OHINEMURI. (From Our Own Correspondent).

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 2

OHINEMURI. ( From Our Own Correspondent).

I \m iri.'id to st-ife (hat I am now in a position i<> refute the statements made by several persons a>- to the non-tloatmy; of the .Jubilee G.M Co, at W.iitekami. During an interview with Mr E. M. CovK'tt, that >j;ent!etn:»n ->hov,ed *uo the cablegram which ho received about a month ajro through Neuter's agency, wheioin the floating was announced implicit! v. Tin 1 c.iblegiani aNo state'] that £(!()() wns lodged at <me of the local banks, Mr Cotlx'M wjs nK> instructed in the, same me^anc to commence budding the proposed battery, a matter which had been arranged liefore Afr Coopei went Home. This plant when erected will treat the ore from tiie Jnbiiec at {^ per ton. Mr Corbett hn^ derided not to commence work until Mr Knr^oy Cooper arrived, which will bo in a few week", as his time is now fviHy ocenpied nt. Waihi. The boi^r, or rather a portion of about two thirds of it, intended for the pump' in? £r Ortr at Waiht, Wrt;? brouorbt up | o l^fvoa t't' 01^ Thames on Sahirdav last by a "pltndid team of 8 horses. Tt'was taken out to Wnihi on Monday last .^^cl\enna nnd party, tribnten in the Martha?Evtended at Wnihi. bronifht in USoh from six week's rnn of 20 head at the Company'^ battery at Wailu. The successful tenderer for the erection of the County offices 1 on the new township will immediately start his signatures have been attached so far. contra' r, The plans and specifications for the huiMinsr, which is very complete, were drawn np by Mr Wm. Tetley. A petition is lying 1 for signature at the Council Chambers, Paeroa, from a Mr F. J. Hawkins praying that the tofcalteafor bo abolished. Nob ninny A meeting of the Ohinemuii School Committee was held nt the Srcretary's office, Paeron, on Saturday evening last. Present : Mcssis F. Lipsey (chairman), Robson, Shaw, Cooto, an«l Eilwards. It was announced that Or Rudolf Hacnslev had, in return for his diploma and decree, been granted by tho Education Department a C 4 certificate, l)r Ilaensler is at present teaching at Owharoa and Mackaytowu. It was also nnnounccd that Misa I3askett entered on her duties as te.icher at Paeroa School on Monday last. Tho meeting was adjourned until next Saturday evening for the opening of Anders for the cleaning of the Paeron School. Mr W. Sullivan, headtoaelicr of the Paeroa School, is busy organising a concert and entertainment in aid of the School Library. Mr R. P. Gibbons sent another shipment of 25 tons of flax to England this week by the O.omaru. Work in the flax mill is now almost entirelysuspended owing to the wet.