Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 63, 16 August 1884, Page 2

Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

•This above all— to thine n-vn-s^lf b^ true Aud it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be fnlso to any man.' — Shakespeare.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1884.

The football match, Aroha v. Cambridge takes place as at present arranged at Aroha on this day foitnight. Football match this afternoon, Te Aiohfi Representative Team v. a local United Team" Play to commence at the racecourse ground at 2.30, weather permitting. Players are requested to put in a punctual appearance. Messrs Laybourn Bros, (whose advertisement will be found in another column) have got comfoiUbly .settled into theii new store at Waiorongomai, and are now well supplied with goods. The amount of business done during the short time since they have opened has far exceeded their expectations and been most gratifying, and we are glad to know that their efforts to establish a ready cash trade amongst us has met with the success it deserves. More than once we have in these columns advocated the desirability of our local storekeepers offering greater inducements to people to pay for their goods at time of ordering, as the great loss of time and money through booking and collecting ac accounts, bad debts, etc., being saved, any and every storekeeper can afford to sell to such customers at a great reduction off ordinary prices. We understand Messrs Laybourn purpose selling for cash at as neir Auckland rates as possible, with of course freight, etc , added. The firm is well known for the uniform excellence of its goods. We are requested to state that To Aroha customers will have their orders executed at same prices as those living at Waiorongomai, no charge being made for the extra distaj.ee in delivery. A trial will be the most satisfactory way of testing the value they offer. Members of the Library Committee are requested to meet iv the reading-room this evening at 7.30. Through the inclemency of the weather the usual fortnightly meeting of the Te Aroha Band of Hope, which should have been held last Tuesday evening, was omitted. Next meeting will take place Tuesday, 2Gth inst. As will be seen by advertisement in another column all persons indebted to Mr Laidlaw, in connection with his Waiorongomai butoheiy, are requested to pay Bame forthwith to Mr Henry BaskiviJleat Waiorongomai, or to Mr Laidlaw, at Te Aroha. We regret to have to record that an instance or two of house breaking has occurred lately in this district. The la^t case happened at Waiorongomai on Tuesday hurt when a miner named Robeit Nelson, occupier of a one-room shanty clobe by the three new dwelling-houses just erected by Mr P. Ferguson, had his house broken into and the sum of ,£l 15s abstracted from a carpet bug. Mr Nelson, who 13 woi'king in the New Find, left home at 2 p.m. on Tuesday foi his shift leaving all safe, and on returning at 1 o'clock same night, found the door had been burst open and the robbery effected It is to be hoped the miscreant will not escape detection.

Mesm'R Bradley and Co. have made! nrangemoTits to run u fast daily coach in •onncction with tho trains, on tho opening • f the line to Morrinsville, and will enry •^spnger* and goods at very reasonable f urges. This will prove a ui'ent convenience for traveller^ to from our district. As will bo s»cn bv advertisement Mr Fred Gordon now curries on the butchery Up Hill. Nominations will Iv received up to noon j on Monday n -xt at the Court-house for i candidates for the vacaut seat on the Piako County Council. The content now lies between Messrs D. Murphy and W. AMurray, Mr J. B. Smith having withdrawn. Both of the first-named and their I friends have been Im-dly engaged canvass ing, and the contest ia expected to be a close one. We have been requested to contradict that part of Mr Laidlaw's advertisement appearing in last issue, which stated that he had discharged Mr Henry Baskiville from his employ. This it appears was incorr«ct. The advertisement was worded according to verb.il instructions received, ' and we regret tint any error shou'd have boon made. Mr Laidlaw has disposed of his butchery business nt Waiorongomai to Messrs Graves and Bask'ville, by whom same is now being carried on. No time has been lo^l by the Committee, appointed at the meeting- last Saturday evening, in carrying out the work entrusted to thtin. A copy of the resolutions parsed was forwarded on Tuesday to Mi J. B. \Vliyto, the member for the district, and his aid solicited in i'urtheranee of the desired objects. A petition to the Government has albo been prepared, and is now in course of signature, relative to the native and other reserves refeired to at the meeting, and praying that facilities may be given for the permanent settle- ! ment of these lands. The attention o Mr Whyte has also been directed to the uimoured alterations in the time-table of the Auckland and Waikato railway to take place on the opening of the branch line to Morriusville, and his assistance requested in obtaining such arrangements as will enable passengers and mails to anive here at an early hour. Messrs. Price and Malcolm, of Auckland, the contractors are now nearly through j with the various buildings, station, goods shed and station master's house at Morrinsville. The contract for the buildings at the hureka Station will be finished about a fortnight later. The linn lias made an excellent job of the work in hand. The contractor ior the line arc also finishing up their work. A hornbie death is reported from ttockhampton. Cornelius O'Donnull was i drinking in a public-house at Gracemere on Sunday morning, and afterward* fell | dowh in a passage at the back of tlte house. When found some hours afterwards it was discovered that pigs had torn away a portion of the lower pait of the body. O'Uonnell died while being conveyed to the hoppital. A bankrupt ex-publican, who was under examination at the Thames District Court on Wednesday, was aaked to account for the unprofitable nature of his business i during a certain period. His explanation j was to the effect that, the house having been newly opened, it was necessaty he should earn the reputation of vending good liquors, and he w.ib therefore obliged ] to sell everything without the addition ' of water. In consequence of this avoidance of dilution, there was less than the ordinary margin ot profit upon the transactions—in fact, aoaieely any profit at all.— Herald. An honest Hibernian, in recommending a coy/, said she would give milk year after! year without having calves ; " because," said he, u it runs in the br.ide, for she came of a cow that never had a calf." ! It is said tlr«t offers ranging from J1 29,000 to £32,000 have been made for | the Triumph when repaired. At Buchanans line of reef near Parkes Town, 5570z5. of gold were obtained from ! 127 tons of stone. Certain parties, ignoring the general wish and inteiests of the settlers, are i bringing influence to bear to cause the j alteration proposed to be made in the hour j of departure of the train from Auckland to Hamilton from half-past eight a.m. to eleven a iv. There appears clearly to be ! but one opinion on the matter throughout the Waipa, Waikato, and Piako Counties, and that the time-table should remain as it is. One thing is certain, not only will j inconvenience be caused by late ! arrivals of mails, but travelling, especially by women and children, be much lessened. A private telegram received from Wei lington states that Mr Luke, the member for Waipa, at the solicitation of settlers from all parts of the district, is urging uuon the Government the desirableness of leaving the time-table unaltered. — HeraldAt a Salvation Army meeting in Wairarapa the presiding officer invited thobe present to give their experiences of conversion. Presently an old gentleman, a Htranger to the district, went forward to give his experience. Pie started by ex1 pressing his opinion that the army made' themselves too familiar with tho name of the Deity. This hardly suited the officer, who said that was not the sort of expori- ! enco they wanted. The old gentleman was irrepressible, so the officer called out, " lloli the chariot over him," which cvi-

lently liiennt Kinging him down, for immediately a swinging hymn was started, and . the old gentleman h/>d to subside. Daughter of the honso (to a gentleman with whom she has been flirting dosperitelytho whole eveivhsr, in a whisper on liis taking leave)— Next Tuesday I Rhajl bo at home the whole afternoon ! Visitor -So shall T. A girl working a steam sewing machine iv Sydney got her head cauijht in the niiichinarv, and before she could be extricated one-half of her scalp w-is torn offA number of pieces of land in tlieOhine•miri gold fields district, containing G5,918 acres, have been declared waste lauds of the Crown. Of this area are several piece* received for native purposes, in all containing 6b\% acres, thus leaving 01,282 acres to be administered by the Crown Lands Boaid.— Herald.