LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVIII, Issue 14624, 28 January 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are seven fruit inspectors in New Zealand at the present time, whose salaiies aggregate £12,995; thirteen orchard instructors with salaries amounting to £2,230 ; and eleven dairy instructors whose salaries total £3.190.

There will be no safety either for motorists or for other usei’3 of the roads until the authority of the law is invoked to compel motrrsts to approach railway crossings and sharp corners at a slow speeed and to travel in busy streets at a reasonable rate.—lnvercargill “Times.” President Taft, speaking' at New York. said he hoped the Congress would promptly vote a million sterling for the fortification of the Panama Caual Ho would bring all his influence to bear on both Houses to secure this result.

It looks as though Mr Bowling will have to retnrn to his own country where, in the meantime, his mana has waned considerably. The ideal of a Labour Party in the House after next election does not s :em at present very hopeful of fulfilment. —Palmerston “ Standard.”

An effort is being made to have the next meeting of the South Auckland Rflle Association held at Cambridge. The matter is to be brought up at the rifle meeting to be held here at Te Aroha ou the 29th instant.

The man is rare who does not feel in his heart that our great national debt iB a great national danger that the Prime Minister is increasing in the most reckless manner.—Welllington “Dominion.”

Mr T. Hanna advises that he will be attending the Te Aroha show, and hopes to meet all his old and new friends. As set out iu hio advertisement, Mr Hanna has a block of 1,000 aore3 in the Thames Valley to dispose of under the Land for Settlement Finance Act.

The Skating Rink will be open this afternoon and evening as usual. The skating season closes on Monday (show night) when a Black and White evening will be held. Prizes will be given to the best lady skater and the best gentleman skater. A Record attendance is expected. A charge of sixpence for admission will be made.

The claims of J, J- Meikle have cost the country a pretty sum ; and what is more, the claimant himself has been wasting time and money that would, if applied to some more reasonable pur suit, have enabled him to live in ease for the rest of his life.—Stratford “ Post.”

Roche’s Gully Bridge will be closed to traffic on Wednesday February Ist pending the construction of a temporary crossing during re-building.

It is placing a very low estimate on the integrity of the public men of the Dominion if they cannot be trusted to hold positions of responsibility to the public, because they are personally interested in some contract which the council to which they belong may make, —New Plymouth “ Herald,”

The Hamilton Brass Band will p’ay selections in the Domain rotunda on Tuesday mght next.

It is just a question whether tradesmen themselves would not favour the national observance of Saturday as the half-holiday. From present indications the time is not far distant when the Legislature will fix the holiday,, and it is safe to assume that Saturday will be the days elected —Masterton “ Age.”

Tenders for three separate contracts are being called by the Piako County Council.

A working bee is hard at work getting the Shew Ground in order. 'Amongst those present we noticed the following were conspicuously busy Messrs F. Rowe, T. Gavin, R. B. Hines. J, Carswell, O’Grady, H. Magill, F. Hubbard. G. Stewart, J. B. Thomas, G. Goodfellow.

An extraordinary country is America. Because her husband would not let her put her cold feet in the middle of his back to enable her to get to sleep, the United States courts have granted Mrs Margaret Owens a divorce from Robert, Owens. Mrs Owens said her husband had become so touchy he would almost crawl out of bed every time she touched him with her cold feet, and he had not kissed her in three years. Judge Lairy held that this was cruelty. Owens put up the defence that three years ago, after a quarrel, his wife informed him that thereafter they “ would live together only as hired girl and boarder.” Being a married man, he said, he ha’d had his scruples about kissing the *• hired girl.”

A most unfortunate accident happened in Auckland on Wednesday, whereby Miss Flossie Boynton was knocked down and run over by a motor cir in Queenstreet. Both wheels passed over her, and she sustained slight concussion of the brain and was severely bruised, but by a miraculous escape was otherwise not seriously injured. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs Boynton, who not long ago sustained such a sad blow in the sudden death of her devoted husband, and who witnessed the accident to her daughter on Wednesday. Mrs and Miss Boynton’s many friends in Te Aroha will be relieved to hear that latest advices state her condition to be satisfactory.

So as not to inconvenience dairy farmers’ milch cows in classes 73, 77, 82, 86, 88, 89, need not be pence 1 until 9 a.m, of the second day.

Mr Philip H. Moses, who has a new advertisement iu another column, notifies that he will be in attendance in Te Aroha on Monday next, Show Day.

The explanation tendered by Foster Fraser to Australians who took exception to certain statements made by him regarding their country, is somewhat on the curious side. Foster was accused of making misleading statements about Australia, whereupon he calmly replied that, if he had, he couldn’t help it, as he got his information from Government publications and officials. This seems rather like letting the cat out of the bag. Fraser came out to the Antipodes with a great flourish of trumpets, as a lecturer and a journalist, and it was understood that he had come to make observations for himself , and not to collect them at second-hand from Government officials and publications. Anybody could perform the latter feat, and if he trusted to the information he received in that way, he would have only himself to blame if he fell in badly, as Fraser has done. Somebody has evidently been pulling Fraser’s leg strenuously. “Messrs W. Mackie and S ms contracted for the new exhibition building, and Mr » Crump for the grandstand.

The visit of the Mining Engineers has been altered to all day on Sunday February sth, instead of by special train as previously intimated. They arrive iu Te Aroha on Saturday evening and leave on Monday morning. A bowling match between an Auckland touring team and a representative Te Aroha rink will take place on Monday morning, 6th February The Aucklanders reach here on Saturday night (4th February) and leave again for Paeroa by the 1.30 p.m. train on Monday. They will be entertained by Te Aroha bowlers on the Sunday.

Visitors are respectfully invited to inspect the splendid show of Post Card and Crockery Views of Te Aroha at Williams’. Send your friends a present and they will smile—Advt. Gradually but surely further improvements are being effected in the Domain. We notice that the principal paths leading to all the baths and important drinking springs have lately been asphalted. This is undoubtedly a step in the right direction and one which will remove an old source of complaint, in that bathers can now get to their favourite bath and drinking spring without, in wet weather, having their boots liber illy coated with mid. We hope that in the process of time other paths leading to favourite nooks will also be asphalted.

Members of Parliament were more concerned about getting home for Christmas than with the effect of their ill-considered legislation. They sowed in abundance the seeds of carelessness, and a rich harvest is at present being reaped.—Palmerston “Standard.” A KNOWING JURYMAN “Look here,” said oue of the jurymen, after they had retired, “If I understand aright, the plaintiff do '-sn’t ask damages for blighted affections or anything of that sort, but only wants to get back what he has speut on presents, pleasure trips and so forth.” “That is so,” agreed the foreman. “Well, theo, I vote we don’t give him a penny,” said the jury. If all the fun he had with that girl didn't cover the amount he expended, it must be his own fault. Gentlemen, I courted that girl once myself.” |