OHINEMURI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 7 April 1888, Page 2

OHINEMURI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Anotiikk consignment of the Waihi Go's machinery am ml per KotuKu on Thursday last at Vacroa. This consisted of the bed of the engine— -a large casting- weighing nearly three tons, and about fifty otlirr pieces of machinery. Messrs Dickey & Co. iiuniediately commenced carting the same toils destination. Messrs (Gibbons and Co., of the Junction (lax mill, shipped a consignment of 22 tons prepared flax on b'mlay "uorning 1 per Kotnku, en route for the Home market. The prices now being paid are highly satisfactory ; .Messrs Gibbons finding that a far larger margin of profit is obtained by shipping direct, than by sending through Auckland merchants. A trial of speed of tho .Function Timber Mill was made a few days when it was asct'i'tiuni'd that if necessary 2f>,(H)o feet of tnnbei per diem could be put through. Captain Bet(i». the lvoll-lcnrmn skipper of the " Patiki," has letiied from the Thames Steamboat Co's service, his place being taken by Mr Thos. Smith. On the iiist trip of the steamer under the new regime, on Tuesday , she being manned by an entirely Fresh ciew, something went wiong with the machinery, the result being thai the boat had to forego it 1 - trip to Te Aiolui and remain at the Junction all niyht. Tho lesidents at Rnngio'a, Thames River, are agitating for the constitution of a school within their district. They oiler a site free, and assistance in cash of £20 to the Board of Education. Theie aie now about twenty children of ■school age in the disttiefc. There is little to report from any of the mining ei/nties. Ileitm.in and party, tributeis in the Woodstock, are gotting out another crushing which .should p ove remuneiative. Farmer and pnity at Owluiroa are al^o on some very l.tir iliit. Snodgrass and paity are woiking on a good lode in the Bonny Jeanne at Karnng.ihake, and ill \no and another are driving for what should be something good in the Specimen Hill at the same centre.