The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 219, 10 September 1887, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

1 TUis Hbove all— to thine own Belf be true jind \t must follow as \\\e "night the day, Thou canst nojt then 'be' false to any man.' — Shakespeare.

SATUnf).VY,R^PT)tkBEft 10, 13873:

Tuis^refccnt discovery of valuable ore by near Uikuiaia, contiHUo* fo.be the all absorbing- topic of the daft-niftl has imLi^Tific>,lfi>he shade For die time being. Nor is this to be '\v<M).i:.'-vl at, a 9,' j'H^t^by tlie. general nfp.'.irnnoo of the r«jsU and lne 6XC'e(i^mg!y tiijii results obtained from the vjTi'm- ."s-smvs of "ore 'taken therefrom, 1 1. is h.» !.j»i.»miscs to prove one of the most iii4>.-ttanfc discoveries iuade on thy riauraki gold-field' l [or a nttmber of years past.l Ore thing it is sincerely to be hojH'.l it will do, via , force upon the attention of Government and the various local bodies t4n» 'advisability/liny rather the absolute necessity, of opening up for the prospector, by means of roads "and Hacks, the whole of the llauraki,9}ining thstiict, for it may tie taken for granted that the lich deposit cf ore so recently uneaithed by the prospector, Mcßrinn, is by no lut-ans an isolated exception/ but that tunny such exist to be yet discovered. The result of five separate tests of quartz taken from the recent find, and assayed by the Bank of New Zealand, Mr Montjjoi.iory and othcis, hare givenr osults at tiie rate of from 03 to 9S ounces of gold, and from 1775 to ILII ounces of silver to the ton.

We Wrn with rttcitf that Mr Turner, loc.il Biink of Now Ze-dand agent, who has heeu.iilingfoi some little time-pa-a i* now seiiously ill, and in a very weak condition. Tho patient is under tho euro of. Dr Wright who has been unremittingin his attention to him. A special meetine; of the Te Arol.a Town Bout d will be held this evening at eight o'clock, to receive ami consider Mr J. A Milleis opinion le sinking a rate as pioposed, and to decide upon some course of action in connection with this matter. .Attention i* dhveted to Me»sts Alfred , Bnckland and U-o.'s announcements of foith coming sales by .nation. Thi* day, at C'ainbiidire, side of horses; vehicles and harness piuduce, etc. Live stock, <cc, atOhaupo on Tuesday next. See advt. • Tradesman are cantioned against taking, forged not«>s, several of: which aie in circul-i : tioi?. Three- photojji.ipheci copies of a! 'Bank of New Zealand one-pound note,! isMiL-d at Auckland (Mo. D 1*27889) lmvo been tiaced, a.s they were parsed at Dunedin, North-east Valley, and Green Island.; Thft monthly meeting o£ To Aroha Domain Board, adjourned from hist Saturday through lack^t* outrun}, will be held, ihfs evening^ at KP-jfi-f \ ' * ' Ohinemnri County* Goqncil announce by ■advertisement that the' date, pn and.af-tor which all unpaid rates wpuld ho sued for without further notice, has been,extended from Sept Ist to Oct. Ist. . A numbe,r_pf shares in the Crown G.M.. Co., K;wMn.gahilko\ bohl by Huctibnl-eyLliHejl the following priefs : 77b", 1^ 6*ll pqr rhaie, 895 brought Is 2d7. Mr Joseph" Stacey being- the purchaser oc tjne^yhohp.. We; le.irn with regret of the death* (oh i sth in««t , at Thames) of Mr Jofin P>"MaFI, .Ihe well known and ile(?erv(*dlyu^sD6rott|d| manager of Ihe AdHin6- \x\\\v other 1 at K.intngrtUftke.^' ; 3l!-Slall->Ya9-J)nlj| l\\ yeais of- age (Tml died of^-ineer.j He w -,\f\ regarded im qno-o'f.'tlie lnoS.t fiitelHgent ar (i reliable af'on.r iniri« nianirgcrsj' 1 Hb'Avji^ manairer of tlie'Sliotovcr'Ctfhijiany, whicli woiked ilxPioneer oiiQAQlth^tj^hamirt goldfield, .also of thdf.'ilmwn' Ertbefc am] Albumin mines, TlmnreS"? andjpiUffe lokatea, at Coromandel. The funeMto >k place.at Thames o<i Wc\lflf»H<lfl\inrienfc(|n, 'jin«lVu<w^ atte«qed.T /Miffe jmanareis*Fivenvisons. -4nd tlm rmblk - ly_. abscmbk-rf lo pi>y -t l.«*t| token^ of resp<tc.t to tb«' decea^ytlv The Rev. F. (}. Evans, olnYi.it*)* ( aithe gvuve. ,-;: / 5 | , 'The quarterly iWeeting o 'f:the AY|wli)i" Licensing Committee was ] ](i \ x \ 'aH: Motri 13ville on last Saturday. . Pre-ient,; Messrs Chepmell, TT U rhbwH^ a " d M>ina f and" II Pan;. Albert G^bp'insey ojf Wnihou 'made application 'fri'r ' a" rehfear ng with respect to Jmb ritfnuul H;ens©f wlfich Avas re£ust'(l him "ut.the. atinu,al meeting held 'in 'June. Th' c '"application jv-as refused on the ground that the •6oh"»i»«e •iiad 'no pqwer to "re-consider a decision ( given at th« annual iiWetiagf^ Albert GabolinVcy also 'm/ide' Application f r 1 a new publicans-l icense, f,or, tho Waihou 1 Intel. The nppliciition \*as : not enter-, taiucd, the committee having no powar to grant 'u certificate' for 'tlfe'J^tie^^f such license e^ept at the tnnuul meeting.? There is notbhig of special interest to add to hint week'b report re mining misters in vhi.s diHtrict. - At -Waiorongomai the furnace is kept steadily at work, and 'after d few days more the whole of the brickwork, etc., hhuitld be sufficiently seasoned to admit of. its being worked up to its full capacity. The retort for the past month's crushing at Messrs Firth and Clarkes battery resulted in a yield of 118 02. (ro torted) from the New Find, and 9o^ 10 dwtB. (z;etorted), from, the May Queen,

. Nomination \f candidates \£or/fdtyufco£iing\ble;otiims taVe\ J p|ace on Saturday wit: ; i '": ;. jj 5 1 kttor.tion Js directed . t<> Mr* Ji M. Murray I }* announG x eih,entB'of forth cojn ing auckion£ajes ;\is advertised in ouV cqlarqna to-day. | ' * *••* Mv W. flethrington advertises coal at greatly reduced prices. The railway line id'nbw op^nftor gfrbctV traißc and conyeyan6e of -parcels 4rom,,< Otorohantra to n Te Kuiti ; but passengers will'iftftf.ul prefient^b^conv^yed^ver^liis^ portion q£ the finq.* - ' x By adveTtisentent it-will boseenthaMhft. well known entire Kenilworth will travel through " Arolia and'' sui rounding: district -this season. . The quarterly meeting of To AToha licensing committee, would, in the ordiqary way, have been held on Saturday last; hut there was np.>u?iness~ whatever to transact. « „, ,^"\ > -<W-J- ' ** „ lt A Reuters telogranv' dated Sytfney, Dili instant, stated that— "A Government notice has been issued fixing the hours of workftf jcjvil servants from nine a.m. to rive p.m., and nine a.m/to noon on Saturdays all the year rqUnd," w : '<\ t would appear thai ' some of those on upying residence; ,sites on tbe^ Thames High School's VVaiorongbinat township coAsMW'ihV Cental exorbitant, as,; at the meeting -Of the >Boarduof Qoxernonj on Monday last, Mr Marshall-said he had been sp6kenitorO.n the ,subjpct, one of the persons informing* himUhut he km paying "5s tnfich as t £%f)pr a^e for the land. The Secretary *f Mr4lfeiild) explamelVhdwever^ that no person occupying a residenco site 'wds chHrgpd mqrp t^an £i per uunum, but if one person helcj eight of these and' chose to use them for a m irket garden, of course he would have to pay £8 for the ■ wliolo, while were a business site used as a j-esidence site the charge would also be £1. 5> — Thames Star. i • ■ .'The usual monthly meeting of the ttjuud of Governors gof Thames High School was ' lreld at Thames on Monday hi,st ; when the following application were considered : Mr J. Go Id's worthy applied for a transfer of half of section 22, township of 3Yiijoi'4 n o9, im ' l j» to r 'W* pRi)th, to whom had 'disposed' of it. Sir W.T. Jjii tli Applied for a trans fer from himself to Messrs Graves and P>askiville,.to whom ho had sold the section purchased fri»J«i. _Mi Goldswoi thy. It was nienjipned that the firm to whom Qic tran fer was to be made, was a highly respectable fiim of butchers nt Waioronfomai.' The price given by them to Mr 'irth was £250, whil^ the amount paid by Mr Firth to Mr Golds-worthy for thnsame was JE IOO. On the motion of Mr Marshall, seconded by Mr Danby, it was a«;iecd to tranter to both pai ties. Mr Danby : I think there should be boihc fees to the 1 Hoeictary for this. Ihe Secretary: The fee is a guinea. A lot of dead woilc has been done, this being the fir^t paid for. — Advertiser. The long continued depression in the Colony i«* being severely felt by all chides. Pi ices obtainable by farmeis for thcii produce and stock hnve been most uureniunerative, in fact dibheaitening ; and farmer^ have been unable to employ hiboui to anything like the- extent th.it proper attention to the cultivation and inprovcment of their land demands ; the result bein^ the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. A lecent issue of the Herald contains the following paragraph .—"At the J.ibt monthly meeting of the T.nn.ihere Highway ftoard the question 06 wages was fully discussed, and the members present pointed out that the local bodies wjre doijig the farmers an injustice by keeping up the rdto of wages to (h a day, a sum which no' farmer could afford to giv-u,.. It was_resolved that in future 5s only, should', bo % for a day's woik itifctend of 6^, anil that" 9s per clay should be the \yages_ given by the Board for a liian and * one-horse dray, instead of lYs per day "as now. The' Board's surface man was present, and accepted the' reduced, rates." But perhaps no class of society has felt more severely the long continued depression than those who have never been trainedto other than light employment, and are unable to earn their biead by manual labour. -In-all the business houses cutting down, both as regards the number of hafids employed and the rate of wages paid, hasibcen jstetidily going for a^considerabl^ time past In" many instance's '-old and tried hands have .been paid off, their ein'ployers being-quite-unable to keep them on. We kpoWjOjiQ large establishment; in Aucklarid • SvJfer^Lno^less than five qlejks receiv.edjiotu^jia one wepjt <la,tely ;' and UicH'o.areJiuncfrMs of sucl^vufi the present timq.Wo » The follolvin^pcopy-o'iSlin advertisement >vh;ch itpjie^i^.^pl^JVkn^j 's' HeTJi.rd',^eJikB v^ily mes^as to the stpo of the ra'nrket for dtSrk ■ Tiiu^t rm good* IhoOKke^pBP,/''qu Ck ?lna"%^jfi)l&tbv}-fbag6sp 1 5s "to\ start -auditor •eßU)niy- i rQq4iir|d—^d-^^^c." ' v r J£h;e. Auc^l iupfl 1 Star<pop # espo"nfrent writes follows: The venemb*fe'*Arcß'de^c'orr* i Sto€k, who ii in .^UloE^edrthj* is- fhttkih'gii Qvrrange.hionts to jvJBJt_TpjAroha Hot SprmgST ' ' . 'wiThe'ttiMjjr frietWal-pt ..Rev^.*J.- Wills in" thisi district will bo, pleased, fco hear ihe ; is '-making his; influence) ifblt.ffof,, good in •the district trto which he;\yss mcently appointed, OpotSlri!;"-imdfha.s lost jnane'of Ins-zeal -in the-cau«e-of teniperanc.e. Since his arrival sit Opotiki a temperance mission nitfelitTgs^-oX l&ldildvjery weoK, an* alreafly o\Vr x 50 k i\iJimjei%Miave been enrolled, r, c\i { -\ '