Odds and Ends.

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

Odds and Ends.

Weekly meeting Y.P.S.C.E. in the Wesleyan Church to-morrovr evening. # Our footballers play the return match with Kajtangahalte’on Saturday* Work has been re-assumed on Thompson’s Track. I Mr H. H. Thompson, the teacher appointed to th 6 Te Aroha School, in place of Mr F. D. Woods; arrived on Saturday by the-train. r ' ' There are now about .50 subscribers to the lending branch of the Te Aroha ‘Public Library. . -i ! . |j |Dr Grace has alieady scored two thousand runs this season in first-class matches.

The totalisajtor and every other gamble insist go ! The^Auckland Union Parliament hisß spoken! .„ s - > A colliery m Ardrosaah, Scotland, has been flooded, and fourteen men drowned. A party of 'men captured a finely-marked specimen of.thft.-sea leopard about 7 feet in length; near Kjaiapoi, but liberated it on learning of the, penalties. The shipment \ of convicts now on the way to New Caledonia consists of 500 souls. Among the nuthber is ex-Captain Dreyfus, recently convicted of espionage. Worthington, of the Christchurch Students of Truth has got married, and his disciples are wroth thereat. Envelopes were first used in 1839, Telescopes were invented in 4590. Iron horseshoes were made in 481. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. First steamer crossed the Atlantic, 1819. Assassination of Lincoln, April 14, 1865. German empire re-establishes, January 18. 1871. ' A,, stone thrown straight at the devil is pretty apt to hit some politician square in the face. The devil keeps many in bondage, because he can make a rope of sand look like an iron cable. Fifty-thousand pounds of the capital of the New Hauraki G.M. Company have been subscribed. During the past 12 years Australasia has exported 12 million frozen sheep to Great Britain. • Storm clouds move thjrty-six miles an hour. ......