Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. THURSDAY, JULY 25 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43118, 25 July 1907, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 1907. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

2 his above all —to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the nhjht the day Ihou canst not then be false to any man Shakespeare.

The Vicar of Te Aroha will hold service at Aratiatia on Friday (to-morrow) at 7 p.m.

The third person on the scow Flora, which foundered in the harbour on Saturday morning is believed to have been a young man named Tyffe, of Kumara.

Six different styles of sewing machines to select from. Time payment or cash. Johnson and Wigg’s stock. —Advt. A very large increase in the number of tramway passengers carried in Welling ton for the year, has to be recorded. For 1903 6 the number was 13,574,223, an average of 1,130,000 per month. Last year the tolal number cirried was 16,897.034, being a monthly average of 1,408,000.

Men’s pure New Zealand wool underclothing at sail? prices at L. Cullen’s, Te Aroha. —Advt. Raisuli. the bandit, is intercepting the the correspondence of his captive. Kaid Sir Harry Maclean, and has refused to permit any more letters to be sent by him to the Maghzen. ‘‘lt the Sultan wants Sir Harry Mac Lean,” says Raisuli, “ let him send an expedition to release him!”

A petition for the completion of the unfinished portion of the Kaihu Valley railway from Kaihu t® Waima, and for a flying survey of the proposed extension from Waima to Hokianga, has been presented to Parliament by Mr Stallworthy. The petition sets out that the proposed extension would pass through a large area of Crown lands, on which is some of the finest timber in the colony. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure, ls6d and 2s 6d Advt.

The Costley Training Institution Act Amendment Bill, which is being introduced by the Hon. Geo. Fowlds, proposes to increase the number of the trustees of the institution from three to five, and to incorporate them into a board. Experience has shown that the present number of members is too few, and the constitution of the board has been found necessary as a means of facilitating the legal procedure in the cases of money adv meed on mortgage. The trustees will, as heretofore, be appointed by the Government. Berghofer’s is the best plr.ee in Te A roha for small goods of every description—plain and fancy. - Advt. The output of the Eltham dairy factory for the past season (the Argus reports) constituted a record in its history. Altogether 807£ tons of butter were manufactured and £67.019 paid out to suppliers. The year’s working leaves a balance of £2OOO still to be distributed, and this will bring the amount paid per lb for butter fat up to 10jd, as against 10.24 d last year. The busiest month was December, when 122.1- tons of butter were manufactured and £10,941 paid out, For children's hackin: cough at night Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure Is Gdand 2s 6d. —Advt.

A correspondent to the “ Taumaruuui Press ” writes : “ It may be of interest to your readers to know that the ro jk the Kia Ora is supposed to have run on is kuown to the natives as Piritoko. When Te Rauparaha lived on Tirau Point one of his wives swam out to it and b ick. Her name was Taha Moana. Many of his fighting men tried to accomplish it, but never could. It is also an old fishingground of the natives. That was Te Rauparaha’s last stand in the latter part of the 20’s, perhaps 1828. The distance to Piritoko from the points is about one mile and three quarters. One of the most useful things in the house is to be bought in Te Aroha at wholesale price, ask Johnson and Wigg. Advt.

The Board of Education has disapproved of the closing of ti e Ea‘t End school, Waihi, on account of measles, and has notified the secretary of the School Committee to that effect. At the meeting of the committee, Dr, Deck said that owing to so many children at the school who were suffering from influenza and throat troubles just now, the rapid spread of measles was more virulent in its action than if it spread slowly, and, it was quite possible that bronchial pneumonia would combine with measles, and cause a heavy death rate. He had communicated the special circumstances to the Board aud the health officer. The committee has forwarded the doctor’s recommendations to the Board.

There are woods of high mercantile value, Rare woods of great buty and price, Ai d woods of such close grain and hardness Asyesiot all white ants, rats, and mice.

But the Woods of all woody to be lauded, (You all will agree, I am sure). Is the Woods to whom mankind’s indebted, For the only Great Peppermint Cure.

Au inset will be om J in line issue from B. Spitz draper, who is paying his usual visit to Te Aroha. He announces thousands of bargains in all lines. Mr Sydney Buxton, Postmastergeneral, speaking at Newport (England), said that personally he favoured univers d penny postage, but if adopted it would cost the United Kingdom half a million yearly. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.—Advt.

The Rising Sun Gold Mining Company’s Mine Manager reports for tha week ending July 20th, as fellows: The crosscut into the hanging wall at the bottom of the winze has been extended a distance of five feet for the week. A leader about four inches in width has been cut through and it should ju-ction with the footwall reef some little distance south. The air-shaft is down a distance of twelve feet and we are not engaged timbering it up. We have erected a shed over the shaft so that tho men can work in wet weather.

Lace curtains from Is lOd up, spleudid value.—L. Cullen’s clearing sale Te Aroha.—Advt.

A London correspondent writes ; “ The majority of the British editors who recently visited Germany returned to London last Saturday. They were overwhelmed with the hospitality they received throughout their German tour, and they deny the reports, which had found publication in certain quarters, that there was any friction. Mr Mark Cohen (Dunedin) and Mr Leys (Auckland) did not go on to Denmark as did some of their English fellow travellers, but they returned to England by way of Brussels, and while there made a point of seeing tne field of Waterloo.” Just landed a big shipment of sewing machines both hand and treadle, ball - bearing, and otherwise, no middleman profits, direct from manufactures. Johnson andWigg.—Advt.

As the result of the Kia Ora decision the masters certificate held by Thos, B. de Wolfe has been forwarded to the Minister for Marine. The Court re turned the certifiates of Messrs Jas. Robiuson (second officer) and E. L. Baggstrom (chief engineer). The Court wished t) express its highest appreciation of the services rendered by the settlers, and hoped that their services would be suitably recognised and rewarded. Great priise was due to Constable McCarthy and Mr Holmes for the part they took in assisting the settlers and afterwards in searching for the bodies of the drowned. The costs of the iuquiry total over £2OO. Our great sale still booming, every one astonished at the prices—L. Cullen Te Aroha—Advt.

The river silting agitation at the Paeroa end of the district, is exciting a little interest at Wellington, and we note now tfiat in the course of his speech on the Addr-'ss-in-Peply Mr W F. Massey (Leader of the Opposition) said “ I notice—and hero I want to support the member of the Ohinemuri—that the lat ter member made a reference to the silting up of the Thames and Ohinemuri Rivers, and I want to endorse all that the honourable gentlemen said in that re spect. The matter is a very serious one for a very large number of settlers, and it is for the Government to f tee the po sition, and I hope they will do so, and will, apply a remedy before further damage is done.” THE BEST SEPARATOR.

Experienced dairymen, after trying the Baltic Cream Separator, certify that this up-to-date machine is “ not just as good ” but is superior to any other they have used. The opinion of the man' who uses it to make his living is the only evidence worth conaideration. Mr E. Benefield, of Kent Road, Taranaki, writes : - “ I have much pleasiu-e in stating that the Baltic P. 15. of 100 gallons per hour, is giving me great satisfaction. I ha.e used other machines, but find the Baltic the best 1 have ever used, in fact, I can not speak too highly of it.” Mac Ewan and Co Ltd , Sole Agents, Fort Afreet, Auckland.