AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 273, 16 June 1888, Page 2

AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' Tlih above nil —to thin" own «elf bo truo, And if must follow na the iuyiit the day 'J'hou c:\iut not then bo fnlso to uny man. — SHAKIJSrKVUK.

SATURDAY, JL-XK 16. 1888

Outwnnl 'Frisco nni'l closes at Post Office. Te Arolm .it 12 o'clock to-day. Mr W. Iletlwington supplies really firstola^ coal at a very low piieo. A foothrtf, 1 match at To Arnfm in spoken of a* likely to take place at tin early date. Mr John flirt cxpoi ts to he able to «tart his bakery by tho beaming of next month. There will be a sitting of the U.M- and Wai den's Court at Te Aroha on Tneaduy next. Attention is directed to Mi ,T. S. Ruoklands' announcement of fotthamiing -saleK by auction. Thames Snow flake Minstrels at Waioromromai to-night. This Company had a good house at Te. Aioha last evening, and weic frequently applauded. Anangomonts aie in progress for holding an enteitninment in aid of the organ fund in connection with St M.irk^ Church, To The To Aroha Skating Rink (Public Hall) was largely atteuded on Wednesday last and an enjoy, iblo evening was spent in tho fascinating pastime. Mr John Mace, is about to open the building at Waiorongomni, formerly known as tho Commercial Hotel, us a tompeianco boaiding house Notice of application for a license ho] ling of thirty acres fit Kaiangahakf, to he called the Silver King, is advertised t>y Mi J. B. Smith in our columns today. At a public meeting h^'d at Pneroa h'Bt night it was unanimously resolved to send a letter of thanks to Mr A. J. Cadman, M.U.R., for his action ro the Thames Iluibor Boaul and the up country distiiets. The contractors for tho erection of a store for Mr Harris, fit Te Atoh.i (<-ti the site of the one burnt down a f( w months kie.lo, will soon have completed tho work in hand. The contraetoi for formation of a footpath on east side of Whitiker Ptioet, Te Aroha, from tho Domain gate towards Waioiongomai, is making rapid progro^s with tho work in Imml. Tho Skating Rink at Waiorongomai '-till continues to attiact hirere crowds, and altogether the senson promises to be f\ most successful one.fi om the skater's point of \icw. Mr 0. Gnllnghcr is Greatly improving tli" house and ground recently pin ehasni by him, formcily owned and occupied by tho late Mi DArcy McPongnd, and moie iccently by Mr A. F. James. Attention is directed to Mr A. W. rdwaidi' new adveiti-rni"i:t, announcing the auival of a \ery 1-irgo stock of new winter goods for all depii tments ; the whole of which has now been opened up, and will be sold at remaikably low prices. Tho Kew Zealand fl»x industry in causing quite a levival in Foxton, where five mills are said to bo tunning. A Foxton settler proposes to giow tho flax as a regular crcp. The Chi istchurch sjndicnte, who some time ago purchased several mining propeities at Karangahako, aro expending a ! corißidciable sum in developing thep" piopeities. Wo nnder'-t'tnd over £1(V) a month is being expended upon the fv.mhoe and Scott mines alone, under the enp c.rintendanco of Mr J. McCombic. The Illustrated Australian News is a journal worthy of a place in every home The last number to hand is a most interefiting one, and tho illustrations excellent. It contains a fipeci'il illustrated supplement entitled " In ami around Sandhurst," which contains much interesting information relative to mining matters in Sandhurst etc. A warning : — Tho Lancet urges that Grout caution should be \\x?<\ in introducing M. PPra r tours scheme for the oxtenninatinn of labbit-i, alleging that the soil and water wou'il teem w i ill microbes to pnch an extent th.it a pbigu<\ involving tho destiuction of human life, might poßHibly result. Mr Hrodio, Mayor of Th.nmcfl nrul Chairman of tho Thames County Council, lms received tho following telegram fiom Mr Lfiinnch :—": — " Am leaving New Zealand foi go^d in the beginning of August for Melbourne. Kindly nay K'>od bye to my mining fiieri'ltf uad best wishoa to them nil." A dance (the promoter of which wore Mch<tb W. Bci e^foid and A. ICveritt) w;u, held in Te Aroha Public Hull on Thursday evening last, and was fidily well attended, thoio being about 'J5 couples present Dancir.g was kept ii[> till about eleven o'clock to tho excellent music Mipplied by ilesM-R W. Beresfnid, ami A. iOvoiilt en the comet accompinied by Mr C- ftvoritt on the piano. During tho week tho contractor f<or th c le\ oiling of Whit.iker street has boon busily engaged on t! c work, which i.s now ;ilmost co)i);>l(. led. 'J'be I. irgo stones will now boiemovecl from the p;itbs and gra\ol laid down. When the, tonliai t is completed a vervv.rei:! ininiovi m«'i'l will have iiecii eirocteil by tho cubing out of this woik.

Mr F>. Mol,. AY.dl i^e ndvorlis^s ,i !i'ii.,i' paw ci Mini eh i IV- fill I>r f'oi silo \f i ivc'i 'ii, o\\ ii-t basing no fin Mn 1!'1 !' siso for them. Motul.t> '•< liav of Plenty Tim^s fcbifp«: thnt Mr ami Mia Bonnet, wlion on their wav to To Ai'olui to«-|>ot)d iht'ii h'>nevm<HKi, weie on the Ivutikiti mil To Aroha tiack by a largo slip. They Invl to entup out n!I m> r bt, a 4 * fi^pas^a.* 1 w«u eomplettdy olmtrnrted, and they thus had n'mther unpleasant begirning of wedded life. Owinir to tho fitraightonnd finnneial j position of tho colony nnd tho absolute no^sfity for further retrenchment it in stated thnt the railway *ervicos throughout the colony will be no decreased n« to con- ; «*idernblv mluee the cost of working the linf«. Wnikato it i« jumourod will only linve one* train daily, coming br far an Hamilton. Instead of a daily tinin botvrt'on Hamilton and Te Awnmtitu nnd I Cambridge, it in stated there- will only by ft tri-weekly service. With lespeet to tho recent robbery of money at Wniornn<;omni, partieulurrf of which appeared in our Inet i^Bno. thero in not much to ,idd ; but little further b^in^ 1 known with renpect to the matter. Tt i'r Kftid h eorlniji party who wan seen nt the door of Hikey 1 H shanty on the evening in (juction, beinc? met nlinont directly nfterwumlm by two Wiiioronpomai icpidontH p'isrinjr thf\t wny, unk(Ml each of them if the)' had seen Rickey, nnd was informed he w«h thlkinp nt the door of ti storekeeper a f*hort disttince furtho on ; hut the orujuirer it appears aftc receiving this information went off in quite fin oppo*ito direction instead of going t ) «^eo Ilicko)-. A coi respondent of the Sydney TelepTiph, wiitinfif on wlmt ho calls "The Broken Ililln Marofoto Compiiny's Fiasco," blnmes tli^ diioctors and .idds • — Mr Precious, in his" graphic "report, refers to a Mr Xorthcroft, tho Thninoq i^old-mininp Wnnli n, whom he (h^ignntes an a " moHt CTi'ntleni.'inly fellow." 1 ba"o it on the mo'-t undoubted authority that we nrc indebtod to this e^ntlemiui for his plucky denouncement of tho uholo afTuir, for in open Court on Mny 10th (iivo days after Mr Prod us ''sent his encouraging cablegram ") he ftho Wnrden) fully expressed iiis opinion upon this moHt unsavoury pubject. Had it not been for tho invpntigfttion \\h''ch he hold, it is more than likely that "Piioiiß ro=ulfH would havn occurred. Without doubt thin o^teompd gentleman is do-terving of tho hi^lie^t commendation from this community for tho position ho , took up TwhaM now come to what may he considered tho most serious parts of tho j programme of tho Broken Hills Marototo ' Company, Limited, and demand of the directors to know whether Mr J. A. Pond's assay report of March 27 w. is published by them in full in their company's prospectus, oi whether tho same wmr published after having been materially altered ? In conHnpion, I might add this so called Broken Hills claim is situated about one. nnd a-half to two mi!e« from the celebrated Maiototo Company's property. Tho latter is considered one of the best mines in New Zealand. Tt Rooms a pity thnt many persons in Sydney should oonnf.Hu the ono with the other, but I need hnnlly say thin is done to " bear " tho inorkot. At the meeting of Tauranira County Council held on sth inst , when tenders were opened for tli' 1 construction of a hor^f ro.ul to Tn Aroha vii Thomson's Truk, (a li^t of temWs roeeived wns pui - li^'ned in the X r:\vs of 9th i'i«t ) during the di'-'cus'-ion which took place relating to the proposeil woik, Cr. (till said ho thought thnt it wns of gieat impoitanco to tho CVunty that Uiis track should be made. If there was a good road to To Aroha the people in the W;iik ito District would como to Tauransra for a sunnner resort, and tho Miketn Ri(linj< wotild be grpatly benefited by Inving a safo and short road to diivo cattle for market on. He seconded tho motion, Cr Macmillan Buggpstetl that Cr Gill "hould I)C the one to communicate*'ith Government About the additional mono)' irqnired. Cr (rill conß^nted nnd said h° would do bin be^t. ]t was decided to retain and forward the two lowest tendeis (I) Kennedy, £1173, unil W. G. Oiev, i!llBfi\ and that Government bo j asked to contribute the additional «uni over the amount of the grant, lequired to enable one of these tenders to be accepted. Cr Gill asked which of the two tendon* retained would bo taken to calculate tho amount required from Government for tho formation of Thompson's Tiack. It w.is ropolved thnt the larger amount bo taken ; and fuither that Mr Kelly, M. 11. 11., bo written to by the Chairman on the subject.