AWO ©Macimm WLnv# AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 145, 13 March 1886, Page 2

AWO ©Macimm WLnv# AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

• This ihove all — to thine own Keif be true, And it mu^t folios as the night the day, Tlion canst not then be false to an> man. 1 — SHAKESrKABE.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 188 G.

We understand th.it the lailw iv department liave limited the issue of tickets for the excursion from Auckland to arrive tHa evening to about 200, It is to bo hoped uH the hotel and boarding-house proprietors will spare no effort to provide accommodation, and make the visitors cotnfortublej so that there may be no room for complaint by any. From 12 to 13 tons daily are being reduced by the smelting furnace at Thames; the quarts now being treated requiring an unusuall}* large proportion of flux. On Wednesday evening last a farewell tea in honour of the Rev. T. J. and Mrs Wills, was given by his numerous friends at Paeroft, in the Public Hall. A large company assembled} and the tea, etc., reflected great credit to the ladies who pro vided same. A most pleasant evening was spent, and all joined in wishing Mr and Mrs Wills every happiness* Sergtx Emerson, on Tuesday, arrested a man named R. P. Percy alias Cook, who was working for the railway contractor, Mr Livingstone, for issuing a valueless cheque, Mr R. S. Brown, of Morrinsville, preferred the chance. The prisoner was brought up on Wednesday before Mr W« F» Hunt, J.P., and remanded till Monday next. Other charges of a like nature against prisoner are pending. All hoises entered for Paeroa Kices on Wednesday next hive nccepted, and a very successful meeting is anticipated. Bishop Luck will be at Paeroa on next Sunday. An old Thames resident named Mr John Mungun, some time manager of the Bright Smile mine, Thames, expired here suddenly on Tnur^day morning. He had been in a very b<id state of health for a long time, suffering from the effects of paralysis, and on Uis arrival, .March Ist, was in a helpless condition. His death is supposed to have reunited from another stroke of paralysi*. His son was staying with him, and accompanied the body to the Thames (by one of Messrs Bradley and Co.'s coaches) same nigh One of the daughters of deceased is married to Mr J. H. W al«*h, the genial hotel proprietor at Ovyharoa. Mr Gsinieron, contractor for the Te Amli a Station building- 5 , arrived this week, and already the hhtreka station building utxd goo h shed have been brought from there an 1 placed in position. Mesars Bradley and Co. announce thiM will run a special c> uh rom Te Aroha to i*aero* raeei.

Varied entorri'i.iment ;it the Public I fall, To Aroiia, this e % ening Mi>ssm W. A. Graham, Hamilton, K« j F. Hoche, Te Arohu, .mil T. Welh, Cambridge, Irive been appointed a Board of lieviewers undor "Tlio Property Assc*- . ineiit Act, 1885," L"or tlie districts contained in l he counties of Raglan, Waikato, Pinko and Wuipu. The d itc <»f meetings is to be fixed by the board. Newspapers have built up enormous fortunes. The offer of a million sterling has been refused for the New York Herald, which Bennett started in a collar. The late Levy Lawson, oC the London Daily Telegraph, was said to be worth two millions. Mr C. A. Comes forwarded this week to the Thames Smelting Company some six to eight cwt Galena, obtained from the No 1 reef in Champion Lode claim No 3, nUo same time borne 201bs carbonate of lead ore. Next week a start will be made to break out quartz from all three Champion claims, to be forwarded to the furnace. - One of the proprietors of the new patent smelting furnace at Onehunga,haB written to the effect that they were prepared to treat a trial parcel of a ton of quartz f*om the Tui mines, free of charge. I This new process, it is said, surpasses La Monte'fi for §aving all kinds of minerals,. Monthly meeting of the Piako County Council to be held at Hamilton in future. A prospecting track to be made in the vicinity of Stoney Creek* Messrs Blencowe and Hyde's tender at £1 7s 6d per chain has been accepted for a further extension of sledge tracks at Tui. | From what is termed Kirker's reef, at Tui, 3 tons of stuff rich in carbonate of lead, have been broken out, and a contract been let for packing same to the end [ of track made by Comes' and party to No 3. Champion claim, from whence it will be conveyed to the Thames furnace. Horticultural show at Cambridge on Patrick's da}* ; special inducement offered by railway depjutment. See advertisement. Di H. J. Spepr, M.D-, from Auckland) medical specialist, may be consulted at the Palace Hotel this evening and to-inunow (Sunday). Dr Speer returns to Auckland on Monday. Dr Speer's advertisement will be found in our columns.