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Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 159, 19 August 1892, Page 4

A meeting of the local Orange Lodge will be held at the usual time and place tomorrow evening. Rumour saith that one of the young men in these parts is threatened with an action for breach of promise unless he consents-to act fairly-and make the only reparation now in his power. The Post Office Department invite tenders for several mail services iu our districts as may be seen by advertisement in another column. Among them are several services which some of our readers might take up without great inconvenience. The Conterbury Rugby Union have very wisely resolved to ask the ether Unions whom their representatives} are r about to visit not to entertain their emosen players at Smoke Concerts and Dinners, The Aratapu Minstrels intend to keep in practice and give an entertainment every five or six weeks. There is some talk of them going to Pahi shortly to give the people there a treat. Lady Henry Somerset says in a private letter : “ There is no day that I more desire to see than the day that will give woman her right to vote. ‘ She who is asked to people the world should be law-giver as well as life—giver.” The Kauri Company’s vessels Grassmere and Killarney are now both in port, the former loading at Aratapu and the latter discharging coal at Kopuru. The two vessels were sailing up river on Saturday when the Killarney struck mud below Tik—inui andslie remained fast for some days. David Donovan, of Helensville, butcher, has’sought the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. His liabilities amount to £273 10s Id of which £9O was an old private debt, and £IOB was due on account of promissory notes endorsed by him lor the accommodation of a relative. His onlyasset consists of book debts estimated fo yield £IOO. Robert Barlow occupied the Aratapu Hail on Friday and Saturday evenings last

week, ancl was favour, d with verj fair audiences. His enter:aimnent, being a one man show, has rather much of the sameness about it but for ali that it is well worth seeing and hearing. Mr Barlow has some very good songs which he gives forth in a most excellent manner. He performs in Helensville tomorrow evening and Monday,

A substantial reduction is abonfc to be made on the rates of the cable between Australia and this Colony. In the case of English telegrams, the new rate will be 5s 3d for every ten words, instead of lOs 2d, and for Australian messages, 2s for every ten words, instead of 9s 6d. To Mr Ward, our Postmaster-General is due the credit for bringing about such valuable concessions to our commercial world;

The beautiful spring weather of the last two weeks has given gardeners a good opportunity of getting on with their work and many have not been slow to take advantage of it. The Aratapu garden, whicfl took the first prize offered by the Kauri Timber Company two years ago, is evident ly not going to he neglected because of the departure of its then owners. Mr Robert Barker with the aid of skilled assistance lias the garden well advanced and it will again be the garden of Aratapu.

The Baehelors Ball at Dargaville on Friday evening was very successful. There were over two hundred people present and everything passed off’ pleasantly. The arrangements had been made regardless of expense and anyone looking into the Hall could scarcely believe that outside people were complaining of dull times. Messrs Hunter; Eormer and EaTy of Auckland supplied the music, and the catering, which was of the very best, was in the hands of Mr McLean. The dresses were expensive and fashionable. Miss Scott, of Aratapu, was chosen belle and a trophy of a beautiful fan presented her.

Mr D. H, Jackson, of Auckland, has carried off, under the English examination, a Science Scholarship, the oniy one which has been taken in the Australasian colonies. At the meeting of the University College Council, Sir G, M. O’Rorke, commenting on Mr Jackson’s sdccess, said that the University was to he congratulated on having produced such a student. Mr Jackson had now a University career opened to him in any part of the British Empire. He added that Professor Brown was desirous that Mr Jackson should be able to continue in England the highly creditable course he had begun here" There he would have opportunities of pursuing his science studies such as neither New Zealand nor Australia could afford, He therefore moved that Bishop Cowie, Colonel Haultsin and himself should be appointed a committee to enquire whether the Council could not, out of the College funds, vote a sufficient sum to pay Mr Jackson’s passage to England, The motion was unanimously carried.

It will be information to most people that corpses can be kept sweet for many years by simply putting them in tea, not the infusion, but the dry article. It is said, with little truth, we fervently hope, that the Chinese employ this method of preserving their iC late departed,’ and it is —horrible thought ! —rumoured that the economical Celestials send to the unsuspecting barbarians of the West the identical article they have employed in the embalming process. To provide against a Chinaman using tea in which one of his countrymen has been packed, the tea used in the process is done up in boxes so marked as to be easily recognised by the natives of the Flowery Land. Seeing that we in the colonies are the largest consumers of tea in the world, that in proportion to our population, it is evident that in seeming to acquire a love for tea, we have unwitingly been cultivating a taste for preserved Chinamen.

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