LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4450, 17 August 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Young pigs are wanted for Messrs Mackie and Sons’ Saturday’s sale.

Piako County Council meet to-day.

The Rev. A. Gow, of Paeroa, will conduct the evening service at St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Te Aroha, next Sunday.

A leading Paeroa business man, in speaking of No-License, stated that his cash takings for last July were higher than any previous month. A lost retriever dog is advertised for.

The members of the Waihou Football Club intend giving the ladies of Waihou a return social on the 25th inst. Mr J. Comerford, hon. sec. and a strong committee have the arrangements in hand. The Te Aroha Hookey Girls “ At Home ’ * takes place in the Public Hall on Wednesday August 26th. A good time is promised, In order to make the evening more sociable, and prevent the "booking” of dances, no programmes will be used. A business man writes complaining of the late hour at which the electric light was turned on yesterday afternoon, nearly 5 o’clock, and too dark to do either shop or office work. The new butter factory at Eureka is nearing completion and is expected to commence working about the end of this month.

On Thursday evening next the Taylor Carrington Dramatic company will make an appearance at the Public Hall, in the sensational Irish drama “Home Rule” or “ The Irish Gossoon.” Particulars, etc., will appear in our next issue. At the Friendly Societies Social Paeroa the other evening a most on" joyable time was spent by members o f the Druids’ and Oddfellows. We notice that in the euchre tournament Mr Wiu. Mclmnan, of the .Loyal Hot Springs Lodge, Te Aroha, succeeded in winning the second prize (a pipe)A wealthy resident of Moscow owns the smallest watch in the world, which once belonged to the late Empress of Brazil. It was made in Geneva by the famous watchmaker, W Zoglin, and cost over 5000 gs. It has a diameter of one-fifth of »n jpch, and is set in an artistically-worked fi?}g.ep.-pipjg, which is studded with diamond#, An authority on all matters connected with physical training says that a woman who wishes to keep well and in good condition should sleep nine hours out of the twenty four, take cold baths, exercise for five minutes each day with light dumb bells, drink ,a cup of hot liquid before breakfast, spend foalf an hour every day in outdoor exercise, the best of bad bargains, and, above all, always keep her temper.

What promises! to be a most enjoyable evening will doubtless be spent by those present at|Montgomery’s New Speciality Company in the Public Hall to-i ight. The exhibi'ion of Professor Parker, the handcuff king, is wcrth travelling miles to see. Our (exchanges all speak very highly of the entertainment.

The funeral of the late Mrs Spence, wife of our respected fellow townsman, took place yesterday afternoon, and was largely attended. The Rev. P. Cleary conducted the burial service. At St. Mark’s Church on Sunday evening special hymns were sung, as the deceased was a member of the Church of England. An instance of the ferocity of the weasel when short of food is given in the Cromwell Argus. A settler’s wife was going tj feed her poultry when she noticed one of the hens rush out of the fowl house with a weasel in hot pursuit. The lady immediately picked up a stone and interfered. The weasel was not in any way daunted, and made at her, jumping on to her dress and getting on to her shoulders before she managed to knock it off. The ferocious little animal once again sprang on to her dress, and it was only on the interference of the settler himself that it commenced to beat a retreat. Then the settler’s dog had an innings, and the weasel’s career came to a Budden end.

Milking on shares would appear to be in popular favour in the Cambridge district (says the Cambridge “ Independent,”) judging by the large number of families and others who go in for dairying on this system. A local settler, who recently advertised for a family to milk on shares, received no less than 40 applications, 11 replies coming to hand in one day. In his case it might be explained the dairy herd is a particularly good one, and that, no doubt, attracted so many applications. Milking on shares in this district is carried out on the thirds principle, the persons entering into an agreement with the owner of the farm for the season receiving a third of the milk cheque and bonus, and also from the sale of calves, pigs, and general products of a dairy farm. Where milking machines are in use, a little less than thirds is given.

That troublesome fit of coughing every morning when you get up, wories you, and you do not rest until you have got rid of the phlegm. Two drops of “ Nazol ” on loaf 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.