LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4386, 16 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr A. W. Edwards advertises for an office girl. Mr M. O’Donoghue has entrusted Mr Wm. Dudley with the erection of a commodious eight roomed villa residence • n his farm at Waihou.

Latest advice concerning the man Hamilton is to the effect that he is at Tapu, in good health and doing well.

Inspector Corkhill, of the Bank of New Zealand, paid a visit to Te Aroha on Saturday last. Ah the date of the municipal elections is drawing near, persons entitled to vote, should see that their names are inserted on the roll.

A great amount of rubbish finds its way into the water-table along 1 the upper side of Whitaker-street. This mixed assortment is carried down as far as Park House, where it blocks the gratings and causes a nuisance.

Received from the Government Printer : Report on Veterinary Science for 1908 statistics by the Chief Inspector of Stock, Mr D. Hyde’s report on the poultry division, and Mr B. C. Aston’s report on the cheusistry division.

At the meeting of the Executive Council of the Thames Mirers’ Union a resolution was passed condemning the action of the directors of the Taupiri Coal Company in paying £2OO to the four men who remained at work during the recent trouble, the grounds. being that as payment to men on strike by unions was illegal such payments as were now objected to should not be made by either party. Insurance losses resulting from the terrible disaster in Calabria and Sicily will, remarks the “ Insurance Record ” (London), fall chiefly upon Italian, Austrian, and French insurance companies. Owing to the restrictive Italian laws and the low rates accepted by the Italian companies, British fire offices are expected to escape practically scot free. The damage done by the great earthquake which destroyed San Francisco was estimated at £60,000,000, but no one has yet ventured to guess at the resultant cost of the present calamity.

A West Coast (South Island) paper states that a party of prospectors ha' ! been inspecting the ranges in the vicinity of Charlestown, and has already discovered what promises to be a splendid field. The quartz shows soz of gold to the ton. On account of the i unavoidable absence of the assayer, the 1 search for miuerals other than gold has been delayed. It is supposed that these ranges are extremely rich in minerals. I The funeral of Walter, the eldest son i of Mr and Mrs T. J. Stanley, took place yesterday. The mortal remains were .laid to rest in the Te Aroha West cemetery. The Rev. Dukes officiated at the grave. The poor little fellow, who 1 had been ailing for some months, was a t very promising lad, and his cleverness at school had been referred in I these columns, at the musical exarninI ations, etc. We extend to the bereaved ' parents our heartfelt sympathy in their I hour of trouble.

The question of whether the Te Aroha District Co op. would entertain the starting of a bacon factory, waß discussed at the Directors meeting on Saturday evening. The result of their deliberations has not been made public. The practice of having beds made in the early morning, though a very tidy one, is a very bad one. Constantly we see a bed made up within an hour* after the sleeper has left the room, wherefore all exhalations from the skin during the night are confined beneath the sheets, and are breathed again at mght. It is an excellent practice and one that ought to be encouraged in all young people, to turn over the clothes of the bed immediately on rising. The mattress, too, should be turned back, so that all may be properly aired and quite cold before being re-made.