Te Aroha Dews AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 70, 4 October 1884, Page 2

Te Aroha Dews AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE

•This abovo nil— to thino owi-solf hfl true \nd it must follow us the night the day, Thou canst not thon be falsw to any nmn.' — Shakespeare.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1884.

\ Polling take pace to day in the matter of the proposal of the Piako County Council to raise the loan of £9000 to pay off their debt. Particulars will be found in onr advertising columns. Every hody having n vote should come forward and record same in favour of this loan, us it will be to the general good of the district that the loan be raised and the debt paid forthwith. Waihou post-office transferred from Air Rowes to Messrs E. Graham and Co.'s store on Ist inst. Receipts for telegrams abolished on Ist inst. Lease of Te Aroha Tramway for 10 years to be sold by public auction by Mesos Tonks and Co. at their mart in Auckland on Wednesday next. The entertainment given at Waiorongomai on Fiiday evening, 26th nit, by the Keep it Dark Minstrels (local amateurs) was a decided success. The attendance was good, and the company acquitted themselves most civditibly, and wvre heartily applauded. We should have been pluised to have fuller particulars, but only received same late last night. Football match this afternoon as announced in hist issue, viz., Aroha and Waitoa v. Wiiiorongom ii and Quarteville. Sale of Messrs Whitaker and Stafford's cattle at Waiiakau on Tuesday next. See udvertisement Tiie Quartzville post-office was re-open^d on Ist inst, Messrs Wells and Soutter having been appointed postmaster. We are heartily glad that the just claim of the miners to a branch post-office has been recognised, and the want once more supplied. Mails will be conveyed uphill thrice weekly, viz., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Friday. The migration of the British aristocracy to America and the colonies is remarkable. Lord Makerville's son has given up Jaw and taking to " ranching" Texas ; Lord Dunsany's son has gone to America for the same purpose ; and Lord Huntingdon and his son, Lord Hastings, are now ispecting Florida, with a view to settlement. Biitish capital is more flowing out ef England. A fearful discovery was made in a hut at Mount Gellibrand, Victoria, about a fortnight ago (says an exchange). The overseer "of Mr Strachans station had occasion to visit a hut on the estate, and found the corpse of a swagsman in the chimney. The man arrived on a Saturday, and asked leave to stop on the station. He was sent to the hut on Sunday, provisions and newspapers being given to him. Nothing more was seen of him for some days, when the ovwr.seei, in passing the plac«», saw a rope tied to the gate, the other end of which was down the chimney. On investigation, it was found th.it thu man had been jambed into the chimney and roasted to death. It is surmised that he had gone; out during the time, and that the wind blew the door shut ; then, as there was no handle to the door, he attempted to get down the chimney, tying a rope to the gate to assist his de->-ceut. When half-way down he came in cotact with a bar across the chimney, and was stuck fast, being unable to get either up or down. He had lit a fire previous to going out, and heuce was literly roasted to death. Local telegraph office now open from 7 to 8 p.m. We would direct attention to Mr D. J. Frazers new advertisement. We have good reason for stating that we believe a daily mail service via Waikato is being arranged for, now that wo have a daily train, and will shortly bo commenced. On Thursday last Mr E. K. Coopor served the Returning Officer, Mr Pavitt, with a written notice desiring him to consider his nomination withdrawn. The Act, however, states that two clear days' notice prior to date of election must be given by candidate desiring to withdraw his nomination* Messrs Booth and Robinson, contractors (labour only) for the erection of the public, hall at Waiorongomai, have lost no time in commencing the work. The blocks and ground plates are atl down and the framing well forward. The work is to completed within six weeks. Our local timber merchant, Mr John Gibbons, supplies the material. Messrs Bradley and Co. despatch from their booking office, next W.irren's Hotel, each morning at a qu.irtci* to 7 a well-up-pointed fast coach to meet the train for .Auckland, reaching Morrinsville in time to allow passenger to breakfast at Buck* Phoenix Hotel. Above coach leaves for '

iiTiirn jourtHsy on imivnl ot' train each afternoon. See advertisement. Mr Piivitt baa received a letter from Mr .1 B Whyte, M.H.R.., with reference to tin' petition re the opening up of the native and other reserves in tliw district. Mr Whyte states that he has presented the petition, and that the Government seem favourably disposed to granting the request of. tlwwe signing it, btit ho lias not yet received any definite reply. A contractor in the New Find mine had narrow escape from n seriom acoHont on Wednesday While engaged at Work he partly slid and pirtly fell down the No. 2 winsse from a heigth of, 30 feet, landing heavily in the drive betow. Luckily he he esccaped without any serious injury, hut the shaking he recieved will unfit him for work for a few days.