Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

Te Aroha News, Volume 64, Issue II, 23 August 1884, Page 2

Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

'Thie above .ill— to tune owu-solf bo true And it must- follow us the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.' — Shakespeare. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1884. Owing to pi ensure of other matter we are unable to publish our usual mining r eport. Nothing of any importance, however, has occurred since our last issue. Te Aroha Band of Hope next Tuesday evening. The Robin Hood and Little John Hotel, Te Aroha, whb ?old by auction on Wednesday last in the Public Hall, by order of the mortgagee, and purchased by Mr Ehrenfried. Mr Jas. Ciaig officiated a« auctioneer. Owing to the inclemency of the wenthe on Tuesday last the sale of the Alphabet Co.'s piv>ppities was postponed till thin day week, the 30th inst., when they will bo disposed of by Mr Jamos Craig, at the office of the Battery Company, without reserve. The nomination for candidates to represent To Aroha Riding on Piako County , Council took place on Monday last at the Court-house ; Mr John Hunt, Returning Officer. The following were duly nominated : — Mr Edwaid Kersey Cooper, by Messrs James La very and John Farrell ; Mr Denis Murphy, by Messrs Daniel Jamefi Frazer and Thomas Gavin ; Mr William Archibald Murray,, by Peter Ferguson and David Brigham. The nomination passed off very quietly, nothing in the form of an address being attempted, beyond a few remarks from Mr Murray of the same character as uttered by him at the recent meeting in the Public Hall. . The story goes, the Whitehall Review says, that when, at Monte Carlo, a loser at the gaming tables commits Ruicide in the gardens, the attendants stuff his pockets full of bank note*, and when the victim is brought in it is Joudly explained that with so much money found on him losses at the tables could not be the cnuseof his having killed himself. On t>ne occasion, so goes the story, a shot being heard, the attend- . ants, rushing out, discovered an Irishman ' ]) ing apparently dead. They immediately filled his pock ts with bird? notes and retired for a stretcher. Before they e.mio

5 ».ick t howi-ver, tiio me blii>f,UwM'ii 'I'* 1 « r o|<f into n broad irn'n, and h||i|'% i % n< l rraeefully retired from the pcene^ liwHjur 1 nd t\. wealthier niaii. IPL**^* Fn ttie ln«t Gazette tn hnnd. /w&nftt TtliV in Hppll'^ Mn o|l " P»tent for wiriyqntion f<>r cnvinr " fi'>-!t i*oln\" under flip title of 1 H. P Firth* Flo»it Gold Saver," is mmie l)y Mr Wtn. Thornton Firth, of Anekliind. In sum^ Gnzptte »in appliontion is innde Ky Mr Willi.iin Aroliilmld M'HTfiy, ,of Piako, for an invention for straining nnd securing 1 :ho wire in wins fences The concert and dance in Waioronpromni School-hoiise (permission to hold which waR cranted Messrs Louis Kalman and Jnhn Shea at la t niuetin^ of School Committee) takes place on Friday evening next, for purpose of raising funds to clour .school ground, and erect swings, etc*. Mr R. K. Cooper addresses the electors in the Public Hall tins 'evening at 7.30. The election of a candidate to vacant *eat in Piako County Council comes off on Monday next. The polling will tal& place at the Court-house, and very great interest is felt by all classes with regard to who will head the poll. The election is likely to be a warmly contested one. We are requested to 6tate that until further notice all Wesley an services will be held in the Wesleyan Church. In our advertising columns will be found a notice of the concert, to come off on Wednesday evening next, in aid of funds of the Church of England. The programme is an attractive one, and as this is to clear of an old standing debt, we hope to see a crowded house, and the debt paid, or nearly so, from the proceeds. The following aro the names of the Aroha players in the match to come pff" here next Saturday with the Cambridge team :— Verity, (Captain) Trude, Parker, Whitehouse, Beandale, Stewart, McFarlane, Uinton, Hawkins, Purdy, O'Shen, Sheehan, Lynch Gordon and O'Donoghue. Emergencies. Gapes and Ellis. A boys' match, Morgan town v Lipseytown, will be played this afternoou in Morgan's paddock. We have much pleasure in stating that there is every probability that a third battery will shortly be erected on our goldtield, the Inverness Co having decided upon erecting crushing machinery of their own.