SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1884.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 69, 27 September 1884, Page 2

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1884.

One of the workmen on the County train way mimed Alex. Jamieson, was rather seriously injured wln'le at work on Thursday. In braking two trucks of quartz alon^ the line from the New Find hopper to the top of the May Queen Spur grade, he got j.immed between the trucks and the Waiorongomai Company's shoot,, wliieh pr-ijccts close to the tramway, and sustained some severe bruises about the lower part of the buck. He was at once conveyed to his home where his injuries were attended to, but it is likely to be some time before he will be able to return to his duties. From and after October iKt mails for Wnihou, Morrinßville, Hamilton, Waikato, and Auckland will be closed on Mondays, WednesdayB, and Fridays, at 8 p.m. Hharp, and maili* will arrive ftom those places on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 6,30 p.m.

Wo »r» pl-»n«^d t<) lean Mntt'ie Intt -ry to be erected by Messrs P. Ferguson & C . is now about to bo vigorous 1 y pr«>ueedo i with. Some doubts li;i ♦• recently no<vi expressed us to whether it would be gun on with at all. hut these, it seems, wvr altogether groundless. The contractor f<i the wid ning of the road to the batten site has been instructed to complete hi* work as quickly as possible, mid rs soon thereafter as the machinery can be got to the ground, its erection will be commenced. No tenders were sent in to the Piako County Council for the leasing of the tramway, and we have been informed by Mr Firth that it was decided at the County Council meeting on Wednesday last that the leasing of the tramway be off «red by public auction through Messrs Tonka and Co., in Auckland, on Oct. Bth for ten years instead of five yenrs as first proposed, as. in the opinion of the Council, a five years' lease terminating in the middle of the term of ten years, for which the proposed loan of £9000 is to be raised, would inter fere disadvantageous^ with the sale of the debentures re proposed loan, and that it would be hotter for both lease and loan to terminate at the same time. The County Council declined to make any other alteration with regard to the conditions of leasing said tramway, save that they reserve the right of making one bid at said auction, the amount of which will not be disclosed prior to the sale taking place. We understand it is thf* intention of tlu> Postal authorites to transfer the Post Oftlce at Wuihou from Mr Rowes store to j that of Messrs E. Grah uu & Co, the change ! to be made on the Ist October. ' Mr John Read (Thames) calls for ten ; ders for the conveyance of 50,000 sleepers from Te Arolia to Moirinsville. For particulars see advertisement. Te Aroha Band of Hope Committee meet Tuesday evening next at 7.30 in the Wesleyan Church, to make further arrangements for the future carrying on of the work. A young woman named Mary Collins, better known by the soubriquet of "The Doric," was arrested on Sunday last by Sergeant Emerson upon the charge of lining obscene language in the public street. No J.P. being available nearer than Mr T. F. Roche that gentleman was sent for, and the prisoner brought before hrn on Mond.iy, and was by him fined £5 or one month's imprisonment for above miscon duct. A second charge, that of vagrancy, was also prefeired against her, and a sentence of three months' impnsonnient parsed. The prisoner was conveyed by the Waitoi to Thames on Tuesday last in charge of the Sergeant, from thence to be conveyed to Auckland to pass her four months, in Mount Eden Gaul. As will be seen by advertisement Mr E F. Roche offers a pure-bred Hereford bull for sile. Lust year in this colony 292 persons (253 males ami 39 females) met with acci dental deaths ; 146 of this number were drowned. Burgbries in Auckland are becoming uncomfortably freqtunt. Mr Greenahields sends us the following, statistics in connection with the world's patents, at the end of last year : — American patents, about 300,000, yearly increase about 21,000 ; British patents, 140,047, yearly increase übout 6000 ; French patentß, 172,000, yearly increase about 6000 ; German patents, 26,084, yearly increase about 5000 ; Belgian patents, 60,043 yearly increase about 3500 ; Italian patents, 14.250, yearly increase obout 1250 ; New Zealand patents, 991, yearly increase about 230. Owing to a high scale of charges, the Australian colonies are a long way behind ; but young Now Zealand, thanks to low charge*, in proportion to the population takes out as many patents as the Arnen3ans, and three times more than the British. Advance New Zealand !< — Herald. i A tragic affair occurred at Droylsden, near Manchester, recently. The wife of a , well-known cotton spinner, Mr Egerton, kept a number of tame linnets in her bath room, and observing a cat on the window sill of the room, about half-past ten in the morning. Rhe called her husband's attention to it. He took out his gun into the garden with the intention of shooting the cat. Just at the moment when his wife moved to the window he pulled the trigger, and the lady fell dead, shot through the head. The Te Aroha Band of Hope held their meeting on Tuesday evening la^-t. A report of which we are obliged to hold over till next issue. Messrs Bradley and Co. will run a coach to Morrinsville to meet the train for Auckland each morning, returning on the arlival of the up train from Auckland in the evening. As- will be seen by advertisement a concert will be held in the Public Hall on Friday evening next, for the purpose of raising funds to purchase the necessary instruments to form a brass band in Te Aroha. Full particulars will appear in the programme. We have no doubt the movement will meet with hearty support from all sections of the community. The Rev. H. Bull, of the Thames, will preach in the Te Aroha Wesleyan Church to-morrow at il a.m., and at 3 pm, will preach to the child run of the Waiorongonuii Sunday School, and at 7 p.m. he wil 1 ' conduct oerviue. Good congregations may

'»o expected, h< thesi' will lv the fir^t ,m liversnvy services field at WrtioronirMinai. I We would drnw special attention to tin* large and important snlc (if M'^ri vVhitakor and Stafford's nttle on th^ir Wairaknu furm, conspqu >nt upon thcr i. iviriL' disposed of th Itmd to Mr Dnvnes The stock includes 50 dairy eow<, 80 empty cows, 2 pure Hereford bulls, and a number of young stock, etc. The sal < ■ takes place on Tuesday week (Oct. 7), and will nfl >rd u good opportunity to intending purchasers to supply their wants. Mr J. S. Buekland will officiate as auctioneer. On Tuesday last a meeting' of ratepayers was held at Warren's Hotel to consider the proposal by the Pinko County Council to raise a loan of £9000 to p.iy off their present liability with regard to the tramway. The meeting was presided over by Mr K. K. Cooper. Very considerable discussion took place respecting the mattei, an I rebiilted in a resolution being passed in favour of the loan being raised. Only one amongst those present dissenting. The burning of the affigy of Mr W. F. Buck land by the Miners on the Hill last week was quickly communicated to that gentleman, and a telegram was received from him to a resident at Waiorongoma 1 on Monday stating that he did not object to be burnt and blasted, but thought it a very un-English proceeding to try a man and condemn him in his absence. Mr Buckland is evidently forgetful of the golden rule which siiys " do unto others as we would have them do unto us." Ho should have thought of that when slandering absent miners in the House. As for the burning, to which it seems he has no particular objection, we hardly think this species of political martyidoin will enhance hi^ reputation or standing either in the House or with his constituents, however notorious it may make him in other respects. In .saying this much ,we do not for a moment uphold the practice of effigy burning. Boys and girl* are not allowed to be out after dark in Walla Walla, Washington Territory. No tobacconist can sell anything to children under fourteen years of a^e, and no liquor is sold on Sunday. A diffident youth was paying his ad- ! dresses to a gay lias of the country, who had long despaired of bringing things to a j crisis. He called one day wlKn she was alone. After settling the merits of the weather the girl .said, looking slyly into his face : " I dreamed of you last night." "Did you? Why, now?" "Yes, I dreamt that you kissed me." " Why, now ! What did you dream youi mother said ?" •' Oil, I dremnt slie wasn't at home." A light dawut'd on the youth's intellect, a singular aound broke the stillness, and in a i'ew weeks they were married. An unfortunate man, named Anderson, who al one time occupied a good position, in society — his father being Sir George Campbell Anderson — was found dead on a road in the Wairarapa district. The Wairaiapa Star, in rocoiding the had event, s ay* :—": — " It seems almost incredible that the '•on of so distinguished a man should meet his death through cold and privation in the darkness of a frosty night among the deep mud of one of the worst roads in Wciirarapa North. The deceased appears to have come to this colony with letters of recommendation to the Yen. Archdeacon Stock, but for reasons which that gentleman can possibly explain, poor Anderson applied in vain for admission to the colonial police force, and he succumbed to the dangers incidental to following the genteel but precarious occupation of a private tutor in an outlying district. At the age of forty-four the man, who but a few years ago was u captain in the Army, and a Secretary to a Chief Justice, and that Chief Justice his father, died positively 'in a ditch.' Such are the ups and downs of colonial life." A countryman \*ns sowing his ground, when two smart fellows came riding by. one of whom called out, with an insolent air : ' Well, my good man, 'tis your business to sow ; but we reap the fruits of your labour.' The rustic replied : ' Tis very like you may ; for just now I urn sowing hemp. The Irish population of the earth is in round numbers an follows :—lrish: — Irish at home, 5,500,000; Irish in England, 2,500,000; Irish in Scotland, 2,000,000 ; Irish in Canada, 2,000,000; Irish in Australia, 1,000,000; Irish in America, 12,500,000; Irish elsewhere, 5,000,000. The Journal of Commerce, a Liverpool paper, of 14th July, contains an excellent descriptive and statistical account of this colony. It says :—": — " A young colony like New Zealand has to improve her harbours and make roads, and this cannot be effected without resorting to borrowing. New Zealand is certain to be as dei.Bely populated as England, and the expenditure now is like seed sown for a summer harvest. The British 'Young England' is nuking great progress, and with gold, coal, and wool, and a rich soil, she is bound to be1 come a maritime power." Owing to an axtraordinary infl-ix of advertisements, the "Times" of June 14th last was of unusual size, consisting of three j full sheets, or twenty-four pages, each page comprising six colums. An analysis of the contents show that 84J of the 144 columns were filled with advurlisumertts, the number of which was no less than 2509 ; the remaining 59|- columns cont lined -vrticles, reviews, letters, reports, uud para- , ;raphs on over 200 distinct topics> all this boinji gatlurcd in from the four quarters

of theg!ob\ edit -d, aid -^ 'i|' in "i feu hour-* ! Th • total length of tlv columns w:is 2B4CL, ami if placed n rH to end find stood upri-rhi, they would have reached to -i height exceeding that of the Monument by <i\tv-two feet. The superficial tiroa of the p» inter! nvittor was just sixt\ - one square foot. Tf the matter, instead of, hoinn broken up into columns, Iwd been .«et in one continuous line, it would have reached one mile 950 ( yareN, or the distance from Charing Cross to Cheapside. The number of seperate types used in printing this issue is cnlcnlated at over two million, and the quantity of printed matter i reckoned to be eqivalent to that contained in two ordinary octavo volumes of 480 pages each. The only previous impression of the paper which has attained these pro portions was that of June 21st, 18G1. The u Times" of that day was described as the largest production that lias ever issued from the d.iily press, and this description apjlieH to the recent issue, which watruly the best threepenny-worth of current literature we have ever seen. On Monday,. Juno 30th, Lord Fahnouth's stud of breeding horses was sold. There was a large company at the sale, and the pnVes realized were the highest on record for breeding stock. The whole stud fetched upwards of 76,000 guineas, borne of the yearlirgs went up to thousands of guineas, as did also the brood mares, and one of the stallions. Yearlings : The sixteen were sold for 18,350 guineas, or 1,140 guineas each. Two fetched 3000gs, each, and another 21U0., a third being knocked down at HOOgs. ; two others being sold for IOUOgs. each, : Mares : Theie were twenty-four brood mares* seveial with foals. They averaged lBo6g« # each, or 4.'i,34f)gs. for the lot. Top prices fur the choicest of those animals weiv 5800^., 5( 00^s.. 410()g5., 3200«-., and so on. Foals, ten in number, were sold separately, realising 64()0gs. or64ogs.each. Stallions : Five stallions made 7435g5., or 1487g5. eacl],Galli.ird, winner of several important races, fetching 3lioo^.s. Taking the horses all round, they t averagcd 1373 guineas each. Au estate near near Cheltenham, comprising 328 acres arable and pasture land, has been sold by auction for £17,250.