Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 65, 30 August 1884, Page 2

Te Aroha News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

'Tin-" nl)ov • -ill— to thino own-sflf ') > true \nd it must follow as tho night the day, Thou canst not thon bu t'alau to uny in»«n.' — Slmkcßpcarc.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1884

Messrs Mulling< i r and Brett have now coinplctcd their contract for laying 1 the Dernianont way on the Ilainilron-Morrins-ville branch line, and have notified the Government to take it over. It is probable therefore, that un early date will be fixed on for the opening of the railway. Mr T. A. Dnnlop has been untiring in bringing before the County Council the advisability of a higher level water-race He contends that if the batteries could be worked up the creeks m-ar the mines on low- level giade quartz it would mean new life and better times for the Thames, and hie opinion is well worthy respect. He produces Mr Beeres report, that i 5 head could be brought in from Puru at 300 feet, or 10 head at 590 feet, high enough for the Albumin, about 12 miles, for £100 a mile The Council has authorised a rough survey of the proposed race to be made. — Advertiser. Football playing on the Lord's Day in nothing to be proud of, and we regret to state that some of those who took an active part in the football playing in Morgan's paddock last Sunday, must, from their years and knowledge, have b«en well aware they were transgressing both the moral un^ divine law. Football, as well as everything else, must be kept within proper bounds, and playing it in the centre of our township on the Sabbath day, to the great discomfort of many of tho residents, is nothing less than an outrage upon chnVtian feeling and chiibtian decency, and we feel bound to protest against such misconduct. Several parties have drawn our attention to the matter, and we believe if repeated an effort will be put forth to see if those who wish to spend the Sabbath in peace and quieti.ebs must necessarily submit to be treated with contempt by (hose who have no respect for the Loul's day themselves, ur ivgaid lor tlu feeling of others. Mr Laidlaw finding his advertisemont with regard to his Waiorong-miui accounts has not had the des*rpd effect, desire^ u.s to state that all those accounts not settled forthwith will be sued for. The miners and others working up-hill naturally, and with good reason, think it vory hard lines that they cannot obtain postage stimps without coining down to Waioruugouicu for them. It appears that until lately tin; storekeepers doing business on the hill were in the habit of supplying same, if they had any on hand to oblige their customers and others, but this coming to the ears of the officials was put a stop to, being an infringement, of the law and punishable. Those who suffer great incon venience through this action on the pait of tlie post office officials, consider it nothing more or less than a piece of red tapeism. Now we quite agree that stamps as well as all other necessaries, should be obtainable up-hill, and that it is most unreasonable that those requiring same should be obliged to waste their time, and be put to great inconvenience, by having to travel down to the flat for them. But we do not consider the post office officials are to blame for octing up to their instructions aud doing their duty. It should be more widely known that any respectable storekeeper lms but simply to apply for a license to dispose of postage stamps in, any place where they are not otherwise obtainable, and can obtain not only the license free of all cost but also the usual commission for selling same. Surely then it ought not be too much trouble for any storekeeper to obtain a license and keep stamps on hand for the convenience of customers. We wicsh the Quartzville post-office was an easily re-established, as it is an institution greatly needed for the convenience of those working in our mines and on the hill. The only course likely to prove effective is by petitioning through the proper channel. Mr Barley, Primitive Methodist minister, from Thames, preaches in Wesleyan Church, Te Arohu, at 11 am. to-morrow, and in tha evening at Waiorongomoi. At the Pi.iko County Council meeting held at Cambridge on Wednesday last? present— Messrs J. C Firth, W. T. Firth, Cliepmell, Grouid, Cooper, McLean, Williams, and Brunskill; after the transaction of ordinary business, the Council went into committee on finance and tramway Management, and it was decided to advera.se lor tenders for working the tramway ' by contract.

Tlio lute heavy flood occasioned some damage at Shaftesbury. The bridge on the Mutamata road, on the west side of the river, has bsen seriously injured, and the eirthwork at the ends of it carried away, so that neither hoivse or vehicle can cross it. It ia highly dangerous as anyone passing along this road after nightfall might meet with ? n fatal accident, and requires immediate repairing. An embankment erected by Mr E. Y. Cox to keep the floods out of his kitchen gut den and orchard, was swept away. Tiie loan-to of one of the s "ttlei's li.mvs, collapsed, and se\ oral small outbuildings were blown over. Band of Hope at Waioronsromai next Friday evening, weuthei permitting. Mr Herbert I], Smith having found it necessary to postpone his lime light cntertfiiiinent, advertised as to take place here <m the lltl'i inst, will now give same in ihe Public li-all on this afternoon and evening, and also again on Monday evening. As we mentioned in a previous local the diorama bus been most favourably mentioned by the Press wherever exhibited, and we would strongly advise all who can not to miss this opportunity of spending .m hour or two in an instructive and pleasant manner. A special feature of interest will be tho exhibition op local views tiken b) Mr Smith himself, and to be shown on the screen. For particulars see advertisement Mr Smith will exhibit at Paeroa on Tuesday afternoon and evening Weiegrutto state that George Smallman, a little fellow of some, seven summers, got bin lea, broken a little above the ankle on Thuibday in the.sehoolgroundduringplay time. It appears the mishap was pnroly accidental, and no blame is" attached to any of his schoolfellows with whom he was romping at the time he fell with the result above mentioned. Tb^ fracture \va^ fortunately a simple one an 1 soon sot by L)r Cooper. The little suff-rer was conveyed to Mr Mardens's residence where he was shown every possible attention and kindness, and on Thursday morning was conveyed to his home near the site of Wibhons'B saw-mill. We hope soon to hear of his being able to rejoin his schoolfellows none the worse for the mishap. It is advisable that the public should know that with a view to affording greater encouragement for vaccination and re-vac-cination of persons over 14 years of age, i the-Government extend to such persons as may be desirous of taking advantage thereof the privilege of free vaccination. ! Persons desirous to be vaccinated therefore in this district have only got to apply to Mr Robson, local public vaccinator, when the operation will be performed free of all expense to them. No doubt many will take advantage of this privilege, more especially just now when thero is real trrounds for anxiety at th« too near approach of cases of smallpox. The old | idnge cannot be improved upon '' Prevention is better than cure." A petition, signed by Denis Murphy, l/ho*. Ga.m, and D. J. Frazer, has beiiii filed praying that the election of Mr EK. Coop-jr as County Councillor for this Hiding may be declared void on the following grounds :— " That holders of ] miners' Rights not being incapacitated by anything in Suction 41, Counties Act Amendment Act, 1882, were refused b; I the Returning Olh'oer, permission to vote | by virtue of their niineis 1 rights as provided by the «nid section." The case will be heard in the K.M. Couit boiore 11. ; Ivenrick, Esq., on Tuesday, the 9th of of September, .it 2 o'clock. A le'cutly received Homo paper says :■ — At a temperance fete, presided over b\ Mr Wilford Lawson, at the Crystal Palace, London, on July Bth, King Tawhiao, addressing the enormous assemblage in his native tongue, Raid, " be acknowledged himself proud of wearing the blue ribbon, and that he had for over three years been fighting against the consumption of intoxicating liqnors which in. flicted so much harm on his chiefs and people " We, in the colony, who remember his Majestys' royal and jovial progress through the island something less than three years ago cannot but smile at the hardihood of this assertion. Let us hope, however that he will remain true to the colours he now wears. Sobriety is a kingly virtue. — but ao is truthfulness. Residents on the hill will shortly have no reason to complain of any lack in the j supply of the necessaries of life and at i reasonable prices. A bakery is talked of, a butcheiy is already established, and Messis L tybourn Bros intend opening a store there shortly. May they all flourish. Wo hope that the population at the mines will so increase us to induce a still further influx of business people. The Thainen County Council Rends its Chairman to Wellington to ' prosecute j claims against the Government for £5000, alleged to be due from Ohinmnuri, also to press other local claiir.s. — Advertiser. The Auckland Star in an article on the proposed abolition of the gold duty — abso- i lute in the South, permissive in the North — deprecates such a course as calculated to inflict injury upon the northern goldfields j Our contemporary says : — Nobody benefits from the Southern gold duty but the miner who pays it. Even on the Nothorn goldfields the miner derives the chief benefit from the expenditure of the duty, through he does not pay it. Being paid by the day, or at so much per foot or fathom, the miner's pay is not affected, whatever may be the price of gold. Take

for instance Liio 'il Aroha gjldlioldy where from some mines past of the master reef the gold realises s3 6<6 < por ounce, whilst in those to the west of the same reef the gold is worth ahotlt £2 15s. Yot in all thewe snides the d illy pay is the same. It is clear the Northern miner does not p'iy the duty, whilst hcilargely beiufiU by its expenditure. Till Northern goldii «ld members nr n well n,war n that tho abolition of tho u'nM duty wtuld inflict irreat injury •in - :ii: ing inhrost-* in the Nort' , -md they have v»ry widely insisted that its abolition shall be rnly permissive so U\r\\< the Northern g-o!< fiVhh are concovned. Wo have no fuar tlat the ftold duty will he abolisehd. No d'en^iivr would ba so unwise as to reeom nond it. On Tuesday la*t vh itmisxhthavo provod a very serious acwdent occurred on th • tramway. Happens tho stop eliock at t l je top of the Ken Spur #oc out of position, the consoqueu ;e being that a loaded truck got unil-r wogh almost before tho man in clurge was iw.iiv, nnd oneonn tin ■teep decline weit down at a fearfu 1 speed, fortuuatoly, lowever, it uothiiwshod up b 'fort' r.-m-hiug the bottom. Had il been otlurwie thu conspqi.onues *ni«;ht have buen nu»vt dHUtrou--, s»jeing that a quantity of dynamite and detonators wei'c on a truck at llm foot of the spur waitinu; to he convesi'd up, mid in the event of n collision a i earful evplonion would probably have taken pi. ice. Fortunately no harm was done bejond the demolishing of tho U uck.