LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4487, 11 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hundreds of visitors spent the King’s Birthday in Te Aroha. The Domain presented quite an animated appearance. The croquet, tennis and bowling lawns were fully occupied most of the day. Numbers took launches and spent an enjoyable time on the picturesque Waihou river; others endeavoured to catch the wily trout; while not a few ascended the bald spur and trig station, feasting their eyes upon the exquisite view obtained therefrom; A few from the dry area made exhibitions of themselves by unseemly hehavour in the street, falling prostrate on the asphalt, etc.

Waitoa Drainage Board meet to morrow in the Clerk’s office, Te Aroha.

Piako County Council invite tenders fqr various road and other works.

OnjSFuesday afternoon a number of frieneffy bowling games with VVaibi and other visiting bowlers, took place on the local green, and an enjoyable time was spent. See Mackie and Sons’ adveitisement in Saturday’s issue. Big sale on Saturday at the Mart. of the Te Aroha Tennis Club are reminded by the Secretary (Mr W. Quane) that entries close on Saturday next, 13th inst., for the Racquet Tournament.

An invitation has been received by the local TeDnis Club to attend the official opening of the Waitoa Club’s court on Saturday next, 13th inst. Invitations are out for the opening of tfye Te Aroha Bowling green on Saturday ne*t. Tfce grepr> is in fairly good order, and should the weather proiv favourable an enjoyable afternoon >y 11 be spent, A Dunedin wire says that Mr Geo. Fenwick has resigned the editorship of the Otago Daily Times, and has been succeeds by Mr J. Hutchison. At the Council meeting on Monday Councillor Manuel remarked that his Riding—M°FTHißville embraced .more baa rpadj) than any two Ridings in the County,

An amusing incident occurred recently at a theatre in Lancashire. In a play called “High and Mighty” the heroine has to die, her death being brought about by a villian, who shoots her with a pistol. At the critical moment the weapon missed fire; but the actor was equal to the emergency, and declaimed at once : “Die, tlj.en, the first victim of smokeless powder !”

LET? IT BE KNOWN The widest publicity' ghpuld pe given to the fact that summer diairlicea and dysentery can be cured by the judicious ÜBt i of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea £«medy. It never fails. When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take, which is important when the medicine must be given to small .children. Sold by J. B. Johnson.. Ageijufc. —4-^vt. The' conclusion i? logical. “ It is but an empty purse that id of other people’s money.” In other wqrds it j§ to your advantage to visit o.ur stores when requiring furniture and furnishing ironmongery because we operate with our 05m money, consequently are able to reat you right* h ?.* Johnson.— Advt,

A local resilient (says <he Tamm’ i Daily New<) claims tu have discovered a new and unfailing euro and preventive of potato blight and the mixture he recommends is worth st rting, if only for its novelty. It is nothing more than a coir coction of deck roots. He has found that the water in which these roots have been boiled arrests the'progress of the blight. Last year the only rows of potatoes he saved were those sprayed with the mix' ture, and already this season he has proved its value in a crpp where the blight has just made its appearance. A number of gardeners in in Ins neighbourhood are trying the mixture. It is thought the bitterness of the dockroot has something to do with its service. If this is so it opens the way for further experiment with substances of pronounced bitter qualities.