The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 282, 18 July 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' ThU above all —to thme own pelf be true, Ami it must follow as the night, ihe clay Thou canst not then be false to any vcan. SIIATvUSPEA-KE.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, TSBB.

We'witc iii hope? that we should have received all the official returns and other information we have applied for, so as to liavo placed them before our readers today, with respect to the very important question of 1 lie advisability of Te Aroha and Y\ r nioron<?omai uniting in the formation of a Boiongh at this time. Yesterday, however, we received a telegram with respect to some of the particulars, staling they would not reach us before Thursday. We tlieiefore ask the indulgence of our readers for a day or two longc-r. In o:«r issue of Saturday next, we hope to go fully into the question ; and hope all who have not. vet signed the Borough petition will see the wisdom of at least waiting a, clay or two longer can assure them of the official figures we shall Iny before them will show befoic deciding whether they will do so or not. The liability that will attach to a Borough will be very great, and should not he entered into until it can be clearly shown how it is to be met. We again say to local residents, wait nnd see what has to be said on both sides of the question before committing yourselves.

The first portion of an aiticle on the ! Thames Gold field; "A Retrospect ire ' Glance" ; specially written for the Akoiia and Ohinrmuri News, will be found in our columns to-day. Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather the Wesleyan Sunday Schoo Anniversary Services on Sunday last were well attended. Three services were held, and at each the singing was excellent, whilst the Rev. S. La wry delivered addresses appropriate to the occasion. The display of confectionery in Mr J Hart's window on Saturday last was the finest that has been seen in tho district for srnie time and was subject to general comment. We understand Mi Hart intends to keep i.p the supply, and no doubt he will receive liberal patronage from his customeis. We understand that a change will ehoitly be marie in the management of the local post office, Mr J. P. Vauee having been advised from head quaiters that ho is to be transferred to another station. By advertisement it will be seen that Messrs Cornesand Murphy have dissolved partnership, and that Mr Alf. Comes will in futiuc carry on the butchery business liithcito owned by the late firm, 'etc. The prospectus of The Kami Timber Company, Limited, capital £1,200.000 will be found advertised on our fifth page to-day. It will be observed one lumdml thousand shares are specially reserved for New Zealand. A concert and dance in connection with St, Joseph's Catholic Church will be held about the end of next month. Tho length of the proposed new road to the mines nt Tui, as lately nirveyed by Mr Tetley. Engineer for Ohinemuri County Council, is about a mile and nine chains. At an elevation of 4GB feet, and at a distance from the starting point of about seventy chains, the creek is crossed for the second time. From this last point to where the old track was intersected is a distance of about fifteen chains above Camerons whare. Some four or five chains of the formation before reaching the creek the first time would be through hard blue rock, lout after the creek has been crossed the country is much easier to work and consists much of sandstone and oosc boulders. Most untruthful statements having been recently circulated re the enquiry held bofore Mr Northcroft, R M., respecting the petition to havo Te Aroha constituted a Town District, for the infoi mation of *he vrnny new arrivals in the district, we re-pul>li\h in another column to-day the report of the enquiry referred to. We may further state for the information of new comers, that whilst the original Borough petition had 11G signatures attached, including those obtained at Waiorongomai, etc., the Town District petition was signed by 109 Te Aroha residents : Further, many who signed the original petition, regretting they had done so, believing it was pei mature, and the responsibility and liability too great, signed a letter addressed to the Improvement Committee (who had charge of the Borough petition), requesting that their names be erased from that petition, but Mr Mills, before the letter could be presented popped thepotition into the post office, so that this request could not be given effect to. The letter, largely signed, was however, forwarded on to Wellington. The following tenders were received by Mr Pavitt (Piako County Engineer), for making 50 chains of drains in Grahams street, Waiorongomai township : — John McLeod, £9 18s 6d ; Basket t, £16 ; Dillon, £15 T9s ; Ritchie, £17 10s ; J. Orr, £18 15s ; M. Geiney, £1G 5s ; J. Shine. £10 17s 6d ; P. Rico, £14; McDovitfc, £17 10s; J. King, £14 ; \V. Bromby, £19 10s ; J. McSwiney, £17 ; K. Gleanger, £18 10s ; R. Michael, £13 10s; Missan and Shapland, £IG 3s 4d ; M. Phelan, £19 7s Gd ; J. Jackson, £21 10s; J. Reid, £19 10s. Mr R. Michael's tender. £13 10s, was accepted, as Mr McLeod, the lowest, declined to take up the work. Mr Bradley, oE tho firm of Bradley and Co., is at present in the Waikato purchasing horses for the livery stables. At the present time good prices are ruling for horses, the supply having diminished owing to tho large n urn - bfrs which have boon bought up for tho fn'lnn mvk','l, This should provs a 'tiniuiii'- I) I'Kcdn «, fovwiin tho pioscnt i'-m-H'T-'] tlic; v> i : i fni-1 a go^il m.ukc'f. - - '„,,-,.■ " <

Afiu ill br> soon by a -1 vert Homenttho WelevanSr.ndayS hool A nni versa ry soiree will lake place to-morrow evening. Tea will commence nt O'clock, ilie after myelitis; at half past seven, Addresses, recitations, etc., will be given, intcisporrd by both so'os md pieces "in which the children will taken prominent part. The proceeds nro to lio devoted to the Sunday School funds, for the purpose of providing the necessary book^, periodical^, etc, etc., and we hope the attendance will be lan?o on the occasion, and the financial results good, for so worthy an object. The W.u'toa Ron 1 Board £>ivc notice "by advertisement of thoir intention to levy a general rate of one fai thing" in the pound, A* will bo seen by advertisement, Mrs Garriock and Miss Robertson, of Auckland, will visit Te A roll a about the 20th inst. with n large selection of costumes, jackets, millineiy, etc., etc.