LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4439, 22 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rev: W. C. Blair will conduct service in tbe Waitoa Cliurch on Sunday morning July 25th. A committee meeting of tbe Te Aroha Bowling Club will be held in the Tourist Agent’s office, at 8 p.m,, on Saturday, July 24, 1909.

Service will be conducted at Waihou on Sunday at 2.30 by the Rev. A J. Reed.

The Choral Society was well attended last night. The members are making great progress with the new music under Mr. Rayner. The orchestra is also increasing in number. Several new faces and instruments were present also.

The Woodville Examiner vouches for the correctness of the following statement : “He is only a small farmer, and cnly milks twelve cows, yet his cheques for milk and pigs totalled £176 14s 8d for eleven months ended the 30th June last. This pans out at exactly £l4 14s 7d per cow, It costs no more to feed a good hen than it does a bad one. Therefore poultry fanciers, and those who require fowls of a reliable laying strain, should call on or send word to Mr John Mace, of the Te Aroha Poultry Farm. Mr Mace knows his business, and buyers should take advantage of his experience. Read his new advertisement in this issue

Owing to some misunderstanding the Te Aroha district did not accept any of the tenders for building the lOkauia creamery yesterday. In all probability a decision will be arilved at to-day. The public will be pleased to learn that a start has been made by the Tourist Department to improve the condition of the track from the Domain grounds to the top of the Te Aroha mountain. Doubtless this will be much appreciated by the visitors next summer. The many. Te I Aroha friends of Mrs Golds worthy,'wife of,Mr Thomas Goldsworthy, will regret to learn of her death, which took place at her late residence, Kingsland, Aucklaud. on Monday last, aged 52 years. iThe deceased lady resided in this district for some years, and was much respected. The funeral took place yesterday.

A Brass Quartette consisting of the following Te Aroha Bandsmen: Messrs Donovan, L. Buchan, G. Frith and W. Mclnman intend taking part in the musical competition to be held at Hamilton next month. Doubtless these gentlemen will give a good aocount of themselves. Mr. Buchan has also entered for the cornet solo competition. We wish them every success.

The Mine Manager of the Rising Sun Gold Mining Company Ltd., reports for the week ending l'th July as follows : The contractors have now completed their work having driven the low level a total distance of 247 feet. The country is still sandstone with mineral veins running through it. A coni ract for a further 200 feet of driving has been let and work will commence on 20th inst.

No. 8. Spring, more favourably and commonly known as the Octagon, is once more in great favour with old habitues. Repairs to the damaged structure have been carried out, and two neat and strong bib-cocks have replaced the little ornamental taps that hitherto gave such a small flow of water, The result is j;hqt now the water may be turned off and op at pleasure the flow is greatly increased and the water is much hotter.

A yonng man named Archie Challinor in the employ of the Australasian Fruit and Produce Company, Limited, Sydney, one morning last week received by post a packet. Taking off the outer cover and untying the string, he raised the lid. The instant the position of the lid was disturbed a click was heard like the snapping of the hammer of a revolver. The next moment the lid was off. a piece of paper removed, and Challinor found himself gazing into a heap of black powder sufficient to fill about three egg cups. Screwed to the side of the box was a set pf poryerfpi leaf springs, connected with a shayp-pointed hammer. The hammer had been held at ‘‘full cock 1 ’ by a small steel pin, fastened to the lid of the box- The moving of the lid thus released the hammer, allowing it to fall heavily on the cap in the cut away end of a gun cartridge, which was fixed firmly in the partition between the powder and the machine. The open end of the cartridge case was buried in the powder. Luckily the hammer missed the centre of the cap by about the thirty-second part of an inch. Had it struck full in the centre the result would in all probability have been serious, Challinor can give no reason for the affair. Up knows of no one likely to do him injury. The police are investigating the matter, but so far have obtained no clue.