The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 274, 20 June 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

• Tliis above all —to thine own Bplf bo trup, And ih must follow as the nighf the rlav Thou cuiHt not then be f.ilso t » any man. — SIIA-KISSFKUtE.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1888.

The police are in pnq^es^ion of n \V it -rbury watch foimd on th" ro id hot wen Te Arohu and Waiiiou.

(ieneral L nnox, \\\\n is on a visit to the colonies, is fit piesonl making u tour in the 'I'lianie^ distiii t. The permanent grade of Whitaker-streot is- now completed. The contractor has commenced laving down trrnvol, and expects to complete his contract at tlie cm! tho week. The advent of a minstrel tronpo nt Waiorongomai last Saturday was hailed with much pleasure by the miners and others residing in the district, and the visitors h.ul a hump- r house. The New Zealand Customs revenue for li^t month wii^ £143,880, as against £103 .'MM for May, 1887. The beer duty was i!39'24, as against £3800. We learn bv "'ire tint Mr R. (1. Mackay, of the Auckland stock exchange, has iccovi'ved from the severe attack of typhoid feve«-, which Ind prostiatod him so long and fioin which he w.is for weeks not expected to recover. A traveller complained to the police on Won lay that he had eased of £0 at \V n'oiongomai on Saturday. Tho matter, howevet, is wholly discredited in the district, and the investigations of. tho police £0 fir to prove that the alleged robbery was imaginaiy. Several of our local bodies have lately received petitions for signalme, praying' the abolition of the totalisator These have been forwaided by the Town Clerk of Chi istchurcli. It is desired to place them before pailiamcnt. Nothing fnither hns transpired with lefeience to the r>bbciy of Ilickev's money at Waioiongomai, although the police h.ixe been diligently seateliing for the nflVndeis. On Monday niuht I lie-key pi, iced the police on a new scent, but it is h.mllv hk.'ly now llii.t tin.- money will e\ ci be uco\ cred* The W.iikato Xcus has the following ; — " Mi .1. S Auckland b.is resumed sole .md undivided contiol of the W.iik.ito business, yml Mi 0 Sbiiley will almost immediately jcmove to Antkbin 1. Dining his stay in C.nnhiidge lit. h.is undo himself vcrv popul.ir. and his depaiture will be much ic^retted." At niesent Wellington is lit bv g->S -md h.is '221) I. imps, lit from i\\\-k till midnight, at a cost of l*y per ye<u pel l.unp oi a total oi L"2,;JIU pci annum. The Corporation have accepte<l a tender to electrically liyht the streets \sitb 480 lamps kept alight fioin dusk til. d.iylmht next morn ing, at a cost of £3 lHs pel Lnnppei yeni, oi a total of £1,752 yvr annum. A sudden death occurred ut Te Aroh.i on Sunday morning hist, Mrs Wliitehoiiso, wife of Mr A. 11. Whitehmise, shoemaker, expiiing after an illnem of twentyfour bouts, dining which time she was mostly unconscious. When the sad news been me known general i egret was ex-piess-ed on all sides, as Mrs Whitehouse, bv lit kindly nature, had made many friends. Much sympathy is felt and expressed on every band for Mr Whitehonso in bis great tii d, and for the five little ones who have thus suddenly been deprived of a mother's watchful caie. Mis Wbitebouse was daughter of the late Key Mr Davis foimerlv Baptist minister, Thames, and uas biuhlv respected. The funerd took place yesterday afternoon at the Te Aroha Cenv'terv and was w< 11 attended. At the gnv<>side the mourners weie ioined bv the M-^ter '.t th'> deceased who e;\me up fiom (lambiidge by the i train. The bnri'il service was conducted bp the Rev Mi Li wry, \Vc-le\an minister, in a most impressive inaimei. The p,uticul.irs of the inquest held on the body Vpct'M'dav morning 'it tlie Palace Hotel, will be found in another column | The P.roken Hill Viopii-'tary have jn.ide airangemetits with the Australian Smelt- | ing Company f«»r treatment at the Diy ' Cieek Smelting Woiks. for twelve months, of 250 tons of siheious iron ore pei w^ck. There is a preponderance, of this class of ore at the mine, and it can be treated cheaply at Dry Creek. Tt is expected that the arrangement will add about 10,000ozs per week to the output of the I3ioken Hill mine. Cotnment'ng on the success of the New Zealand Loan, the Sydney Morning Herald Siivs _• — << 'New Zealand has never yet bc^n unable to meet her engagements, Sho has entered on an era of retrenchment. She hrvs promised not to go on the money market again for tho next throe ypais Undei such a policy a". tb ; s, with .i territory so fertile, and possessing climatic condition" favomahlo to a measure of production perhaps larger than any other eolonv, we shall be greatly surprised if New Zealand i^ not soon in a much more prosperous condition than she has occupied for years past." We make the following extract from a home paper :—": — " Mr F. J. Clarke, J.P., of Lincoln, died at Bournemouth the other day, after a long illness affecting the heart and lungs, at the age of forty-six. Mr Clarke commenced business as a chemist when only nineteen, and after he had saved a moderate foituue risked it all in advertising his ' Blood Mixtme.' Tn one yei>r be spent £15,000, but in another twelve months he had about made his accounts stiaight. From that time success w.'ts .•l'-'sured, though lie confirmed fo spend £20,000 a year in ad vei Using. Mr Claikc bought Bracebridgf Hall, near Lincoln, and was four times Mayor of the city." Says a recent hsuc of the Wellington Post;— The Cable message published by us yesterday announcing that in opening Parliament the Governor of South Australia wa«? able to announce a most satis-fju-tovv improvement in the condition of nffiirs in that colony, should give New Z-aliind heart of grace. A year or two ago the condition of South Australia was as \,u\ or worse than ours now is, and theie was far less reason to entertain faith in the future. The depression was intense, and almost all recuperative power appeared lost. A drastic svstcin of retrenchment was, however, instituted and carried into effect, with the result that, aidcd_ by a good harvest, the increased value of wool, and thedcvelopeincnf of mineral resources, the eolonv is now able to live within its menus, to avoid the necessity for increased taxation, and to undcitake a scheme of railway extension. So f.ir as grain and wool go, Now Zealand is likely always to ' be in abelter position than South Australia, while there is ever}' reason to believe our mineral resources to be even

The Tlmtnos Star has tlic following : — Tho tiuth of. the well-known adago that '. «r oIV fields foimii greenest is receiving exemplification in the repoitsthat come to ha'id from those who recently taft here for ll.c mining distrets in Australia. A piivnto letter has boon received from Mr Charles Hill, formerly manager for Messrs Morrin and Co., which has been kindly placed at our disposal, and from which we make a few extracts. The letter is dated May 7th, and is from Wakaroo, near Albiontown, near New South Wales, and after realms with some matters of a purely private nature Mr Hill proceeds • 11 I take this opportunity of writing to you this evening as the storomnn is coming out to-morrow, so that I will have a chance to send this by him. This is a most dreadful hole for a man io come to. We are 3C>{) miles from Adelaide, and 800 miles from S\dney, and 25 miles from Broken Hills, the nearest town, so that 33 f ou will see we are in a nice place — a perfect wilderness. We have to go 7 miles for the water we drink, and it is very brackish. It is nine d.iys since any of us took off our clothes, as we have to sleep in them eveiy night, and shall have to do so for ;i few more nights yet. We arc putting up our tents to-day. We have to sleep on the giound evciy night. If you know any persons coming licio, yon can tell them to stop wheie they aie if they are wise. There aie scores of men at the Broken Hills who lnve to sleep out in the (•pen air, while there are also scores of them who cannot get woik, and what the poor fellows will do I really do not know. Of course we have a job, so that we are not so b-idly off, but I would rather live at the Thames and work for iI2 per week than stop heie. i believe, however, that this will become agre.it mining place some day, but it will not be in my time. There is neither witcr or timber here, simply small snub. The) cis no grass. Kangaroo and wallaby die plentiful, while theie aie a few 'Minis, and this h the meat wo h.ive had for the last two or tin ee da} flavoured with a bit of baton, l'iease show this to ; ;in( | t.i'll tliL-m to jteisnjide all to stop where they aie. Mind, I am not biassed in advising them to do so, but I am going by what [ see and hear. I do not think ( will stop here long. 1 would not st.iy at .my price, but necessity compels me at present.