LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4370, 6 February 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Upon the announcement of the forthcoming Ada Crosslev concert ut Paeroa ' 150 people at Waihi booked seats. Visitors from Auckland are impressed with the value of the goods being offered at our di apers’ autumn sales. A meeting of the Waitoa Drainage Board was held at Mr R. Matleson’s residence on Thursday last to deal with correspondence. It was decided to bold the next meeting in 'l’e Aroha on Monday m xt. Bth inst, at 12 o’clock, |

In connection with the St. Mark’s Sunday School festival, to which reference was made in our last issue, we are informed that the children of St. Matthew's school at Morrinsville are being invited to attend, and that the picnic is to be held in Mr Henry Clifford’s paddock. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will hold their next Mahimata Stock Sale on Wednesday 24th. Entries to date inclune (500 head fat and store cattle, calves and yearlings, 400 fresh full mouth cross-bred ewes, 100 lambs. Services will b ‘ held to - morrow morning and eveuing at St. David's Presbyterian Church, To Aroha. At 230 p.ui., the usual monthly service will be held in the Waihou Public Hall. All interested in the rel-tion of religion and Socialism should read “ Socialism the Church and the Poor,” by Professor Forsyth, of Hackney College London. The book can be procured from the New Zealand Bible Depot, Dunedin, at the small cost of is (id. The blaseinar in con ruction with Murphy’s new miue requires to be explained to apprehensive visitors. One lady hearing the loud Boom ! Boom ! the other night wondered what was afoot at Rotorua, and was relieved to learn the next morning that it was no seismic disturbance hut merely the nocturnal activities of well accredited human agents. 1 A Dunsandel (Christchurch) shearer has in his possession a sample of wool from a fleece which is of seven years’ growth. Each growth can be seen distinctly The wool is fully loin long«

Mr E. D< vey, D.P. of the local Druid’ | lodge, left by the express this morning, being the delegate to the Grand Ledge m eting at Palmer ston North. | The next Wahou Stick Bale will t<ke pi ce on Friday 12th at which the i Farmers’ Auctioneering Company will | offer 100 fat cattle and 400 store cattle, an Andrews and Beav<n double-bagger chaff cut er (practically new and in good . order ) Some 800 2-tooth, 4-to «th, and (5-tooth to fuli-iuouth Romney, Lincolu ewes are also to be submitted on account of Mr W H. Herries. 1 There are enormous fields of fruit around Roxburgh, in Central Otago, and it is estirna f ed that for fruit alone about £50,000 will go into the dis triet A general meeting of the Rifle Club was held 1 ist evening in the Borough Chambers- Owing to our having gone to press the report of the same is held over until our next isssue, A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Te Aroha A. and H. Society will be held in the Secretary’s office this evening at 730 p m., to decide re payment of prize money. The Rev. J. Dukes will preach in the Methodist Church, Te Aroha, tomorrow, morning and evening, and at Mauawaru in the afternoon.

At a meeting convened in th e Methodist Church, Waitoa, last Wed" nesday evening (3rd February) Mis 8 Perrott, was duly appointed organist in place of Mrs McLean, whose' resignation was accepted with regret. It was resolved that Rev. J. Dukes deliver a lecture on Dr. Guthrie at an early date, also that the Harvest festival be celebrated on February 21st This being the commencement of the grass seed season, we beg to draw the attention of our readers to the advertisement (at present appearing in The News ) of Mr John Hall, of Otahuhu Mr Hall’s Representative is at present in the district, and will give full

particulars as to prices of his special lines of new English Clovers and Grasses, also his Extra machined Cocksfoot, Old Pasture and Poverty Bay Ryegrass. Suburban residental sites appear to be in demand judging by the fact that the newly-surveyed Ruakaka block, on the Paeroa roa<i is pretty well all taken up. A lady who made enquiries concerning a section there this week was told that she mignt be able to obtain one section. The water is already laid on that far, and electric light is soon to follow. There are now over 2,000,000 trade unionists in Great Britain, and the Labour Party, until a few months ago represented only half of them, because the miners stood outside, and the Scottish unions were not yet included in the party. This year the English Labour party has annexed Scotland, and the 500,000 miners in one block, with their fifteen members of Parliament have come over to the Labour party, so that political labour is now united under the one banner.

» We are notified by the Post Office authorities that the metallic circuit is now open for traffic to Morrinsville , This will be of great convenience to residents of Te Aroha and Morrinsville. The charge to Morrinsville from Te Aroha is to be the same as that to Paeroa from Te Aroha, namely threepence to subscribers and sixpence to 1 non subscribers,

If you take a quantity of cut flower 8 and place them in water, how long do they last ? But suppose you try this way. Cut them the day before you wish to place them in the vase. After getting the stalks to the desired ltength. hold them in red-hot embers, not the flame, of the fire, until you have well burnt half an inch. As an alternative, hammer an inch of the end of the stems. Then place them in water which Will cover a large quantity of the leaves. Next morning you can arrange them in their proper places. Chrysanthemums and wall-flowers are specially suited to this treatment. You need not rejeot half-oppned buds, beoause they will bloom in due course, and will remain so for many days instead of wilting in a few hours, as is usually the case. Then don’t throw away the flower stalk that does not lie the “ right way.” Heat it gently, and then stroke with your fingers, slightly bending it in the direction you want. It is wonderful what can he done, even with plants of sott-wooded branches, patience and gentleness. Try it, and yuu will be surprised to find how much longer your flowers will last in fragrance and beauty.

* Special Clearing Sale, 200 dozen Laces. All widths, Id, 2d, and 3d yard, at Gahagati’s Economic. —Advt. Call on S. Levy, Watchmaker Te Aroha, oppes te Bank of New Zealand, for repairs. Conntry orders promptly attended to. Twelve n onths guarantee with all w >rk. All work at town price o . —Advt.