SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. 1885.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 86, 24 January 1885, Page 2

SAT UR DAY, JANUARY 24. 1885.

Monday next tlie householders in this district will be called upon to elect members to represent them on the various Jk-hool committees for the enduing year. The occasion is one of much importance, ami the 'interests mv( Ived arc very great, and we desire that nil who have the ritfhf of e.VTeiMny a vote ia the matter will bear this in mind. Too often the election of school committees is made the occasion For a display of peisonal, or party fueling, to the injury of all concerned. Surely if there ia one question more than another with regard to wiiic.i ' puny feeling in any shape or form, should lie entirely sunk, and all combine for the general good, it should be in the matter of having the. best possible arrangements made with regard to the. education of the young ami rising generation. Parents and guardians having children attending tlte public schools of this colony, have a grave responsibility resting upon them in this matter, and at these annual electkns should be animated by the one sole desire of returning as tlrei representatives men thoroughly qualified to discharge the duties connected with their office in an impartial and satisfactory manner. No country in the world has more reason to be proud of the arrangements ptovided by Government for tfte education of its inhabitants than New Zealand, and the amount of benefit to be obtained therefrom, will of necessity be greatly influenced by the good or ill administration of such matters in connection with working of ■ the Education ' Act, as are entrusted to the various school committees. This year Waiorongomai has been constituted a separate and distinct school district, and will have a committee of its own

Nothing of importance has occurred in any of the mines during the week. A full report will be given in our next issue. Special attention in directed to the advertisement for tenders for the supply of 75,000 aleepers, which closes Febuary 13th. School Committee meeting's next Monday evening. Tenders for the construction of three mil<?R of road, gravelling four miles, and bridge between Crawfords gully and the Piako «*oad for the Tamahere lioad Board, are called for by advertisement, which will be found in another column. Tenders close Monday next at noon. Mr Geo. Wilson Receiver of Gold Revenue, has this week been notified from Wellington that he is to continue his duties in that capacity after Febuary Ist as at present' Previous instructions to the effrict the County Council would have to arrange for collection of gold revenue having' been cancelled, pending 't'tutlier legislation.

Mr K. Pv-el, our local mineral wate/ and cordial manufacturer, has during the past fortnight refuted and br ttlod a considerable quantity of the mineral waters as taken from the Hot Springs Domain. Tt has been favourably spoken of by all who have tasted it. Good newß for everybody ! Five additional private baths (each fitted with a shower bath), are to be evected at once, under the able Ruperintendency of Mr Crump, ns addition** to the present No. 3 hath house. Alro, both cooling and W!iitin«r room**. Tim will be a gre>t boon to both readouts and visitors, the existinir accommodation b-ing totally insufficient for the demand. Tt will be remembered th»t some little timv» nft*n an e.\ton i <iv<>!v--i!gnod petition wit forwarded to WfUinerton, prayimrtlnt Government would tike the npep«wirv steps to enable persons in this district to pn reliant' the freeholds of their hinds if they desired to do »o. A letter has just, been received Htatinuf that " tho Government doos not pi opose to allow >my portion of the Thamoß High School Endowment to bo alienated." Tim is a most unsatisfactory and incomplete reply, as nothing is said with regard to tho Maori and olhi\i reserves, which were specially referred to in the petition. A real treat is promised for Thursday next. The p.a. Patijci has been chartered to convey an excursion party to " the Willows" on that day. Great preparations are being made fora very enjoyable outing, and a concert is to be held on board on the return journey. With such fine | Rummer weather as we. now enjoy, and a full muon, we feel sure there will be a run on tickets which have been fixed at popular prices. The steamer will leave at 10 am. For further particulars, see advertisement. Meetings for the elections of school Committees are to be held at tho following places, and at the hours stated, on Monday next in this district :— Wuihou,Te Arolm WaiorongomttJ, Te Aro^ft West, at 7.30 Morrinsville, Ohinerott, and Oliinemuri, at 2 p.m. The school room being in each instance the place appointed for the meetings. A« will be seen by advertisement tenders for the now private baths, and other improvements in connection with the Hot Springs, close at 4 p.m. Thursday next, 29th inst. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Crumps office, where tenders (addressed to the chairman of the Board) must be left. It will afford pleasure to tho many friends of Hen- Carl Schmidt in Auckland . and elsewhere to learn th.it during his stay ut Te Aroha he has giv itly improv d in health. The baths have been most beneficial in reinvigorating him after his long and serious illness, ami he hopes shortly to be able to return to Auckland with such renewed energy as will enable him at once to resume his professorial duties. Visitors to the Baths during the week ending Jan. 23n1: — Airs and Mks Gibbons, Mi-se>> Peny, Mrs Cleveland, Mrs Gillespie and family, Mrs John Head and family, Messrs J. S. Walton, H. Kenrick, J. A. Miller, A. Wood, and C. B. Da\i,-s, Thames ; Miss Fretilin, Mi- It. J. O'Suu - van, Misses Lockington, Auckland ; M/ss^n W. Dance, Joseph Savage, Waihi ; Messrs R. C. Young, M. R. Young, J. W. Gr.ffin, John A. FitzgoraH, Holit. Fisher, Cambridge-; Mr James Fisher, Gre,\ month; Mr John Fisher, Pukwrimu ; Mr John Elliot, Ptu in; Mr A. B. Wheeler, T.uua- , here ; Mr Jas. H. Phillips, Raglan ; etc., etc. The following aro mentioned as probable candidates for scats on tho Waiorongonidi School Comtnitteo, Messrs Lawless, Brown, Adams, (all members of existing Committee). Gallagher, Smardon, Ihom, Murphy, Ferguson Buttle. Of the four Te Aroha members now on School Committee via., Messrs Ahier, F raiser, Cuff, and Xlott we understand tho first three huve decided not to stand again. The following have been named as probable candidates, at the forth coming election, i Messrs Geo. Wilson, Gibbons, Ilo:t, Mackie, Dobson, Hetlierington Gavin, and Peel. No doubt others will be proposed when the time for election arrives. ' A match for £10 was arranged between the owners of the local horses Black Rose and Stanly and came off on the racecourse last Saturday afternoon. The day being fine, there was a considerable gnthering o* sporting men and others, who were interested in the event, which resulted in « win for Black Rose. Two or three other matches were got up on the field, and made a good afternoon's amusement. The sport wound up with a foot race betweon two local perls (Messrs Cassidy and Johnson) for £2. distance 150 yard . The race was a most exciting one, th<; men keeping abreast of each oth°r ahnos 1 to the finish, Johnson winning by a short [half yard. We learn that a letter was this week received troin the Rev Mr Mclntosh Presbyterian Minister, announcing that owing to continued family affliction which prevettetd him from returning to fulfif his pastoral unties here, he considered it his nlutjj to send in his resignation of the , charge. A meeting of the Church Committee was held shortly after the receipt ' of the letter, and it whs resolved that Mr j Mclntosh\s resign itiou be not accepted, but that he be granted leavo of absence 1 for U further period of three months. An (

intimation of ther-Nolutm.'i Ij'h Inen wirH to him and to the Presbytery through Mr Neil I, of the Thamas. Most of our readers will he sincerely gM if the health of Mrs Mclntosh, which has been the cause of the rev. gentleman's detention, is sufficiently restored to enable her to accompany him buck to Te Aroha long before the three months have expired. The usual meeting of the Te Aroha Bunk of Hope was hold on Tuesday evening last, Mr John Lamb, of Auckland presided. A capital programme was presented to n large audience. Songs were excellently rendered bv Miss Mills, Messrs England and Whitebouse, and recitations songs, &c , hy other members. The Drought it) Qieensland. — Tho following is extracted frun ft letter re. ceivi'd from a guntleiuan in Queensland: — ''The diotmht in the north-west of Queensland h>is attained frightful pro-poiMoim-3^,000 cnttle are already dead tit Mount Cornish, where they have 60,000 Goodness knows how m.my will go, as no r;iinluLs\et fallen tiiwre. Olhiir stations adjoining have lo»t from 10,000 to 21.000 — tlie latter herd was lost entirely by a friend of mme 1 . The Queensland supply of fat cattle to Sydney will soon cease, and and you may l(>()kl (>() k for fabulous prices ruling there within two mouths." — Dunedin Herald. An elderly Scotchwoman went out one day to an apothecary's shop for prescription of two grains of calomel for a child. Seeing the nruggest weigh the medicine with scrupulous exactness, and not thinking he did this from anxiety not to give an overdose, but from his penuriouHiios-* <>r «!eaire to trive u« tittle a possible for the money, she said, "Dinna be ho mean wi'it, man.' It's for a puir faitherless b-iirn." Something Like a Rope !--- A wire ropo has just been manufactured in the works of Sir George Elliot, M.P., at Cardiff, for | the North British Railway, which is 2,30) fathoms in length, or 2 miles 108 yards. It weighs 21$ ton. Nearly 100,000 fathoms of wire huvo been used in making it* This huge rope is to be used in working) the trains in the tunnel at Glasgow? between Queen Street Station and Cowlairs. A poor emaciated Irishman, having called in a physician, as a forlorn hope the latter spreud a huge mustard plaster and clapped it on the poor fellow's breast. Pat, with a tearful eye, looking down upon it. said, " Doubter, doohter, dear, it strikes me that it is a p.ile of mustard for so little mate."