THE AROHA NEWS AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 2

THE AROHA NEWS AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

'This above all — to thine own -self be tru And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.' — Shakespeare.

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1884.

We uLderptand .1 challenge to play for a dinner has been issued by a selected football team to play our team who went to the Thames this day week. Play will commence at 3 o'clock on the racecourse. Members of the Library Committee are requested to meet in the Reading lioom on Monday evening at 7.30. It was intimated in our columns some 'tv^eks a.v>o th.it nogoti.itiona were on foot for thr* erection of a battery on the Hill, and we now learn that a satisfactory arlau^einent has b< j en come to between the \mvtie 1 * concerned. -Two of the companies interested have already signed the agreement, and other two are expected to do so in a few days. Concerning the terms on which the battery is to be erected we are not in a position to give particulars, but no doubt they will soon be made fully known. The machinery has, we believe, already been ordered, and will be of the most perfect description for the thorough treatment of the quartz. The work will be puRhed on with all possible despatch, and should the weather prove moderately favourable it is expected the erection will be completed within five months, although the time allowed by the agreement gives to the 3lst of December next, by which date everything must lie in working order. In quartz spinning, as in other pursuits, .lieaJthvcttjptstition h the koiiI of bu-'.nes-', and with the introduction ,of this, and

other bntterie* which we may hnn« will follow, fresh lif'o and energy will be given to the working of the iiolcl. Both nt Hamilton and Cambridge an agitation is on foot to get the Cooperative Association to go at once into the next question, and not only to open as intended, retail butchers 1 shops in Auckland, but one in each of the principal townships in Waikato. This would ensure a fair price to the producer,^ and irivo the consumer moat at just hall! the price he now pays for it. At the present moment the farmers get from 8s to 12s per lOOlbs for his beef, and the consumer pays at the rate of 40s per lOOlbs on an average. Besides this, the butcher makes an average oO 20s on every beast for skin and oifal. As an instance of how the thing" now works, Mr John Hunt, of Richmond, near Morrin^ville, offered two fat heifers to the butchers for sale, asking £3 5s each for thorn, but could got no higher offer than £3 each. He then killed the animals and sold the meat toi 3b per lb, and realised £u 10s each for these beasts. The skins would be worth anotner 15s each. No wonder that fanning languishes, and that high wages maintain their rate with little real benefit to the working classses. — llemld. : A general meeting of the shareholders of the Little Jimmy (t.M. C> was to have been held in Auckland Tuesday afternoon, for the purpose o£ considering the advisability or otherwise ot' surrendering the licensed holding and winding up the Company. There was no quorum, however, and the meeting therefore lasped. The Rev. Mr Mclntosh w ill hold Presbyterian services to-morrow at Waiorongomai 11 a.m., aud atTc Afoha in the evening at C.30v Next Sunday evening the Rev. T. J. Wills will conduct service in the Wesleyan Church, taking for his subject "The New Birth." Messrs Bradley and Co. commence running a daily co^ch to Paeroa on Monday next, see advertisement. We draw the attention of our readers to Messrs Wells and Soutter's advertisement, announcing a special cheap clearance sale of saddlery, drapery, and ironmongery. Piices wi'll not bo altered, but all cash purchasers will receive u rebate of 3s in the pound, i'lus sale qSlmh> n good opportunity for obtaining ivally lirst-cl.iss goods atu low figure. As will be seen by advertisement, a temperance meeting will be held in the Te Aioha Public Tail an noxt Tuesd ly evening, commencing at 7 o'clock. The Rev. T. J. Wills will preside, and Rev. MiBarley and others from the Thames will address the meeting. In consequence of above meeting, the usual foitnightly Te Aroli.i Band of Hope meeting, winch should take place on that night, will not bo held. Au interesting walking uuteh commences to-day in the Public Hall at noon, wheu Mr T. Jerome, who has attracted huge crowds elsewhere, <.tai ts on his 50 miles walk, to be be completed by 10 p.m. On Monday evening next Mr Jerome will give an exhibition of skill on the tiapeze und tight-rope, the periormanee to conclude with a dance. The report of the directors of Hero (Te Aroha). GLM.Co. shows that the receipts during the past year ftom proceeds of sale of surrendered shares, calls and gold, amounted to £407 9s 8d ; expenditure, £382>15s 1.1 ; bal.ince, £14 14s 7d. It lias been decided to stop operations for a time, to enable calls to b'3 received and funds to be in hand. The directors expect soon to be able to instruct the resumption of work, as they consider the claim well worth further trial. Sir Walter Scott (Karangahake).— A telegiam received from Paeroa on Thursday conveys the pleasing intelligence that the crushing of about 50 tons oi" quartz from this mine i>ave the payable return of 41ozs 15dwts retorted gold.