LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4433, 8 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Government has decided to dispense with the services of a resident medical officer at Te Aroha, and in future a doctor will be subsidised.

The Waitca Drainage Board meet on Monday next.

A meeting of the Te Aroha School Committee will be h-dd in the Scboolro m on Tuesday, July 13i1i.. at ~30. The trains from the Goldfield districts are well patronised, quite a h nmber journeying across to the Waikato Winter Show.

! The annual meetiug of the Te Aroha Presbyterian Church will be held on the evening of Friday, July 10th. The meeting will begin at 7.30 o clock. There are detween 600 ahd 700 unemployed at Broken Hill. The Government ire sending relief, also assistance to the men to leave the Barrier.

Neil Duncan, a contractor, of Elsthorpe, is missing. He is be.ieved to be the victim of the Tukituki drowning fatality. Search for the body continues.

A humerous correspondent notes that Mr. Wragge has not properly defined tins latest disturbance, which seems to have affected the whole dominion and suggests that it be known as the No-License Cyclore ! The To Aroha District Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., invite tenders for carting coal, cream, etc. ; also for the purchase cf buttermilk at the Waihou factory. Tenders close cn Saturday, July 17th. Attention is directed in our advertising columns to Kempthorne, Prosser and Co’s famons special potato manure. It is of high grade quality atid we 1 oe* serves the attention of Te Aroha farmers and others interested in the cultivation of the soil.

A telegram from Wellington states that Gordon Pike, aged 24 years, while running with companions to catch the train at Wellington’s suberbs yesterday suddenly dropped dead, Pike had not been ill previously. He was a healthy young man, one of the town traveller for a local hardware firm. Mr C. W. Garrard, Inspector of Schools, when ou his visit to Waihou, expressed himself as well pleased at the pains that had been bestowed by the Committee in beautifying the grounds. He reported that the schemes of work in the school, and the quality of the work were good, and that the discipline was satisfatory.

A quiet wedding was solemnised at the Presbyterian Church by the Rev. W. C. Blair on Tuesday last, the contracting parties were Mr Ernest Somerville, of Taumarunui, and Miss Mary Hawthorne, a recent arrival from Home. Yesterday at the residence of Mrs Husband, Mr Richard Livingstone, and Miss Lilian Wade were married by the Rev. W. O. Blair. The wedding was a quiet one.

An exchange in reporting a Farmers’ Union meeting Mr. said Tomlinson considered all the Government cared about was to get the property tax on. This, he said, had increased from £l to £7 in the last five years. It would soon be better for the Government to take all the land in the district and let the present settlers take positions as managers of the farms at a salary. They would not then have to work 16 hours a day.

The Black Family (the “ All Blacks from Maoriland ” as they term themselves) will appear at Te Aroha some time in October. The company has just completed a successful tour of South Australia, playing to crowded houses. The company now possesses its own brass band and a portable electric picture plant, generating 10,000 candle power.

The members of the Te Aroha Choral Society have entered upon their second term with renewed vigor, and at the practise on Tuesday evening there was a very good attendance of members, several now faces were noticeable amongst those present. The piece selected for practice, “ The Merry Men of Sherwood,” should meet with a popular receptiou when presented to the public at the Society’s next concert. The Mine Manager of the Rising Sun Gold Mining Company, Limited, reports for the week ending 3rd July, as follows The low level has been extended a further distance of 12 feet, row making a total of 219 feet, and about another 24 feet will finish the present contract. A little better class of country for working has been met with, being a good sandstone with numerous bands of mineral running through it. We understand that an application f r the forfeiture of the west section of the Waihi Grand Junction has been lodged at tbe Warden’s Court. The areas affected iuclude the Waihi Contis and Waihi South claims, which were purchased by the Grand Junction Company a few years ago, It is stated that the application has been made on tbe alleged grounds of non-working. A delightful photographic groun graces the front page of “ Good Cheer ” New Zealand’s Home Journal, a Copy of the July issue of which has reached us. This bright and wholesome journal, which is sent to any address post fi ee for a half-crown a year, is oarticnb.rly enter • taining this month. We notic; that the proprietors a*e now giving their readers their own choice of free patterns instead of sending one ofit free as before, dhis should prove a ve.y popular feature to ladies,

That troublesome fit of coughing every morning when y >u get np, worien you, and you do not rest until yen have got rid of the phlegm, fwo drops of ‘‘Naafi ” on 1 >af sugar, and two or three drops rubbed lightly inside the nostrils on retiring at night and repeated on awakening in the morning, will soon relieve your trouble. “Nazol ”is sold by chemists and stores at Is 6d per bottle containing 60 doses.

I’ve hunted tigers in Bengal, And lions at Zambesi’s fall, The elephant and hippo, too, The rhino, and tbe kangaroo ; But though I am a hunter bold, I must confess I funk a cold, So when I’m bunting, I make sure Against such risks by Woods’ Pepper mint Cure •

Mrs Sarah Mcßurney, Upper Hutt, N.Z., says : “ Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best medicine for croup in children that is made. I have no fear in recommending it, as, after a lengthy trial, I have found it to have no bad effect, Have used it for years, and will have no other. All my friends say the same ” For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agent. —Advfc.

Singers and public speakers who suffer from hoarseness and sore throat will find a great boon in “ Nazol.” Two drops on loaf sugar and allowed dissolve slowly in the mouth, gives prompt relief. The air passages are cleared, and a sense of firmness and strength given to the vocal organa, Nazol ” is sold by chemists aud stores at Is 6 1 per bo‘tle containing 60 doses.

To he comfortable and warm is the way tofennp one’s health. To look after your health means to keep your feet dry and comfortable by wearing only the best boots. A practical bootmaker knows good leather, and as a rule buys only reliable goods, therefore those of our readers requiring boots or shoes should patronise Mr Geo. A. Cornish’s cheap cash boot sale. Mr Cornish, being very much cramped for room, has decided to make a clearance of his new and up-to-date boat stock at ridiculously low prices, in order to make room for new goods coming forward. Mr Cornish will be found in his shop opposite the Domain.

The completion of the Kereone bridge—which has been unavoidably delayed for some months—is not far distant. There is only about a week’s work remaining to finish the job, but the want of the necessary biidge timber — the long leugths three 9x7 41ft. —has held the work back. Advice received by the contractor is to the effect that the “ Thyra ” had arrived in Auckland, and that the timber would be forwarded without further delay. The work is being finished by Mr A. W. Beeson, son of the late Mr Geo. Beeson, the original contractor. Mr W. Dudley, contractor for alterations to the frontage of Mr J. B. Johnson’s business premises, has made a start with the work. When finished these premises will present a very businesslike appearance. We understand that Messrs Thos. McQueen and Chas. Dove have disposed of their To Arohiand Waitoa-properties. As showing the advance in the price of land in the Thames Valley during the last two years, we might state that these properties were purchased for £l2 and £5 per acre respectively, and have just changed hands at £25 and £ll pe • acre For Chronic Chest Complamts, Woods’ Great Peppeim ; nt Cure, Is 6d an 1 2s fid, —Advfc.