SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1884.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 56, 28 June 1884, Page 2

SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1884.

the quantity would lie to try some of the sludge after the final process of grinding. It will bo seen by advertisement that fhe Rev. T. J. Wills will preach in. 'the Te Vroha Public Mall next Sunday night on • The two Entities in Alan. 11 This qu«a- '< lion having bopn lntc)v discussed in the 'mil, will l>e of some interest to tho^e wlio ire at all given to theological thought. There will be a meeting of the ; Te Aroha Band of Hope on fuQsaoy evening next at the usual time and place, We have to direct the attention of our readers to the sale of household furniture and effects, by Mr James Craig, at the residence of Mr Hector Reid) Bridge street, on Thursday next. Those who are furnishing will have an excellent opportunity of. supplying their wants. As a proof 6i the capabilities of the soil in some parts of the district for ; growing root crops, we may mention that there is now on view at our office a sample of mangolds grown in a field on the farm of Mr Seddon, Waitoa. Those exhibited weigh about 25 lbs each, arid are a fnir sample of the whole Q* - op, which is estimated to yield about 40 tons to the acre. Mr J. B. Whyte announces his intention of again solirting the suffrages of the electors of Waikjito, and will address them in the various centres of population at an early d.ite. The general, esteem in which Mr Whyte is held by all classes of the community will, apart from the faithful service he has rendered to his constituents, ensure for hitn a hearty reception even from those who may diifer from him in politics. { The works at the railway bridge are progressing. On Thursday the concrete poition of the outer pier was satisfactorily conipleted in presence of the Resident | Engineer, who had shortly before arrivmi from Hamilton. The driving of the piles for the centre pier, and the sheathing for the coffer-dam; will next bo proceeded with as rapidly as the nature of the work will admit of. The unsightly ditch in front of the Post-office is a standing nuisance as well as a source of danger to those whose business calls them thither after nightfall. The crossings which form the present approach are most inconveniently placed, and are of little use in sitch dark and stormy evenings as Were experienced last week; wlien it was impossible to curry even a cohered light outside. A broad crossing directly in front of the door is much wanted, and ought ce'rtiiinly to be made at once, otherwise we may be called Upon to cluonicle some accident. A few loads of gravel to form a foot-path from the corner of the Library building to the crossing would also be a vast improvement. It is announced in the Government Gazette of the 19th instant that His Excellency the (Governor has been pleased to appoint Hugli Garden Seth Smith, Esq., to be tha District Judge of the new District Court of Waikato and Thames. Mr James AUom and Mr Thomas Kirk have been appointed clerks of the snne Court at Thames and Hamilton respectively. A v^ell known resident was brought up at the Police Court yesterday before Messrs C. S. Stafford and Thos. Wells, J's.P., charged by his better-half with exot'SMve drinking. After hearing the evidence, the Bench dismissed the case, and the prohibition Older, to obtain which the charge had been made, was not grunted. The largest and most perfect plaut of wood-working machinery in the colonies is that of the Auckland Timber Company. limflerise stocks of seasoned timber and manOfactUreu goods enable them to give best value and great despatch. Messrs Fraber and Speight are out for the Thames ; Morris, Swindley, and Kel'y for Tauranga ; De Lautour against Hobbs for Bay of Isknbs ; and Mr William Swanson will again stand for Newton — if he is ile.ki.-d. The Australians have now played ten i matches, won six, drawn one, and lost three. It is said that a bar of iron worth £1, if worked into horse v shoes, is woith £2 ; if into needles, £70 ; if into penknife blades, £650 • if into balance springs for I watches, £50,000. From the mines of Nova Scotia in 1883 j 15,446uz. of gold wore obtained, 52,410 tons of iron ore; 1,422,553 tons of coal, besides other minerals. It is staled that Her Majesty's ship Nelson, flagship on the Australian station, has, dm ing her three years' commission, just closing, lost by desertion over 200 men out of a total of 500. Since 1860, the number of public houses in the United Kingdom 1 has decreased by 1,210, despite the fact that the population has increased by seven million. It is estimated that over 100,000 mis- | directed letters annually find their way to the intelligence department of the dead-letter office in' Washington,- Where experts re-direct them; with their seal unbroken, to their prefer destination. ' The New York prisons last year em- [ plowed 5446 convicts on contract work. Among these where 1770 on' boots arid I shoes ; 1246 on stoves and hollow ware ; ; 858 on saddlery and hardware; harness, &c ; 623 on" knit goods, and 376 on clothing. , In the naval do6kyarcf of Russia there is now far more activity than" for some time past. Six new wur vessel* are to be launched before the erid of the approaching summer. Two of the number will be frigates, two cruisers; and two gunboats. New ZpaUu.d banks for the quarter ending 31st March la*t had deposits i amounting to ovei £9,000,000, while the [ coin and bullion in hand only reached a t total of £1,886,000. A man had met a girl in a lonely place and forcibly kissed he;. She was terribly indignfa'nt, and had him arrested. She gave an account of how he gazed at her ; intently, and then, suddenly throwing his i arms around her; imprinted a ki»B upon her lips. The prisoner made no defence, and the jury was expected to promptly I convict him of aßsanlt. They returned to the Court room.- ''The ju-ju-jury w-w-would like to ask the young lady two i questions" the foreman said. The Judge consonted, and she went on to the stand. " D-d -did you wear the j-j jersey that you've g-g-got on now?" "Yea, sir," , was the deirmre roply. " And w-w was your ha-ha-hair b-b'-banged liko that?" " Yes, sir."^ "Then, Your Honor, we acquit the. prisoner on the ground of em'tf- , IUU-titoUonal tiMairity."

M. Emile Gruinpt has offered to the City of; paris Ihr unique ■ collection of curiosities relating to Oriental religions, comprising, 11 ,000 to 12,000 gods, goddesses, fetishes, and other objects 6f superstitious veneration, as well as a. quantity of Japanese porcelain, nnd a libriry of 4000 J ipaneae and 3000 Chinese books. A private correspondent of the Pnll Mall Gazette, writing from Kernberley, draws a somevyhat divafy picture of the state of trade in the diamond fields', and indicates that the lon^-expected turning for the better has no'fc yet taken place. The change o,f fortiino which some have experienced by the bidden collapse of the niincs is remarkable. .He says :— " I met a irian .who had the offer two years ago of £280,000 for his interest in Ja^erst'ontein Mine, and refused, and lie his now without 20s to his name. Another man here is keeping a butcher's shop who could have got £7J,0()0 for his interest. The present depression hat killed dozens one Way or another, and not a few have broken down iri health and gone off the fUlds. People call it ' scrip foyer.' " The New Zealand Meat Preserving Company comm'otoced curing raUbits at the vVoodlands (Otago) works some days a»o, but it is stated that so far supplies have not been equal to requirements. This would appear to indicate that rabbits are becoming .scarce. A Christchnrch, a girl named Bella ! M'DonuM, aged 17, in trying by means of a hairpin, to ascertain the nature of the composition of a dynamite cartridge which her father had left lying about, had the first and second fingers and the thumb of her left hand shattered. Grocer who has lately joined the militia, practicing in his shop. " Right, left, right, left. Four paces to the rear ; march !" — falls down trap-door into the cellar. Grocer's wife, anxiously ; "Oh, Jim, are you hurt?" Grocer, savagely, but with dignity: "Go away; woman \ what do you know about war ?" The petitions to His Excellency the Governor by the Maoris, praying that no plnblician's Jieeases should be grunted in the King Country are still being signed and transinited to Mr O. O. Davis. The Memorial, which ims been printed and circulated extensively among the natives interested, is sufficiently definite ; hut hlany warm advocates of the projected prohibitory law supplement the prayer of the memorial by adding in writing some sentiments of their own. The following is a specimen of the Maori utterances on 1 the subject: — May, 1834:— We the members of the Ngatipare tiibe of the people of JNgatimaniapoto, residing- at Mangawhero, fuliy concur in respect to the contents of this document (i.e., the memorial to the Governor), that no houses for selling intoxicants be allowed within the boundaries of our block of land. Sufficient. We hereby sign our names. fMgned : Te Para, Te Kornangn, Te Whaki, Te Kuri, and 32 other signatures. —Herald.

The conditions upon which the right to the Waiorongomai tramway has been granted by the Warden to the Pi.iko County Council will be found in another column. They will be a subject of much discussion amongst those interested in the mines, and doubtless there will be a considerable diversity of opinion as to their fairness. It cannot be said that they are in all respects satisfactory, and, in our opinion, it would have been much better had the scale of charges been definitely fixed at so much per mile, and the clause regarding the finding of labour by companies using the line, might alsolnive been' made more clear. With these exceptions there is, so far as we van see, nothing very objectionable in them.

Work ift connection with the new crushing mill on the Wuiorongoraai cieek is now in progress. A survey Ins been made for the water-nice and a contract let for clearing the timber half a chain in width along its course, some 60 chains in length. The race is about 300 feet above the machine site, arid It is estimated that with the water at command this fall will give 60 horae-power nearly all the year round. The machinery will be different from the ordinary crushing appliances now in use here and elsewhere; stampers being altogether dispensed with: The quartz vvill first be broken small by rrfean? of storie-breaking machines, after which process it will pass through hard-chlllea iron rollers, thence into the Mackay pans. and from there into other apparatus. The process of treatment will, it is s>aid, be of the tftost complete desciiption. and it is anticipated 1 that a much smaller percentage of gold will be lost than by tWe ordinary method. The machinery will rYe driven by a hurdy-gurdy whee£ capable of working lip to 100 horse-power. Messrs Fraser and Tin'rie are the contractors for erection of the plant, and, according to the agreement, they are bound to have it completed in four months. Arrangements have been made with thi County Council for the repairing and widening of the Knver track so as to admit of the machinery being conveyed to the site. Tenders will be at once called, and the work proceeded with as Quickly as possible. There are, it appears, doubts in the minds of some of the directors of our mining companies as to the gold saving capabilities of the battery, for instructions have been received by the managers of some of the more important mines on the hill to select " seven pounds of stone, not too poor, nor too rich, but of fair average | quality," for the purpose of having it i tested in Auckland. It will, we imagine, ibe difficult for the managers to select from a reef, 5 or 6 feet in width, a fair sample in such an infinitesmal quantity ; but, apart from tliat, such testß only lend ; to mislead those who have them made, and they are of little or no practical use, for they invariably give much larger re turns than can possibly beobtaineJ, even with the most etfreffrl manipulation,' u"nder the ordinary process of treatment. The directors would have found a more simple way of satibfying themselves by having some of the Btuff treated after it leaves the tailings plant. So far as we know, there is no possible chance of gold es"aping before it reaches this .stage, and if *iy is lost,- the sure way of ascertaining