0H1NEMURI. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 223, 8 October 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

Thhkk will be a large field of candidates to contest the county election whioii comes off hero in November next and some of the would be councillors nre already doing a quiet canvas so as to ascertain the feelings of the elector*. For the Paeroa Hiding no leas than nine persons are spoken of as probable candidates and should even six of these go to the poll thecontest for the three seats to represent this riding in the Council will undoubtedly bo a hot one. New blood is required for Karangahake to fill the position which Mr Humphreys now occupies because ho has left the district and will not seek re-election. As yet no announcements have been made, but it is very probablo that there will be at least four candidates for the two seats to this riding, and a tough fight will of course be the result. It is rumoured that there are a couple of dark horses coming out for Waitekauri which is now represented by Messrs Moore and Corbetfc, who are both very likely to again seek the suffrages of the of the electors, and therefore a pitched battle may be anticipated. The Maori will case which has occupied the attention of the Native Lands Court here for the greater part of the last ten days was decided on Wednesday in favour of Mere Whikiriwhi who wil! therefore in 4 he Ynoan time enjoy possession of the property of the d<o>a c *l chijf Hape Revvi. Applications for rehearing in all the cases where Mere Whikiriwhi's name has been substituted for thab if Hape Rewi have been made on behalf of Retii TotoMatia and the whole question will again be gone into at the next fitting of the Land Court here. At a .meeting held in the Auckland Chamber of Commerce last week for the purpose of discussing matters affecting the welfare of the mining industry, with

the recently elected members of Parlininont, Mi'smn i\(lnni Porter mid John Brownboth cxpicsiod theiuselvesas beiiw; aversejto the cutting of prospecting tracks which they said were- unnecessary to tlio ilovolopoment of the unexplored portions of the Cnromnndel mirifeious belt, nnd that they had never known the cuitin^ of such tracks to lead up to any gol I discoveries. Had this rtatcment ommint«d from any of the other persons \tlio Att'-nilud that niet'tiiii* 1 J would not, h:iv« i had the slightest ho.sitation in nUiihutinif it to their ignorance of a prospectors requirements, hut. this |»lon can soiucoly I'd ttdvancod as an oxi-ine for the action of the gentlemen na.ned, and therefore tho only citncl'ision I can cou-o to ithat they must have boon suffering from aHt ot temporary iiiHanity; and in styiug so I am merely giving oppression to the opinion of every j>ractical man in the district who has read a report of tho proceedings.