The Ohinemuri Gazette. AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN MONDAY, OCT. 24, 1904. "Local ana General.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 1190, 24 October 1904, Page 2

The Ohinemuri Gazette. AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN MONDAY, OCT. 24, 1904. "Local ana General.

The Michaelmas holidays for the children attending the Paeroa School commence to-day. Mr Nod Shaw has secured through Dean HackeU a first-class rifle (repeater) for use at the shooting gaJlery during the Empire Bazaar. Mr Hazard, of Auckland, has kindly lent this rifle. Mr Andrew McKenzie, of Puriri, ha* been appointed to tho position of working foreman to the Piako County Council. A meeting of the committee of the Faeroa Public Library was hold on Friday evening, Mr Corkill presiding. The business was almost entirely of a routine character. It was decided to obtain another half-a- .ozen easy chairs for the reading: room to replace the forms at present in use.

A reminder is given of the entertaintneut to be given in the Choral Hall this evening by the Paeroa °araera Club. A large number of lantern slides will be exhibited, and musical items will also be coutributed. The ptice of admission has been fixed at one shilling; children, sixpence.

Tenders, returnable up to two o'clock on November 3rd, are invited by the Ohinemuri County Council for several contracts, particulars of which are given in the advertisement in another portion of this issue.

Notice is given that examinations for mine managers' and battory superintendents' certificates will be held on January 24th, 1905, and following days, at places of which notice will be given • Examinations for dredgemasters' certificates will he held at Greymoutk and Dunedin on January 31st, 1905!

The funeral of the late Mr Thomas Parlby took place at the Paeroa cemetery yesterday afternoon, and was largely attended. Prior to the funeral leaving the house a short service was conducted by the Salvation Army, and the captain of the local branch of the army also officiated at the grave. The chief mourners were the eldest son and three daughters of deceased. The members of the Paeroa Fire Brigade (under Captain Moore and Lieutenant Casley) attended in uniform, and carried the coffin from the hearse to the grave. At the grave the funeral service for a departed fireman was read by Fireman Brenan, the deceased having been an enthusiastic member of the local fire brigade for a large number of years. The coffin was wrapped in a Union Jack, and was literally covered with wreaths sent by friends and relatives of the deceased, amongst them being one forwarded by the Paeroa lire Brigade, The firebell was tolled during the funon)} Qttt> Qf respect for Fireman Parley.

Robert Raw notifies that he intends applying for a trnnsfnr of tho license oi the Sir George Grey Hotel at Tairua from himself to John Wileon. The application will eo;j}g .before tho Ohinemuri licensing Committee nt jfcs meeting on December 7th.

X>ean Hu^kett has issued an jnvita.tion to all the children hi P/jeroa to be present at the Empire Baziar next Thursday, Friday and. Saturday afternoons, wheu they will be admitted free of charge.

Fiie hero of a tall 11017 had been fishing in Florida. On his return he was asked what kind of sport he had had By his own account his success had been phenomenal. " One of the beßt days," he said thoughtfully, '»there was three of us, and we each had tfH'oo rods. All day long we pulled in fish ae> fast as we could throw out our lives. Jt'o no use you asking me what kinds of fish they were, because there were too many for me to remember." " At least, you can tell us if thero were any whales among them/ mildly suggested one of his audience. if Whales?" he replied scornfully, " Why m&n aliye we were baiting with whales."

New Zealand evidently has a ehaiin for Chinese, Nineteen of them arrived in Wellington on Wednesday from Sydney. Eight of them had previously resided in the colony, an 4 the remainder contributed £1100 to the revenue.

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The celebrated bull fighter, Luiz Mazzaatini, who has become possessed of millions and who boasts that he has killed thirty-five hundred bulls, has retired from the bull ring, and chosen Florence, his native city, as his residence. Mazzantini was in America in 1901-2, when he visited Mexico, where he slew more than a hundred bulls. He was originally a law student, but, finding that profession did not pay, he became a telegraphist. Though promoted to be manager of a telegraph office, this did not content him, and choosing the career of a bull fighter, he entered the arena in 1881, in three years securing his diploma as a matador. He was soon advanced to the front rank.

Color-Sergeant Irvine, one of the members of the Bislej team, who returned to Wellington by the Karamoa, states that the Mew Zealanders were generally acknowledged by leading shots as being the most successful colonial team that had ever competed at Bisiey, gaining higher money than the Australians did on a previous occasion by . winning the Kolanore Cup.

Our correspondent writes :—" Some of the farmers in the Manutahi (Piako) district who have in the past gone in for daiiying on a pretty large ecale have thia year turned their uftiry pastures into sheep runs, on account of the improvement in the price of wool and mutton, Others on the Plains, with big areas, are talking of doing'the same next year, if the relative prices obtaining for dairy produce and wool are the same then as they are at present."

E. R. Andrews, fashionable tailor, Paeroa, has a very choice lot of seasonable tweeds to select from.— Advt. Another Polish school scandal is reported from Eastern Prussia, somewhat resembling the famous Wrescheu affair of two years ago. At Wreschen, the Polish children, instig-ited by their parents, refused to attend religious instruction imparted to them in the German language, and the German authorities, in insisting on carrying out their school plan, did so with unnecessary harshness, with the result that the Poles throughout Prussia, Austria, and Russia held many excited meetings, and used much impassioned language against their oppressors. The frgish disturbance has occurred at Bukowier, where the Polish school children have struck . against singing " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" and the Prussian National Anthem. Accord? ing to the German local journals, the children were organised by thoir parents, and scenes of the wildest confusion ensued when the teachers punished the recalcitrant children, their parents threatening to take vengeance. The little ones have been detained at home in consequence. The German school authorities declare that they will compel the children to attend school, and to sing these songs which aro on the school programme. Intense excitement prevails in Bukowier and its neighbourhood, and it is feared that the strike will spread to the other Polish schools throughout the district, where German domination in the schools is bitterly resented.