open night on Thursday next, when the “ Midsummer Night’s Dream ” will be road. This Club is proving invaluable to the young people who are priviledged to attend it. Breeders of weight carrying _ banka and remounts should make a note of the laet that the hackney stallion, “ Itingwoud,” will stand at Waihou and travel the surrounding districts, during the approaching season. “ Ringwood ” is rising 5-years-old, is a, dark brown with black points, stands about 16 hands, and is nicely put together, just the sort required by farmers, stable proprietors, and others. He has been shown seven times and has taken six first and one second prize, a record to he proud of. A cob ny “ Ringwood’s" sire sold in Auckland recently for 127 guineas, and was shipped abroad. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure won’t

cure Bad habits or York hams, Nor would it do in Irish stew,

Or hair-wash or in jams ; It won’t cure leather, freckles, warts, For workingmen or toffs, But Woods’ Urea*. Peppermint Cure will euro Your colds and cure your coughs.

Owing to the paucity of attendance at the meeting of the cricketers, called for last Saturday evening, it wus dejided to adjourn the meeting for a week. Co.p. Cooper won the HeatherRoberton Belt at the Rifle range on Saturday last with a score of 59. The next highest scores were : Trooper Horm, 49 ; Trooper .''herev, 45 ; Sergt. Maingay, 41. Sergt. Maingay forfeited hi? 4th prize to Trooper McKenzie, a recruit.

Sittings of the Warden’s and Magistrate’s Courts will be held at Paeroa next Thursday. An / earth tremor, severe in its char acter, occurred at Waimangu on Wednesday morning, at twenty minutes to ten. No indication of the tremor, however, was felt in Rotorua. The medals the Government has had struck to commemorate New Zearand’s change of status from a colony to a dominion will be distributed to the State Schools on Dominion Day- September 26.

The Hon. Secretary (Mr J. G. Beswick) coivenes a general meeting of the Te Aroha Defence Rifle Club to be heldiu the Hot Springs Hotel Sample Room at 7.30 to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. Business of importance.

There were 777 more arrivals in than departures from the Dominion during the month of July. The arrivals totalled 2941 (as compared with 1908 in July last year), and the departures 2264, as against 2119 last year.

We are pleased to learn that the lad Kenneth Atkins, who met with a mishap through falling off a haystack in Te Aroha about a month ago, and who was taken to the Hamilton Hospital is making good progress. Supervisor Johnson is at present engaged laying off a system of drainage and roading of the Waitoa Estate, to place before the Piako County Council at its next meeting, for its approval or otherwise. The Te Aroha Junior Football Social, under the auspices of the Piako Rugby Union, will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 16th, in the Te Aroha Public Hall, when the presentation of the P.R.U. Junior Cup, etc., will take place. A strong Committee are working hard to make the function one of the best held in this district for a long time past. Mr Geo. McKee is the energetic Hon. Secretary'.

Mr Thos. McGloin has decided to reside in Hamilton, having bought property in that locality. Mr and Mrs McGloin leave Te Aroha by train to-day. Mr McGloin arrived hero from Taranaki some years ago, and took up a farm next to Mr N. A. Lamey’s estate, Waitoa. Mr McGloin is a member of the Piako County Council, and during his term of office has proved a man of very decided opinions and strong personality We wish him every success. We hear, upon what we believe to be reliable authority (says the Wanganui Chronicle), that a pair of financial “ experts ” are reaping a rich harvest at the expense of a considerable number of youthful clients. The modus operaudi of these enterprising operators is, we believe, to i make advances to impecunious young men, ivho have, so to speak, “ run out ” pending their next pay day, and to receive from them in return interest equivalent to anything up to 300 per cent. This, if it is true, beats the average usurer out of sight. A most extriordinary thiog was discovered at the New Bath Buildings the other day, says the “ Rotorua Times.” The water from the town supply could not be got to work satisfactorily at one of the douches. At last it was found necessary to investigate the service pipes. Then the secret was discovered. At the bifurcation of two pipes was found a four-pound trout, with its body jammed into each pipe, having got crossed. The marvel is how it got there ; for the town supply of water is derive l from a spring like Hamurana, which gushes light np out of the ground.

So as to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the lodge, the members of the Star of Paeroa Lodge of Druids have decided to ho d a social in the Theatre on the evening of Wednesday, September 23rd. A strong committee has been appointed to make the necessaay arrangements, and it is fully anticipated that the social will be one of the most enjoyable events held for some time past. A euchre tournament will be held in connection with the social, and valuable prizes will be provided for the winners.

When our Volunteers give a social its success is looked upon as a foregone conclusion. We are about to be favoured with another of these events, which takes place in the Public Hall on 21st inst. The advertisement guarantees that first-class music, first-class floor, and a first-class supper will bo provided. What more can anyone wish for. The M’s.C. will bo Q.M.S. Devey and Sergt. Maingay, while Lieut. A. Tattersall has been chosen as hon. Secretary.

The usual monthly meeting of tie Ohinemuri County Council will be held next Thui sday afternoon at two o’clock. The following notice of motion by Councillor Crosby will come up for discussion at tho meeting : —“ That the resolution passed at the last mooting of the Council placing the insurance of tho Council’s employer’s liability risk with the South British Insurance Company, Ltd., be rescinded, and in view of tho fact that the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., is at tho present moment heavily involved in claims for the curront year tho insurance bo continued with that ottico, provided they will ro insure one-third of the same with the S nitli British Insurance Company, Ltd., and ono third with tho Govorn moat Insurance Company.”

A unique Masonic presentation was made at iast.iiight’s mooting of tho New Zealand Pacific I aid go (says tho ” Dominion ”of TwGsaay last), Practically every resident member of the Lodge was present to do honor to R, W. Bro. W. D. Lyon, who had risen from a sick bed to celebrate the twenty-lifth anniversary of his initiation. The Lodge marked the occasion by presenting Bro Lyon with a Past Master’s jewel in substitution for one wh oh was stolen front his residence by a burglar some months ago ; and the individual brolhron mhled a special token of their personal affection by presenting him with an illuminated address in album form, bft ing tho signature) of every member, setting forth his invaluable service to tho craft as an institution, and to the Now Zealand Pacific Lodge in par icular. The opportunity was al-to tal o i to hand to Bro. H. J. Freeman an illuminated and framed address of similar purport, congratulating him upon tho attainment (if tho twenty fifth anniversary of his connection with the Loilgo. The proceedings wore marked with special heartiness.

Mr C. Bray, civil engineer and architect, announces that he has commenced business in Te Aroha, next to Borough Council offices.

The Keegan - Nightengale Dramatic Company stage the military drama, “ The Roll of the Drum,” in the Public Hall on Thursday evening next.

Mr W. Maingay, local agent for the British and Continental Piano Company, has just received a supply of the. firm’s latest illustrated catalogues. Those in search of first-class pianos or organs should call in and inspect the list. The instruments supplied by this firm are well-known and highly spoken of.

The Minister for Lands has informed Mr Poland thae every expedition is being used in regard to the preliminaries for offering the Paeroa township sections for selection, but he states that *• owing to the complicated nature of many of the titles, because of sub - leases and mortgages bring registered against them, the sale caunot take place in September, as originally intended.” It is hoped that it will be held about the end of October or the beginning of November.

About 8 o’clock on Saturday evening last the Te Aroha Fire Brigade rang out an alarm. Before many minutes had passed Captain Pilkington and his Brigade were racing in the direction of the conflagration, Avhich proved to be in the upper prrt of Burgess-street, in a frur-roomed house owned and occupied by Mr McCord. Ere the Brigade arrived the fire had a good hold of the building. The hose was quickly brought to play on the fire, and very soon all was over. The building was insured in the United Insurance office (Mr C. E. Lamb, local agent) for the sum of £75. A portion of the furniture was saved. Mr McCord, senr., is absent from the district, beiug an inmate of the Hamilton Hospital for some time past; the sons occupied the house, and they are unable to throw any light as to tho cause of the outbreak. Mr McCord will be a heavy loser. Had the hose reel been situated in a more favourable spot, doubtless a good deni of time, and perhaps the boils'-, in'ght hive been saved. We trust the Council will lose no further time in acceding to the wishes of the Brigade in this direction.