The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 140, 6 February 1886, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This above all — to thine own self be true, And it must tollow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.' — SriAKESPEAKE.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1886.

Owing to a number of: advertisements coming in at a late hour, we are obliged to hold_over several ..items of interest ,_til next issue . Aroha residents are anxiously awaiting the result of the Piako County Council's meeting (which willbe held next week) with respect to the much-neerled street formation and repairs. The summer is fast passing, a separate rate has been levied on the Aroha Riding, but nothing has been done worthy of mention, so fan towards putting the main thoroughfare*? in good order. The exiting state of affairs must not be allowed to continue, and rather than it should the sooner some form ! of local self-government is adopted the I better. The programme of the forthcoming Te Aroha Race meeting is advertised in this issue ; the meeting is to be held on Saturday, March 13th. A letter from Mr Win, A. Murray appears in this issue, from which it is evident he considers a dissolution of Parliament at no very distant date as imminent. Mr Murray apparently is in ignorance of the great improvements made in Te Aroha of late, and A'hich are referred to by nearly every visitor who has previously visited the place, and is the subject of a letter from an English Visitor in this issue. Mr Murray states also that the residents pay L 25 per acre annual rent — this is certainly news, as we have heard of no such instance at Te Aroha till now, and would ask who the parby is who has done so. It seems strange Mr Murray should evince such a sudden interest in Te Aroha and its dismal ! appearance. Why not have come to its rescue earlier ? Perhaps the impending dissolution of Parliament has something to do vfith the matter ? There is no mining news to report from Waiorongomai this week: The supply of water is still so small that only 20 bead of stampers, at slow speed, are going a. the buttery. These wcie started on Monday on New Find dirt, but aie now reducing quartz from the Galena mine. At the tailings plant 32 berdans <',re engaged on New Find tailings, the balance for the Battery Company on Galena tailings. The contractor has started the work of enlarging No 2 bath house. Rev T. J. Wills, Wesleyan Minister for this district, for the past two years, arrived by coach last night from Waikato, where he has been spending his honeymoon, having been married in Auckland the beginning of thejweek. We take this opportunity of congratulating the rev. gentleman on the event, and with numerous other friends wish him and his bride many years of happiness, prosperity, and usefulness. We are pleased to know that by later arrangements of Conference Mr Wills has been appointed for Gisborne Circuit, not Bay of Islands as at dne time intended. Notification is given by advertisement in this issue of the sale of houseft and property at Te Aroha in the estate of H. K. Campbell. Also on another account^ a four-room dwelling-house with three sections attached, in best part of Aroha township. Ohinemuri County Council invite tedders from those desiring to act as engineers and surveyors to the cotm'cil. An extensive sale by Government of valuable lands situated at Rotorua for a term of ninety nine years at low rentals will be held at the Crown Lands Office, Aucldund, on 3rd March. For' particulars see advertisement in this issue.The shareholders in the Champion Lodes at Tui Creek have arranged with Messrs Iletherington and McKnight to sledge and 6ar£ to" Aroha steamer landing sto 7 tons each of quarts 6btain'ed from No 1 Champion' LtideV and from the Wore recently discovered branch reef, where it junctions with the original lode near the boundary of Nos 2 and 3 Champion Lodes for shipment to r Jharaes furnace ; if possible by end of next week. The stone now being broken out is most promising in appearance, and that coming from' the* bottom of the winze improving in character. Mr E. Quinns name haß been duly gazetted as a n? ember of the Aroha Thermal Springs Domain 1 Board vice Mr EL Buttle, resigned. Mr John Lloyd, of tW Commercial Hotel, Waiorongomai, has been* appointed to fill the position lately occupied 1 by Mr Henry Buttle at Waiorongomai as battJer"y clerk and workman in connection with the* [ tailings plant. A great deal of interest is being desplayed- amongst local sportsmen in connection' with- the private match which

comes off on the Aroha race-course this evening at 5 <\clo'ck, between Me«sr« D. J. Frnzer'sTyntax, aged, lOst,T. Tierney'w Auctioneer, aged 9c t, imcl G. Giaves, Catch em, aged, 9st. The distance will lie two mileß on the flat, and the stakes £20 rtside. Mr Pat Carr will officiate a , starter, Mr F. Pavitt as judge, whilst Messrs R. Parr and A. Wainriglit will fi'l the positions of Clerk of Course and Clerk of scales, respectively. Tyntax, sd far, stands favourite, 3 to 2 being offered and accepted on him. Mr Frasser we understand, will ride hig own horso, but it was not finalty decided last evening who the other jockeys would be. There is sorao talk of Catchem not starting. At a special meeting of the Domain fioard held On last Saturday evening Mr Lavery's tender was accepted for timbe r for ensuing six months ; and was the only tender sent in for tirhber. The following tenders were opened for labour in conhection with the erection of further baths, dtc :—: — Messrs toothy £16 (acccepted) ; John Comes, JCI7 10s 5 Tom Robinson, £17 15s ; Byrne, £20 ; Mills and Tonge, £23 15s. The N. Z. Schoolmaster (Christchurch) for January contains a full report of the first annual meeting of the Council of the N. Z. Educational Institution held at Dunedin, a leading article there on and other matter of interests. At a meeting of the Waitoa Road Board on Saturday last the following tenders were opened for the extensi on of Johnston's Creek drain : — J. Wiseman, £377 (accepted) ; Collins and Voysey , £485 5 Hogan and Courtney, £-476 8s 9d ; Caldwell, £390; Shine, £497 14s 8d ; 0. McCabe, £469 ; McCloiid, £692 10 ; D. Ryan, £448. The arreas of rates on Native lands, £65 5s 7d it was stated, had been paid, also £1500 of the Waiorongo-mai-MaUngakawa Road Loan. Accounts to the amount of £450 2s were passed f 0 r payment. \ Piako County Council meeting on Thursday next. In the list of: officials appointed in connection with Paeroa Raee 6 !, which appeared last issue, Mr Mijury's name was inserted by error, it should have read Mr John Phillips of the Puke. Whilst two men were excavating for the new bath-house about to be erected over No 7 spring in the Domain grounds this week, another hot spring was found, giving a good oyeiilow. The water is very hot, 130 degrees, and the discovery a most important and valuable one. 1* is intended to eomieot the two springs, which should afford a splen lid bath equalling, if not surpassing the celebrated "No 2." The contractors have made a start with the erection of balcony and verau.liih foi the Palace Hotel. The January number of the N. Z. Country Journal (Christchdrch) contains an index of last year's volume, a review ot the past year, report of a lecture on " The Chr>mistery of Milk and Butter" delivered at the Minister Agricultural School, Cork ; a well-wiitten article on peach culture; a list of some principal agricultural exhi bitious throughout the colony, with names of prize winners, etc ; sporting notes, garden notes, an article on the American Dead Meat Trade, etc., etc., an 1 altogether is li number which will be found well worthy of a careful perusal. The shareholders in the Champion Lodes at Tui Creek have put on four or five men to proceod with the work or! forming the branch tracks to tho lower claims/ in order to avoid further lo.ss of time in getting down gtriff, and we are infoimed will apply to the Ohinemnri County Council to sanction and pay for the wtfrk, seeing the urgent necessity for its early completion. Rev Mr Knowles, from England, will conduct the morning Church of England service" at Aroha to-morrow. The shareholders of the Waiorongomai mine purpose letting the mine on tribute. Mr Winter, from the LaMonte f urn, ice staff,- Thames, arrived at Aroha this week, and paid a visit of inspection to the Tui claims. The contract for a new low level in the New Find mine has not yet been let. Palace Hotel. Visitors' list : — Mr Hugh Campbell, Mr Bu-'kbey, Mr Muthias, Mr Win, Swamon, Mr Turner, Mr Micholl, Miss Porter, Miss Hall,- Mr" Wnltho, Mr Gosse, Mr Mulvan, .Mr Bell, Mr and Mr. Adam Portor, Auckland ; Mr Hnsie, Mr Kenrick, Mr Puckey, Mi Tapley Mr Banks. Thames ; Mr Souter and son', Cambridge; Mr Carter, Tauranga; Mr H. Minsholl, England. Te Aroha Club Hotel. — Visitor's Li&t : — Mrs W. J. Suiter, Miss Winter, Mr and Miss Maiden, Mr Mo vv bray, Mr James Thornton, Auckland ; Mi and Mrs Gallagher and child, Mr, Miss, and Master Fleming, Mr and Mrs Ross, Thames ; Mr and Mrs Rockliffe, Coromandel ; Mr Mil\nore, Hawera ; Mr Hannam, Mr Thompson, Hokitika ; Mr John Anderson, Denmark ; Mr Milner, Opawa ; Mr Quigley, Mr Walsh, Waiorongomai Other Visitors to the Baths :' — Mr and Mrs P Comiskey and family, Mrs and Miss Robinson, Miss E Ilott, Mr and Mrs J D Davis, Mr and Mrs A H Taylor, Mr D L Tui ncr, Mr A B Duncan, Mr J H Jones, Auckland ; Messrs C F Mitchell,- Brady, J Phillips, jim, Paeroa ;* Messrs Thomas ! and 1 Lord, Onehunga ; Miss Moon, Messrs McNicol and Chapman, Cambridge ; Rev Mr K-nowlys, Messrs Wilkinson, and; Wilke jtan, England ; Messrs Murray, Sadner, McGtawan, Winter,- Hetherington, Thames; Mr Powell, Keri ;• Mr Atkinson-, Christchurclj; Mr Kivu'gh, Queensland ; Mr otepheno, Howick.

The Illustrated N. Z. News this month haß for its first engraving u acene in con nection with the smelting of silver ore as « arrie'd on at ths Victoria Smelting Works, find represents the tapping of the furnace lo" slag- at night. A number of other woll executed illustrations ore given, together with a large coloured supplement illustrating the funeral obsequies of one of the Australian aborigines. The num ber will be found very interesting. Owing to the scanty water supply a large number of Waiorongomai miners are etill idle. In reply to the resolution forwarded to the Government by the District Hospital Boaul, objecting to tlio incorpoiation of the Thames Hospital ai a separate institution under the new Act, a letter was received on Monday by Mr H. T. Rowe> Secretary to the Board, requesting them to appoint a Commissioner in terms of Sec. 44 of the Act, who, with another Commissioner to be appointed by the petitioners, and Mr li. Ken rick, as Resident Magistrate, are to sit. a< a court of Enqu ry The District Board at their meeting next Tuesday will appoint their |)Com inissioner and the petitioners have one month from date of letter, 26th ult.j wherein to appoint theirs, after which the time and place fbr the enquiry will be fixed and cdmmitnicated to both parties. Pending the result of this enquiry, all proceedings as to the incorporation will of course be suspended, and the decision of this Court of Enquiry shall be final. Let us hear no more cant (says Truth) about the "noble sport," for it is evident that the English turf is now a vile welter of knaves and fools, and the Prince of Wales has beeti very ill-advised in pluriging into such a pandemonium. He is pretty sure oither to lose money like tHe Duke of York, or character like George IV, and in these times Royal personages cannot afford to place tliemselves in equivocal positions. The new elecjtorsjeertainly will not relish the notion of the enormous sum which the Prince receives from the country being squandered on the turf. We shall make a tremendous Radical stride after tho next election, and Ro'3'al personages will have to look sharply to their comings in and to their goings out, as their palmy days bf luxu rioiis idolenci' and lavish extra valence are pretty wel^ over. The general and strong feeling against Royal grants, which have been given with scanditlous profusion during the present reign, the queen and hoc family have received upwards of £20,000 001) fiom the taxpayers, is very likely to develope into anabhoirence of Royality as m institution, unless the great herd of Princes and Princesses are very careful in their proceeding^. We learn that Mr Robert Shnms, Clerk and Knsfineer to tho Katikati Uo.vd Bu.udhiis boen appointed to tho office ot Clerk, Trea-nirer, n'id Foreman of Work? of the Ohmeiri'iri C unity Council. The following institutions have applied to become i icoip orated as separate institutions under the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act : — The Hospitals at Wellington, Thames, Gisborne, Reefton, Westland, Dunstan, Wairarapa, and Arrow ; the Wellington Benevolent Institution, the Masterton Benevolent ciety, and th j Wellington L.idies Christian So'eiety. In an article on windmills tlie Scientific -^American says : — ''An 8£ foot wheel will raise 3000 gallons of water daily a distance of 25 fleet. Its first cost, including the pump and a plain tower, is about £56. A 10-foot wheel will raise 9000 gallons of water a uay a li.%e distance ;ind cost aboul £GO, including the appuitenaces ab'ovt mentioned. A 12-foot wheel will raise 16,000" gallons of water a drty, the above distance and cost, with the same appurtenances, £52. So up, from 14 to 16, 18 ti 20 feet diameter of w' eel, until wt leach a 25-foot wheel, which cost* aboul £240 and will raise 100,000 gallons oj water daily the specified di^tarice."