The Aroha AND Ohinemuri AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 143, 27 February 1886, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This nbo\e all — to thine own self be tine, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any nun.' SIIAKKSPniKF.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1880.

March the Ist, 1886, will be a day long to be remembered in the history of Te Aroha as marking 1 the opening 1 of the railway to our township. The occasion is an auspicious one, and the residents have rightly decided to commemorate the event by proclaiming Monday next a general holiday, whilst the authoiities have done their part by running a special cheap excursion train from Auckland on that day. The event has been long-looked forward to, not only by tho^e residing in this district but by the public generally. The occasion is, without doubt, an important one both for Aroha and Ohineumri, as the result of daily rail communication with the Auckland Province and City, cannot fail to have a most beneficial effect on these districts generally, a? it will be the means of inducing numbeis from all parts of the uoild to visit us who would not do .so whilst rail com- | munication were lacking. Of the , future of Te Aroha we have never had a doubt. Its central position, its immense mineral ueaMi, the curative properties of its thermal spiinys, the ex-J tensive agricultural land with which it is almost surrounded, all combine to render it a district that cannot fail to attract not only great numbers of visitors, bnt capitalists and others will Und a profitable outlet for their capital in developing the rich natural resources with which the cistrict abounds. Upon the mineral wealth of this and surrounding districts, it is not our intention to enlarge just now. Such returns as £22 per ton from quaitz obtained from the recently discovered and com-i paratively undeveloped claims at Tui Creek, and an average of £-12 5s per ton for 19 tons of quartz from the Adeline mine, Karangahake (only soma six or seven miles distant), both within the past month, cannot fail to convince the mo«t sceptical that enormous mineral wealth exists in both the Aroha and Ohinemuri districts, offering a most inviting field for judicious investment in the unearthing of this wealth. The lack of machinery for treatiug quartz at a reasonable charge has hitherto done much t^ letard the progress of of our gold field, but it is to be hoped this want will ere long be met and suitable plants be provided. The erection of such a splendid battery as the New Era, now well-nigh completed, at Waiorongomai, is a step in the right direction, and will no luubt have a very

beneficial effect. To the marvellous curative properties of our mineral springs, we need scarcely refer, as they are fast becoming celebrated far and wide, and must continue to attract large numbers of travellers in search of health, or pleasure. The completion of the railway from .Aroha to Thames, the new direct conch »road from Aroha to connect with the East Coast and Tnurnnga, the settlement of thousands of acres of agricultural land in the district, are all events to be looked forward to ; but we can even now with confidence assert that we know of no district whose future ie more promising than that of Te Aroha