LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4381, 4 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. Blair will conduct service in the Te Aroha West schoolroom to-night.

For the Waihi Races on the 6th inst. holiday excursion tickets will be issued. Mr C. D, Grey was elected Mayor of Auckland for the remainder ■of the term of Mr A. M. Myers (resigned). The voting was Grey 8, Bagnall 7. A petition in bankruptcy was tiled in the office of the Official Assignee at Auckland by Arthur Herbert Sellon Mellon, mine manager of the Thames. On Sunday next there will be service morning and evening in the Te Aroha Presbyterian Church. The usual monthly nfternoon service will be held in the Waihou Public Hall.

We draw particular attention to a new advertiseuu nt elsewhere in this issue from Mr J. F Strata, practical watch maker, jeweller, engraver, and optician of Auckland. Mr Stratz intimates that he is prepared to forward to any part of New Zealand, an American Lever Watch, a white metal or gilt stop watch, with two years guarantee for the sum of 7s 7d in stamps or postal notes. Cai penters are reminded that tenders are wanted for building a cottage. Specifications, etc., can be seen at Mr Stanley’s, Lipsey-street. Tenders close on Wednesday next.

The entries for the Waikato Central Show, to be held at Cambridge on the 10th and 11th March, closed yesterday, and another extraordinary record has been put up. The totals reaching 1712, being an increase over last years entries of 150. Of the increase 135 entries are in the stock classes. The following is an analysis of the entries :—Horses 697, cattle 270, sheep 237, pigs 61, dogs and produce, 447, total 1712. The e figures constitute a record for the Waikato Central Show, the largest stock show in the Auckland Province, and should draw a very large attendance cn the 10th and 11th inst.

Yesterday the Revs. E. M. Come and P. Cleary met the Parishoners of St. Matthews Church, Morrinsville, for the purpose of introducing the Rev. T. J. Harvie, who is to take charge of Matamata and Morrinsville.

Seeing that No-License has been carried in the Ohinemuri district it seems strange that any necessity now exists for an election of a licensing committee, but eight nominations have been receive l so that apll is inevitable The candidates nominated are Messrs N. Frederick • Oock. Win. Forrest, Thomas Kenny. A. Nettlingham. Jas. Slevin, A. Tetley, C. I Trezise, and George Yearbury. I We regret to learn that Mrs O- F. Pilling, who has been indisposed for the past few days, was removed to the Waikato Hospital by yesterday morning s train. We hope to see Mrs Pilling back amongst us and completely restored- to health ere long.

The contractors for extending the drive in Murphy's Find, Te Aroha, are makiug good progress with the work. They have driven a distance of 86 feet, and require a further 14 feet to complete their contract. The drive will then be in a distance of 210 feet. It is expected that another 100 feet will have to be driven before the reef is cut.

We draw the special attention of farmers and others interested to a re place advertisement from Messrs Kempthorne Prosser and Co. This well-known reliable firm are advertising a new grass manure of a special quality suitable for this province. The first Harvest Thanksgiving Service in connection with the Church of England at Manawaru took place on Sunday afternoon last. There was an abundance of farm produce, etc., brought in from all directions, and the service was a thanksgiving one in the truest sense of the words. The Rev P Cleary officiated’ A s a sequel to the service, some three sacks of harvest offerings left by the next morning’s train for the Children’s Home, Parnell.

We wish to draw our musical readers’ attention to our advertising columns where Mr Robt. Hoard, certificated tuner from J. Klrkman and Sons, London, and now representing the Collier-Colonial Piano Co., is here in Te Aroha, and anyone having a good instrument can safely entrust their work to Mr Heard, who has had an English and Colonial experience of over 25 years.