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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1759, 14 August 1895, Page 2

Work on Track is still being pushed on, the formation of the tract is now completed 8 feet wide from the flat to the top on the Te Aroha side, and the bush cleared a chain wide the whole way. It is expected it will be open for horse traffic during the coming summer. V

An eight-storey building being erected in West. Broadway, New York, collapsed, and eighty workmen engaged upon it fell to the basement, eighteen being killed. The causa was the piling up of materials near the lift on each floor.

A remarkable action for slander is being heard in London, causing a great st r in society. Mrs Jacoby, a member of the Badminton Hunt, charges the Dowager Lady Cowley with accusing her of writing and circulating obscene letters. The plaintiff asserts that Lady Cowley herself wrote them.' •

The many friends of Mr Charles Vincent, of Paeroa, will be glad to hear that he is progressing very favourably in the Thames Hospital.

The many Te Aroha friends of Mr James Mills will be pleased to learn that he is on a fair way towards recovery. . The Paeroa- Waihi football match aid not eventuate on Saturday, owing to the death of William Gilmour.

Replying to a deputation from the Educational Confererce the Minister of Jjabor said he would tell them frankly that ho would not give them any help a regards Continuation Schools. All money available was required for ordinary educational purposes. Besides, he was opposed to the system on principle if it would take children from ordinary schools. As to the building "rant they had at present to make <£45,093 do where abput <£6Q,OCO was necessary, ana he would ask Parliament to keep to their former amount.

Recently a number of New.' Zealand sheep farmers sent liberally of their 'prize stock to New Sbuth Wales in the expectation of realising good prices for stud stoc». Unfortunately their enterprise was not rewarded, and loses were.sustained where profit had been looked for. Amongst the shippers was Mr R. Mcßae Richmond, and while his : Romney Marsh ewo3 sold at. Bs. each;, pure Border Leicester ram 3 Bold at, the same price. ..Many show sheep..were sent to the butchers at such prices and boiled down for their fat. Possibly the fact that a drought has been reported from New South Wales, may have contributed to the unsatisfactory state of things alluded to. ‘‘ . . ,y., An American journal lately published some observations upon the children of a dozen drunkards and the same number of temperate parents.- Of the fifty-seven children of the drunken parents,, on’y -ten showed normal constitutions, while six were idiots. The sixty-one children of the temperate parents were all healthy. A corporal was drilling a squad of recruits. Impatient at their futile attempts to keep in line, he cried to them in an angry tone: ‘ Eyes front! Just step out of the ranks you set of duffers, and come and see what you look like!’ a At one time France was extolled as a country where sobriety prevailed, chiefly on accont of the inhabitants drinking what were called light wines. .It is a sad thing to record that no longer , content with these wines, the French are becoming an intermperate people. It is reported that the French Cabinet, owing to the extensive increase of inebriety, have decided to raise the duty on alcohol. 'There is . a National Temperance League in France; but the work of Bpreading the principles of the League appears to .bo far more difficult than in England, and probably the leaders in the movement lack the necessary enthusiasm. : v, Hero is a good mining story from California. A mine owner who had .failed to »strike ile ’ determined to dispose of his shares and return home. He accordingly started for ’Frisco and arranged with his manager to wire a few days subsequently to the effect ‘We have struck a good lode.’ The telegram Arrived in due course worded as follows: ‘We have struck a good lode; we have struck a —good lode!’ Accidentally the wire was left about, with the result that hews of the find was... noised abroad, and at once the shares ran up a fine figure. Our friend bought' at the start byway of a blind, and then quietly unloaded, retaining only a nominal holding. On the following day a second wire arrived : “We have struck the finest lode in . the country.’ On the strength of this, which was also carelessly left about the share Wentup stiluEiglierraMftlie owner sold the remainder of his holding. That very day who should he meet in the, street but the manager himself, and then as the saying goes, the fat was in the five. . They had .struck a grand lode and the repetition of the words in the original message was intended to warn the owner. He had made, it. is true, a fair pile, but not a titho of what would have been the case had he been in a little less, hurry and a little more honest. - ■

Mr L. Hanlon, the. fruit . expert, in a paper prepared for the Birkenhead Fruitgrowers’ Association, wrote ‘ When in Masterton a year or two ago I saw a’crop of grapes in a well-cultivated vineyard there which totted up to almost ten tons per acre. At a. Id per lb, this crop was worth .£95 per acre. There were many Black Humburgs amongst these grapes, and I feel sure had they been sent to the Wellington market they would have realised 8d per lb. Sweetwater and other sorts were worth 6d, and some' of the smaller wine varieties, at 3d. At a low. estimate, I* feel sure this grand crop was worth ,£350 per acre; at any rate, the owner* told me he was offered 3d per lb for the crop, or say , >6285 per acre, hut he had declined to sell,. He ife a rich man, and makes his grapes into wine.’ Professor Loisette’s recent visit to this colony and the wonderful results achieved ’within a few weeks' is the best evidence that could be desired of the great value of his Memory System, and of the eagerness with which it has been grasped by all classes. Dunedin gave results which were deemed remarkable, and Christchurch afforded a measure o* success, under adverse climate and conditions, more surprising. Wellington, the next city visited, gave the Professor a splendid clas3,; but Auckland, within four days from the public introductory lecture, running three' classes of instruction each day, has given a grand total of successful students, exceeding all the results of the other cities mentioned. Those who have not been able to participate in the advantages of the five guinea classes in Auckland and elsewhere, are now invited by the New Zealand Agency advertised in our columns and conducted by Mr P. R. Dix, of Coombes’ Arcade, Auckland, to share the benefits of the system at the low charge of twenty-four shillings for each person. The Te Aroha Goldfields School Committee met last evening in the school-house. There were present : Messrs Gilchrist (chairman), Mackay, Bell, Wallace, and Rev Joughin (secretary). The usual routine business was gone through, and in addition it was resolved to ask the Board of Education for a new bell and clock for; the use of the school. The action of the Visiting Committee in accepting McKee’s tender for fencing was endorsed, and the new Visiting Committee, Messrs Bell and Gilchrist, were appointed to see that the specifications were carried out. A circular from tl.e Board of Education was read notifying intention to change School Readers, change to be effected gradually, commencing from January Ist, 1896. In obedience with the instructions of the Te Aroha Town Board. Mr Snewin, clerk, has written the following letter to the Chief Postmaster, Thames, re the proposed postal delivery for Te Aroha.—‘To J. E. Coney Esq.: Chief Postmaster, Thames. Sir.—l have the honour by direction of the above Board to respectfully urge you to grant Te Aroha a daily delivery of letters, as the same is urgently needed owing to the increased population and in the interests of the advancement of the mining industry in this district.’ We hope now that the ball has been set rolling wo shall soon obtain that much needed reform we have so long advocated. I

The folloWing. teg,m will represent the Te Aroha Football Club in' the match against Karangahake on Saturday next, 17th inst., to be played at the latterplace. The team will leave Smardon Bros.’ stables at 11.30 sharp : —Full-back, Pococlt; tliree-quarters,' Brevier, Pavitt, Gregory; halves, Gorrie, Keesing, Joe ; forwards, Renmck (captain), Cornea, ‘ William,’ Lewis, Buchan, Hamilton, Simmonds. -Morgan! Emergencies, McLean, Ngarua.

The Colonial Treasurer ' states that it would mean a loss of over .£SOOO to permit newspapers printed in the colony to be sent abroad free of postage. The suggestion was not likely to he entertained for many years. • Mr Madden, solicitor, Paeroa, met with a very painful accident on Friday last. It appears that he had been out-driving with severed mothers, and . when returning at night theiriconveytmce, which it -is said was without, lights, ran into another similiary situated. The force of the-con-cussion threw Madden, out on to the road. He fell on his head, and received a number of-very severe cuts on his face, there being quite a nasty-gash, under one of his eyes. He is iHM&under the care- of Dr Forbes, .who does not think that anything of a serious nature will result. !

Mr Bvemner, Returning Officer for the Waitoa'Riding, of the P&ko County, advertises particulars re the' nomination and election qf-a member for the seat on the Council, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr N. A. Larney. Nominations close at Morrinsville on Thursday, the 22nd inst., aud the election will take place oh the 30th 'inst. ' 'V ■ ■