LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ohinemuri County Council invites tenders for the formation of Flora and Dulcie Streets, Paeroa. Tenders close at two o’clock on Thursday next. At the wool sales in Auckland on Wednesday prices advanced all round. The Opposition was strengthened as the result of the second ballot on Tuesday, hence the increased price of wool.—Hot Lakes Chronicle.

“ May I be struck by lightning if I am not telling the truth !” said a witness at Beziers. The words were hardly out of his mouth before lightening struck the building, and the witness fell on the floor in an agony of fear. He was unhurt. and, rising to his feet, he confessed himself guilty of the ornue of which he had just accused another man.

At Grossalmerode, v town near Cassel, Germany, a factory has recently bem established for the manufacture of glass telegraph and telephone posts. The glass mass of which the poles are made is strengthened by interlacing and intertwining strong wise threads. One of the principal advantages of these poles, it is said, would be their use in trophical coratrie* where woode i poles are soon destroyed by the ravages of iusects, and where climatical influences are miaous to wood-

It does not appear to be generally known by settlers that under the Stock Act they are liable to a penalty for burying the carcase of an animal in the bed of a creek or water oourse, or allowing it to lie there. Cases of an infringement of this vision occasionally occur in the Auckland district, and one has just lately come under the c tgnisance office of the Agricultural Department, but ths breach is usually due to ignorance of ithe Act rather than to any wilful intent to disregard *it. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Mr Dudley’s tender £545 has been accepted for laying down the wrought iron pipe service from the power-house to the town reservoir. The other tenderer was Mr D. McL. Wallace, £614 ss. Farmers and others would do well to read Mr Tom Donovan’s advertisement iu this issue. Call in and have a look at hie new stock for Xmas presents. Some of his new goods are ’in surpassed. The Domain tea kiosk will be opened from to-day. Mr J. Agnew has a staff of men at work on the extension of the Whitakerstreet sewer.

The following team will represent Te Aroha in the match against Mon n ,ville on Wednesday next, 2nd December : Misses A Brownlee, M. Berwick, E. Hare, Hunt, and Messrs W. Ma ugay, Payz*>, Fred Harris, and R Seccnnbe The team will leave in one of Messrs Johnson and Gwillim’s brakes at one o’clock sharp.

Independent Anti-Trust, all British machines stocked by us. Mowers and rakes,—Wigg & Co. Sick headache usually results from a disordered condition of the stomach and oau be corrected by taking a medium dose of Chamberlain’s Tablets. Try them and be ouuvinced When taken as soon as the first indication of the ai tuck appears they will greatly lessen its severity. For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agent.— Advt.