(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

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

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

Thr Hex. SI Lavfry ."delivered a bic^ure in the I*ublic Hall hero on Tuesday, evening laSt, on tno ail imporfctirttf subjects oFv " Courtship an.l Marriage." There was a -very fair attendance of young; peoiMe\tmd ( Ihc^discouisej Afcaa highly .amusing, and also Very instructive? ' Mr/A. W.\ Cuimjin ep,uip.le4od[, n lps tour ojthe Ohinemari County, on Saturday last and be is quite satisfied with the results of mission, to most of the centres of population. ''A^Vailiron' Friday Mf* (Dad man rcceived^vptd, of thanks and confidence by a considerable majontyj'and at Waitekauri' on tfie following night he was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. The foot ball match between the United (Thames; and" Mountaineers, (Ohinemun) , came off in" Mv Nicholls paddock on Saturday last, and after some very binart play on both s^des time was called and the ganii 1 stooij ; Mountaini'ers 5 points, United nil. Wikiiiwhi Hautongo, native assessor, who died at his residence near this township on Tuesday evening last was a prominent Ngatitametam chief, and much respected by all the Europeans of the place. He was in in receipt of a pension from Government of .£4:O a j'ear, This is the second death amongst \\\d local natives within tho last week. The \ other boinq: that of Wiri'inu Te T.iira a relative of Meha Te Moananui, and a " tangi" upon a larc^e svalo i» now being held over the remains of tho departed chiefs. Mr J. P. Hall, who died at t'ue Thames a few days since, is sincerely re^rettod by everyone with whom he cam<3 in contact in this district, and especially by the men who worked under him during ' the time he had the supervision of. the Adeline and other mines in this neigh- , bourhooiL ..." • i