From another source we learn that the offer cabled from home re the floating1 of the Champion Lode G. and S. M. Co's valuable property at Tui Creek, Te Aroha, (asreferred to in our last night's telegrams) is such as it is likely will be accepted by the shareholders. Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is to be opened to-day. The opening- festivities aie to extend; over a period of ten days. The Exhibition will be opened today by his Excellency the Governor, who will also give a dinner at Government House It is estimated that altogether about twenty thousand persons will be able to find sitting room on the occasion of the opening. The orchestra numbers sixtysix performets, and the choir will number eight hundred voices. Altogether the opening ceremony promises to be of a most imposing character. Operations at Mr Coulthard's flax mill are making good progress. The work of scutching the flax has been commenced, and a shipment of about three tons of the material to Auckland will shortly be made. Sinre the commencement of the year 'there has been an increase in the attendance' of the Wniorongomai school by 19 children, the total number on the roll now being 91. The average attendance at the present time is rather low owing to the prevalence of colds among the children Mr Gum, briokmaker, of the Thames, who erected the smelting furnace for the S. and G. <M. -Co., Waiorongomai, is at present making arrangements for the building of another furnace. With reference to the formation of a band at Waiorongomai, \\ o hear that negotiations aie being .made for the instruments, music, stands, etc., belonging to the Thames Rifle- Bangers, that corps being about to disband. The matter will be decided at a meeting to be "held about a fortnight hence. The "band if formed will be a strong one, consisting of about twenty performers. The ordinary monthly meeting of tbe Ohinemuri County Council will .be held at Paeroa on Saturday next, August 4th, commencing at 3 p.m. A meeting of the Ohinemuii River Board will be held on same day at the Council chambers, commencing at 2 p.m. Mr Goo. Graves (of Graves and Baskiville, storekeeper, Waiorongomai), was i married to Miss Grace Dawson, youngest! ('laughter of Mr Dawson, Whatawhata, on Tuesday 24th July. The happy couple left for Auckland the same day on their honeymoon. The conti actors for the clearing of 400 acres of scrub at the Larkworthy estate, Mr McGoe and party, finished their work last week, and the field has since been ploughed, ibis being done by Messis Hanks and Garlick. Mr Tlowell, mining expert from America, is still at Karangabake with Mr Parke*.. Mr 11. H. Adams also proceeded to Karangahalce on Monday morning last, returning to Waiorongomai last evening. A map of the Te Aroha Goldmining district, showing all the licensed holdings and special claims granted up to July 25th, has been forwarded from the Auckland Survey Office to the Wai den atTe Aroha for the purposes of reference. The map is very neatly executed, is some sft in length by 3ft, and will be found most valuable ; in fact the want of some map of refeiencc respecting the position of ground already taken up, has been much fell for some time past. A very painful accident occurred to Mrs Collins, wife of Mr Chan. Collins, residing at Waihoii, on Saturday evening, July 21. It seems Mrs Collins is subject to fits, and on the day in question whilst preparing some food for her baby, about eighteen months old, she was seized with a parozyism, and in falling capsized a kettle of boiling water, the contents of which fell over her, severely burning the left side of her face, throat, and arm. She was discoveicd in a helpless state by her husband, who immediately applied restoratives and endeavoured to the suffering, which was intense. All through the week Mrs Collins has been very Jow and as the case requires medical attention, it was yesterday decided to remote her to the Hamilton liorpitnl, to which institution bhe was taken to-day. Miners indulging in step-dancing to the strains of a fiddle is not a thing of the pa«t, although the miner of today is a more nmttor-of-iact individual than of yore. On Monday afternoon last about a dozen men met at Mr Greenwood's, the Waiorongomai tobacconist, where dancing was ineirily indulged in ior some time, the music'being supplied by the " boss" ot the establishment, on a new and excellent violin just airived from Auckland. Work in the mines at Waiorongonjai for j some months to come, (i.e. until the new additions and appliances to the present plant have been made) will principally be confined to continuing1 the low levels now being put in, and generally opening up the giound. It is well, therefore, that it should be known that there are quite sufficient men already in the district to supply the demand for labour for some time to come, as numbers of men are continually arriving from vaiious parts of tho country in the expectation of finding- immediate employment, only to be disappointed. When the company's new appliances have been erected thore will no doubt be employment for new-comers, but at present the work is only sufficient for the local men. As the company's extended plant will not bo in working- order for several months yet, it is absolutely useless for men to seek employment in the township at present, spending the little money they have in coming to the district only to find they have to leave again. Dm ing the. past week many instances of this kind have occurred. AYe hope our contemporaries in surrounding districts will assist in making the ical facts of the case, as stated above, known. We acknowledge receipt from Messrs Gordon and Gotch, Melbourne, of a copy of a mopt useful little work, entitled, " Everybody's Pocket Cyclopaedia," of things worth knowing, things difficult to remember, and tables of reference; published by Messrs Saxon and Co., of London and New York, at the small price of sixpence. We can strongly recommend the work as being a most useful one for reference on a very great variety of subjects, and that it will be found a valuable little addition in an office ; or for tho pocket. As will be seen by advertisement, an entertainment will t-ike place in the Te Aioha Public Hall, in aid of the funds of tho Te Aroha Public Library. The programme will consist of first, a Drawing Room Entertainment, by the Mount Aroha Troubadours ; secondly, Vocal and Instrumental Selections, in which the leading local talent will take part, the whole to conclude with a dance. The libiarj'funds aie at present at a very low ebb, and we hope there will be a full house on Friday night. Auckland produce market report?, and news from the Marototo-Coromandel mining districts, will be found on our fifth column. Mr 11. L. Harston, piano tuner, airived at Te Aroha yesterday, on his periodical visit. Orders for Mr tlarston may be loft at the office of this paper. The Timeß, Wellington, in an article on the Knuii Timber Company, refers to the fact that it will shortly deal with " nearly all the present kauri forests alienated from the Crown," and says :—-" What we are inclined to dread in the contemplated operations of this large company is the extensive disforesting of the country, which must be one of the results. Whatevermay be the financial outcome of the company's operations, there can be no doubt as to the practical and physical consequences." The article goes on to say •--'•Every inducement should be offeied to farmers and land purchasers to plant trees on portions of their holdings. This should be mode a condition of every perpetual lease and deferredpayment sale ; and special terms might be made to cash purchasers in consideration of their contracting to plant efficiently a due propoition of their land with trees." A new railway timetable comes into force on Monday next, paiticuhus of which will be found in another column, and by which it will be seen no alteration has been made/as regards the days on which trains 'will arrive fr®m and leave Te Aroha for Auckland. The hour of departure from Te Aroha has, however, been altered to 8.30 a.m. We believe this change will be found to meet general approval, as many complaint* were made by those travelling- to the Cit}', at being landed in Auckland at half-past nine at night, as is the case under the existing time table. In the case of invalids this wa.s specially objectionable. Cambridge will now be placed on a par with Te Aioha as regards train service, and have a triweekly service each way, the department, however, undertaking to convey the mails on the alternate days. Mr Montgomery, of the Thames School of Mines, is about to utilise the new experimental plant in testing throe different parcels of ore from Karangahake, Each parcel consists of lewt., and the course of treatment will be as follows :—Dry crushing, sampling, and assaying ; roasting, and assaying again to see what loss (if any) is caused by roasting ; and, finally, amalgamating. A correspondent to the Herald writes : —" Conflicting opinions have been given at various times on the relative advantages of growing winter or spring wheat, and various reasons have been given for the excessively low prices which have ruled during the present season. Some farmers have found it advantageous to grow only spring wheat, but when offering it for s.ife have been told1 that millers require a large quantity of winter wheat to mix with that sown in the spring for making good flour, so that those who grow only spring wheat must content themselves with low prices. One case brought (under my notice is that of a farmer who grew 30 acres of winter wheat last season, and in the adjoiningfield on somewhat inferior soil, a crop of spring wheat was grown, the yield in the latter being nearly double that of the foimer, and although the winter wheat was acknowledged by the milleis to be a good sample, the highest price offered was that obtained for spring wheat, 3s Id per bushel, in Auckland. One of the best rotations practised in Waikalo is that of growing turnips, which are fed off during-the winter months with cattle or sheep, after which the land is prepared and sown with wheat yielding fairly good crops. The miller there, who has a first-class roller mill, states that ho can produce a first-class flour from spring-sown wheat, and consequently does not offer any inducement to the farmers to grow winter wheat, because on sound commercial principles tho farmer who sows that wheat, and in pome districts loses his winter crop of turnips, has his crop some months longer in the ground, and should there Core look forward to a higher price fur his grain. On comparatively heavy land in the neighbourhood of Auckland, where turnips cannot be advantageously grown and fed off in the winter months, it may be advisable to sow the wheat early ; but in Waikato, for the reasons already given, it will be more profitable to grow spring wheat." Tenders are invited for work in connection wsth the Te Arolia Hot Springs Domain. Mr W. Y. Gage Brown', Shaftesbirry, invites tenders for the erection of fencing. See adyt. v Mr F. Strange, of Waitoa, advertises home cured, dairy fed, bacon, hams, etc, at most moderate prices. By advertisement it will be seen tenders are invited by the Manager of the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co., for carting about two hundred tons of machinery ; also for the construction of two more scetions of the water race extension. " What a strain that is," said Mrs Palrington as she heard an air from Lucia sung in the highest style by a young lady where she was visiting. " Yes," was the response, "it is operatic." "Upper attic, is it ?" questioned she, %I should think it was high enough to be on top of the house-" " When a young lady trips daintily into the parlour, aud explains her deranged appearance by remarkiug that she had been " helping mamma to wipe the dishes," it is pretty hard to refrain from proposing on thespct;but go 3low, my boy, go slow. She may|be fooling thee. An "Englishman and a Scotchman had a dispute as to which of their respective coifntries had produced the most eminent men. Every man of noto was claimed by the Scotchman as that of a man born north of the Tweeds till finally the Englishman said • " Surely you won't claim Shakspore as a Scotchman?" "No," replied the canny Scotchman, " but yo'll maybe admit that he was maist clever eneuch to be ane ?" The company promoter'is still in quite a whirl o± business in London, piling Tip capital by millions—on paper. During the first seventeen days of April (says the Pall Mall Gazette) the capital of the companies registered at Somerset House has exceeded £ 52,000 000, or one-third of the aggregate capital of the whole of the companies registered during 1887. Since the beginning of the year the companies registered have a nominal capital just under £100,000,000. It would be inteiesting to learn what percentage of these vast amounts represents genuine concerns. At Mr D. G. MacDonnell's office, on Wednesday laßt, 25th July, the first general meeting was held of the shareholders of the Askham-Molloy Gold Extraction Company. Thore was a quorum present, and Mr J. L. Wilson occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed, and the announcement convening the meeting was read The first business was the election of directors to replace three who had resigned, and Messrs J. H. Keep, James Macky, and Ralph, were chosen to fill the vacancies. Mr J M. Chambers stated that all the necessary apparatus was in first-class order, and that he was willing to conduct the operations with the full force of the plant for a week, and then furnish a report to the directors giving details of the lesults. Mr Hales spoke in high terms of the efficiency of the plant, and expressed a conviction that the company's operations would be an unqualified success. It was decided that work should be starte-i at the Thames on Monday, with the full power of the plant. A very aitistic and beautifully illuminated address has been prepared for presentation by the citizens of the Thames to the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, late Minister of Mines, on the occasion of his leaving the colony. The manner in which it has has been got up reflects great credit on Mr Patterson, of Owen street, Thames, who was entrusted with the work. The following is a copy of the address :—:— "TTon. W J. M.Lnrnach,C.M.G., M.H.K., —Sir,—We, the undersigned, in the name and on behalf of the people of the Thames, deshe to express our deep feeling of regret at the announced departure from this colony of so true a friend and earnest an advocate of the mining industry as yourself. No member of any New Zealand Ministry has so persistently endeavoured to advance the prosperity of the colony by bringing to the assistance of the miner a practical knowledge of#the composition of ores ; the most modem appliances for the extraction of metals therefrom ; the establishment of Schools of Mines ; and the publication of mining literature. In bidding you good-bye, we most sincerely trust that the good wishes of those whose aid you have so earnestly striven for here, may be permitted effectively to follow you to your new home, wherever that ma)' be. With every feeling of personal respect, permit us to subscribe ourselves, youis most faithfully—(signed by His Worship the Mayoi,and all the Borough and County Councillors)." ' This above nil —to thine own self be true, Ami it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not'then be false to'any man. —Shakespeare. lie Jtwli AMO ©Itacttfttii §fes AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 2

From another source we learn that the offer cabled from home re the floating 1 of the Champion Lode G. and S. M. Co's valuable property at Tui Creek, Te Aroha, (asref erred to in our last night's telegrams) is such as it is likely will be accepted by the shareholders. Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is to be opened to-day. The opening- festivities aie to extend; over a period of ten days. The Exhibition will be opened today by his Excellency the Governor, who will also give a dinner at Government House It is estimated that altogether about twenty thousand persons will be able to find sitting room on the occasion of the opening. The orchestra numbers sixtysix performets, and the choir will number eight hundred voices. Altogether the opening ceremony promises to be of a most imposing character. Operations at Mr Coulthard's flax mill are making good progress. The work of scutching the flax has been commenced, and a shipment of about three tons of the material to Auckland will shortly be made. Sinre the commencement of the year 'there has been an increase in the attendance' of the Wniorongomai school by 19 children, the total number on the roll now being 91. The average attendance at the present time is rather low owing to the prevalence of colds among the children Mr Gum, briokmaker, of the Thames, who erected the smelting furnace for the S. and G. <M. -Co., Waiorongomai, is at present making arrangements for the building of another furnace. With reference to the formation of a band at Waiorongomai, \\ o hear that negotiations aie being .made for the instruments, music, stands, etc., belonging to the Thames Rifle- Bangers, that corps being about to disband. The matter will be decided at a meeting to be "held about a fortnight hence. The "band if formed will be a strong one, consisting of about twenty performers. The ordinary monthly meeting of tbe Ohinemuri County Council will .be held at Paeroa on Saturday next, August 4th, commencing at 3 p.m. A meeting of the Ohinemuii River Board will be held on same day at the Council chambers, commencing at 2 p.m. Mr Goo. Graves (of Graves and Baskiville, storekeeper, Waiorongomai), was i married to Miss Grace Dawson, youngest! ('laughter of Mr Dawson, Whatawhata, on Tuesday 24th July. The happy couple left for Auckland the same day on their honeymoon. The conti actors for the clearing of 400 acres of scrub at the Larkworthy estate, Mr McGoe and party, finished their work last week, and the field has since been ploughed, ibis being done by Messis Hanks and Garlick. Mr Tlowell, mining expert from America, is still at Karangabake with Mr Parke*.. Mr 11. H. Adams also proceeded to Karangahalce on Monday morning last, returning to Waiorongomai last evening. A map of the Te Aroha Goldmining district, showing all the licensed holdings and special claims granted up to July 25th, has been forwarded from the Auckland Survey Office to the Wai den atTe Aroha for the purposes of reference. The map is very neatly executed, is some sft in length by 3ft, and will be found most valuable ; in fact the want of some map of refeiencc respecting the position of ground already taken up, has been much fell for some time past. A very painful accident occurred to Mrs Collins, wife of Mr Chan. Collins, residing at Waihoii, on Saturday evening, July 21. It seems Mrs Collins is subject to fits, and on the day in question whilst preparing some food for her baby, about eighteen months old, she was seized with a parozyism, and in falling capsized a kettle of boiling water, the contents of which fell over her, severely burning the left side of her face, throat, and arm. She was discoveicd in a helpless state by her husband, who immediately applied restoratives and endeavoured to the suffering, which was intense. All through the week Mrs Collins has been very Jow and as the case requires medical attention, it was yesterday decided to remote her to the Hamilton liorpitnl, to which institution bhe was taken to-day. Miners indulging in step-dancing to the strains of a fiddle is not a thing of the pa«t, although the miner of today is a more nmttor-of-iact individual than of yore. On Monday afternoon last about a dozen men met at Mr Greenwood's, the Waiorongomai tobacconist, where dancing was ineirily indulged in ior some time, the music' being supplied by the " boss" ot the establishment, on a new and excellent violin just ai rived from Auckland. Work in the mines at Waiorongonjai for j some months to come, (i.e. until the new additions and appliances to the present plant have been made) will principally be confined to continuing 1 the low levels now being put in, and generally opening up the giound. It is well, therefore, that it should be known that there are quite sufficient men already in the district to supply the demand for labour for some time to come, as numbers of men are continually arriving from vaiious parts of tho country in the expectation of finding- immediate employment, only to be disappointed. When the company's new appliances have been erected thore will no doubt be employment for new-comers, but at present the work is only sufficient for the local men. As the company's extended plant will not bo in working- order for several months yet, it is absolutely useless for men to seek employment in the township at present, spending the little money they have in coming to the district only to find they have to leave again. Dm ing the. past week many instances of this kind have occurred. AYe hope our contemporaries in surrounding districts will assist in making the ical facts of the case, as stated above, known. We acknowledge receipt from Messrs Gordon and Gotch, Melbourne, of a copy of a mopt useful little work, entitled, " Everybody's Pocket Cyclopaedia," of things worth knowing, things difficult to remember, and tables of reference; published by Messrs Saxon and Co., of London and New York, at the small price of sixpence. We can strongly recommend the work as being a most useful one for reference on a very great variety of subjects, and that it will be found a valuable little addition in an office ; or for tho pocket. As will be seen by advertisement, an entertainment will t-ike place in the Te Aioha Public Hall, in aid of the funds of tho Te Aroha Public Library. The programme will consist of first, a Drawing Room Entertainment, by the Mount Aroha Troubadours ; secondly, Vocal and Instrumental Selections, in which the leading local talent will take part, the whole to conclude with a dance. The libiarj' funds aie at present at a very low ebb, and we hope there will be a full house on Friday night. Auckland produce market report?, and news from the Marototo-Coromandel mining districts, will be found on our fifth column. Mr 11. L. Harston, piano tuner, ai rived at Te Aroha yesterday, on his periodical visit. Orders for Mr tlarston may be loft at the office of this paper. The Timeß, Wellington, in an article on the Knuii Timber Company, refers to the fact that it will shortly deal with " nearly all the present kauri forests alienated from the Crown," and says :— -" What we are inclined to dread in the contemplated operations of this large company is the extensive disforesting of the country, which must be one of the results. Whatevermay be the financial outcome of the company's operations, there can be no doubt as to the practical and physical consequences." The article goes on to say •--'•Every inducement should be offeied to farmers and land purchasers to plant trees on portions of their holdings. This should be mode a condition of every perpetual lease and deferredpayment sale ; and special terms might be made to cash purchasers in consideration of their contracting to plant efficiently a due propoition of their land with trees." A new railway timetable comes into force on Monday next, paiticuhus of which will be found in another column, and by which it will be seen no alteration has been made /as regards the days on which trains 'will arrive fr®m and leave Te Aroha for Auckland. The hour of departure from Te Aroha has, however, been altered to 8.30 a.m. We believe this change will be found to meet general approval, as many complaint* were made by those travelling- to the Cit}', at being landed in Auckland at half-past nine at night, as is the case under the existing time table. In the case of invalids this wa.s specially objectionable. Cambridge will now be placed on a par with Te Aioha as regards train service, and have a triweekly service each way, the department, however, undertaking to convey the mails on the alternate days. Mr Montgomery, of the Thames School of Mines, is about to utilise the new experimental plant in testing throe different parcels of ore from Karangahake, Each parcel consists of lewt., and the course of treatment will be as follows : — Dry crushing, sampling, and assaying ; roasting, and assaying again to see what loss (if any) is caused by roasting ; and, finally, amalgamating. A correspondent to the Herald writes : — " Conflicting opinions have been given at various times on the relative advantages of growing winter or spring wheat, and various reasons have been given for the excessively low prices which have ruled during the present season. Some farmers have found it advantageous to grow only spring wheat, but when offering it for s.ife have been told 1 that millers require a large quantity of winter wheat to mix with that sown in the spring for making good flour, so that those who grow only spring wheat must content themselves with low prices. One case brought (under my notice is that of a farmer who grew 30 acres of winter wheat last season, and in the adjoiningfield on somewhat inferior soil, a crop of spring wheat was grown, the yield in the latter being nearly double that of the foimer, and although the winter wheat was acknowledged by the milleis to be a good sample, the highest price offered was that obtained for spring wheat, 3s Id per bushel, in Auckland. One of the best rotations practised in Waikalo is that of growing turnips, which are fed off during- the winter months with cattle or sheep, after which the land is prepared and sown with wheat yielding fairly good crops. The miller there, who has a first-class roller mill, states that ho can produce a first-class flour from spring-sown wheat, and consequently does not offer any inducement to the farmers to grow winter wheat, because on sound commercial principles tho farmer who sows that wheat, and in pome districts loses his winter crop of turnips, has his crop some months longer in the ground, and should there Core look forward to a higher price fur his grain. On comparatively heavy land in the neighbourhood of Auckland, where turnips cannot be advantageously grown and fed off in the winter months, it may be advisable to sow the wheat early ; but in Waikato, for the reasons already given, it will be more profitable to grow spring wheat." Tenders are invited for work in connection wsth the Te Arolia Hot Springs Domain. Mr W. Y. Gage Brown', Shaftesbirry, invites tenders for the erection of fencing. See adyt. v Mr F. Strange, of Waitoa, advertises home cured, dairy fed, bacon, hams, etc, at most moderate prices. By advertisement it will be seen tenders are invited by the Manager of the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co., for carting about two hundred tons of machinery ; also for the construction of two more scetions of the water race extension. " What a strain that is," said Mrs Palrington as she heard an air from Lucia sung in the highest style by a young lady where she was visiting. " Yes," was the response, "it is operatic." "Upper attic, is it ?" questioned she, % I should think it was high enough to be on top of the house-" " When a young lady trips daintily into the parlour, aud explains her deranged appearance by remarkiug that she had been " helping mamma to wipe the dishes," it is pretty hard to refrain from proposing on thespct;but go 3low, my boy, go slow. She may|be fooling thee. An "Englishman and a Scotchman had a dispute as to which of their respective coifntries had produced the most eminent men. Every man of noto was claimed by the Scotchman as that of a man born north of the Tweeds till finally the Englishman said • " Surely you won't claim Shakspore as a Scotchman?" "No," replied the canny Scotchman, " but yo'll maybe admit that he was maist clever eneuch to be ane ?" The company promoter 'is still in quite a whirl o± business in London, piling Tip capital by millions — on paper. During the first seventeen days of April (says the Pall Mall Gazette) the capital of the companies registered at Somerset House has exceeded £ 52,000 000, or one-third of the aggregate capital of the whole of the companies registered during 1887. Since the beginning of the year the companies registered have a nominal capital just under £100,000,000. It would be inteiesting to learn what percentage of these vast amounts represents genuine concerns. At Mr D. G. MacDonnell's office, on Wednesday laßt, 25th July, the first general meeting was held of the shareholders of the Askham-Molloy Gold Extraction Company. Thore was a quorum present, and Mr J. L. Wilson occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed, and the announcement convening the meeting was read The first business was the election of directors to replace three who had resigned, and Messrs J. H. Keep, James Macky, and Ralph, were chosen to fill the vacancies. Mr J M. Chambers stated that all the necessary apparatus was in first-class order, and that he was willing to conduct the operations with the full force of the plant for a week, and then furnish a report to the directors giving details of the lesults. Mr Hales spoke in high terms of the efficiency of the plant, and expressed a conviction that the company's operations would be an unqualified success. It was decided that work should be starte-i at the Thames on Monday, with the full power of the plant. A very aitistic and beautifully illuminated address has been prepared for presentation by the citizens of the Thames to the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, late Minister of Mines, on the occasion of his leaving the colony. The manner in which it has has been got up reflects great credit on Mr Patterson, of Owen street, Thames, who was entrusted with the work. The following is a copy of the address :—: — "TTon. W J. M.Lnrnach,C.M.G., M.H.K., — Sir, — We, the undersigned, in the name and on behalf of the people of the Thames, deshe to express our deep feeling of regret at the announced departure from this colony of so true a friend and earnest an advocate of the mining industry as yourself. No member of any New Zealand Ministry has so persistently endeavoured to advance the prosperity of the colony by bringing to the assistance of the miner a practical knowledge of # the composition of ores ; the most modem appliances for the extraction of metals therefrom ; the establishment of Schools of Mines ; and the publication of mining literature. In bidding you good-bye, we most sincerely trust that the good wishes of those whose aid you have so earnestly striven for here, may be permitted effectively to follow you to your new home, wherever that ma)' be. With every feeling of personal respect, permit us to subscribe ourselves, youis most faithfully — (signed by His Worship the Mayoi,and all the Borough and County Councillors)." ' This above nil —to thine own self be true, Ami it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not'then be false to' any man. — Shakespeare. lie Jtwli AMO ©Itacttfttii §fes AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888.

' This above nil —to thine own self be true, Ami it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not'then be false to' any man. — Shakespeare.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888.

From another source we learn that the offer cabled from home re the floating 1 of the Champion Lode G. and S. M. Co's valuable property at Tui Creek, Te Aroha, (asref erred to in our last night's telegrams) is such as it is likely will be accepted by the shareholders. Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is to be opened to-day. The opening- festivities aie to extend; over a period of ten days. The Exhibition will be opened today by his Excellency the Governor, who will also give a dinner at Government House It is estimated that altogether about twenty thousand persons will be able to find sitting room on the occasion of the opening. The orchestra numbers sixtysix performets, and the choir will number eight hundred voices. Altogether the opening ceremony promises to be of a most imposing character. Operations at Mr Coulthard's flax mill are making good progress. The work of scutching the flax has been commenced, and a shipment of about three tons of the material to Auckland will shortly be made. Sinre the commencement of the year 'there has been an increase in the attendance' of the Wniorongomai school by 19 children, the total number on the roll now being 91. The average attendance at the present time is rather low owing to the prevalence of colds among the children Mr Gum, briokmaker, of the Thames, who erected the smelting furnace for the S. and G. <M. -Co., Waiorongomai, is at present making arrangements for the building of another furnace. With reference to the formation of a band at Waiorongomai, \\ o hear that negotiations aie being .made for the instruments, music, stands, etc., belonging to the Thames liiflo Bangers, that corps being about to disband. The matter will be decided at a meeting to be "held about a fortnight hence. The "band if formed will be a strong one, consisting of about twenty performers. The ordinary monthly meeting of tbe Ohinemuri County Council will .be held at Paeroa on Saturday next, August 4th, commencing at 3 p.m. A meeting of the Ohinemuii River Board will be held on same day at the Council chambers, commencing at 2 p.m. Mr Goo. Graves (of Graves and Baskiville, storekeeper, Waiorongomai), was married to Miss Grace Dawson, youngest ('laughter of Mr Dawson, Whatawhata, on Tuesday 24th July. The happy couple left for Auckland the same day on their honeymoon. The conti actors for the clearing of 400 acres of scrub at the Larkworthy estate, Mr McGoe and party, finished their work last week, and the field has since been ploughed, ibis being done by Messis Hanks and Garlick. Mr Tlowell, mining expert from America, is still at Karangabake with Mr Parke*.. Mr 11. H. Adams also proceeded to Karangahalce on Monday morning last, returning to Waiorongomai last evening. A map of the Te Aroha Goldmining district, showing all the licensed holdings and special claims granted up to July 25th, has been forwarded from the Auckland Survey Office to the Wai den atTe Aroha for the purposes of reference. The map is very neatly executed, is some sft in length by 3ft, and will be found most valuable ; in fact the want of some map of refeiencc respecting the position of ground already taken up, has been much fell for some time past. A very painful accident occurred to Mrs Collins, wife of Mr Chan. Collins, residing at Waihoii, on Saturday evening, July 21. It seems Mrs Collins is subject to fits, and on the day in question whilst preparing some food for her baby, about eighteen months old, she was seized with a parozyism, and in falling capsized a kettle of boiling water, the contents of which fell over her, severely burning the left side of her face, throat, and arm. She was discoveicd in a helpless state by her husband, who immediately applied restoratives and endeavoured to the suffering, which was intense. All through the week Mrs Collins has been very Jow and as the case requires medical attention, it was yesterday decided to remote her to the Hamilton liorpitnl, to which institution bhe was taken to-day. Miners indulging in step-dancing to the strains of a fiddle is not a thing of the pa«t, although the miner of today is a more nmttor-of-iact individual than of yore. On Monday afternoon last about a dozen men met at Mr Greenwood's, the Waiorongomai tobacconist, where dancing was ineirily indulged in ior some time, the music' being supplied by the " boss" ot the establishment, on a new and excellent violin just ai rived from Auckland.

Work in the mines at Waiorongonjai for j some months to come, (i.e. until the new additions and appliances to the present plant have been made) will principally be confined to continuing 1 the low levels now being put in, and generally opening up the giound. It is well, therefore, that it should be known that there are quite sufficient men already in the district to supply the demand for labour for some time to come, as numbers of men are continually arriving from vaiious parts of tho country in the expectation of finding- immediate employment, only to be disappointed. When the company's new appliances have been erected thore will no doubt be employment for new-comers, but at present the work is only sufficient for the local men. As the company's extended plant will not bo in working- order for several months yet, it is absolutely useless for men to seek employment in the township at present, spending the little money they have in coming to the district only to find they have to leave again. Dm ing the. past week many instances of this kind have occurred. AYe hope our contemporaries in surrounding districts will assist in making the ical facts of the case, as stated above, known. We acknowledge receipt from Messrs Gordon and Gotch, Melbourne, of a copy of a mopt useful little work, entitled, " Everybody's Pocket Cyclopaedia," of things worth knowing, things difficult to remember, and tables of reference; published by Messrs Saxon and Co., of London and New York, at the small price of sixpence. We can strongly recommend the work as being a most useful one for reference on a very great variety of subjects, and that it will be found a valuable little addition in an office ; or for tho pocket. As will be seen by advertisement, an entertainment will t-ike place in the Te Aioha Public Hall, in aid of the funds of tho Te Aroha Public Library. The programme will consist of first, a Drawing Room Entertainment, by the Mount Aroha Troubadours ; secondly, Vocal and Instrumental Selections, in which the leading local talent will take part, the whole to conclude with a dance. The libiarj' funds aie at present at a very low ebb, and we hope there will be a full house on Friday night. Auckland produce market report?, and news from the Marototo-Coromandel mining districts, will be found on our fifth column. Mr 11. L. Harston, piano tuner, ai rived at Te Aroha yesterday, on his periodical visit. Orders for Mr tlarston may be loft ! at the office of this paper. The Timeß, Wellington, in an article on the Knuii Timber Company, refers to the fact that it will shortly deal with " nearly all the present kauri forests alienated from the Crown," and says :— -" What we are in- ; clined to dread in the contemplated operations of this large company is the extensive disforesting of the country, which must be one of the results. Whatevermay be the financial outcome of the company's operations, there can be no doubt as to the practical and physical consequences." The article goes on to say •--'•Every inducement should be offeied to farmers and land purchasers to plant trees on portions of their holdings. This should be mode a condition of every perpetual lease and deferredpayment sale ; and special terms might be made to cash purchasers in consideration of their contracting to plant efficiently a due propoition of their land with trees." A new railway timetable comes into force on Monday next, paiticuhus of which will be found in another column, and by which it will be seen no alteration has been made /as regards the days on which trains 'will arrive fr®m and leave Te Aroha for Auckland. The hour of departure from Te Aroha has, however, been altered to 8.30 a.m. We believe this change will be found to meet general approval, as many complaint* were made by those travelling- to the Cit}', at being landed in Auckland at half-past nine at night, as is the case under the existing time table. In the case of invalids this wa.s specially objectionable. Cambridge will now be placed on a par with Te Aioha as regards train service, and have a triweekly service each way, the department, however, undertaking to convey the mails on the alternate days. Mr Montgomery, of the Thames School of Mines, is about to utilise the new experimental plant in testing throe different parcels of ore from Karangahake, Each parcel consists of lewt., and the course of treatment will be as follows : — Dry crushing, sampling, and assaying ; roasting, and assaying again to see what loss (if any) is caused by roasting ; and, finally, amalgamating. A correspondent to the Herald writes : — " Conflicting opinions have been given at various times on the relative advantages of growing winter or spring wheat, and various reasons have been given for the excessively low prices which have ruled during the present season. Some farmers have found it advantageous to grow only spring wheat, but when offering it for s.ife have been told 1 that millers require a large quantity of winter wheat to mix with that sown in the spring for making good flour, so that those who grow only spring wheat must content themselves with low prices. One case brought (under my notice is that of a farmer who grew 30 acres of winter wheat last season, and in the adjoiningfield on somewhat inferior soil, a crop of spring wheat was grown, the yield in the latter being nearly double that of the foimer, and although the winter wheat was acknowledged by the milleis to be a good sample, the highest price offered was that obtained for spring wheat, 3s Id per bushel, in Auckland. One of the best rotations practised in Waikalo is that of growing turnips, which are fed off during- the winter months with cattle or sheep, after which the land is prepared and sown with wheat yielding fairly good crops. The miller there, who has a first-class roller mill, states that ho can produce a first-class flour from spring-sown wheat, and consequently does not offer any inducement to the farmers to grow winter wheat, because on sound commercial principles tho farmer who sows that wheat, and in pome districts loses his winter crop of turnips, has his crop some months longer in the ground, and should there Core look forward to a higher price fur his grain. On comparatively heavy land in the neighbourhood of Auckland, where turnips cannot be advantageously grown and fed off in the winter months, it may be advisable to sow the wheat early ; but in Waikato, for the reasons already given, it will be more profitable to grow spring wheat."

Tenders are invited for work in connection wsth the Te Arolia Hot Springs Domain. Mr W. Y. Gage Brown', Shaftesbirry, invites tenders for the erection of fencing. See adyt. v Mr F. Strange, of Waitoa, advertises home cured, dairy fed, bacon, hams, etc, at most moderate prices. By advertisement it will be seen tenders are invited by the Manager of the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co., for carting about two hundred tons of machinery ; also for the construction of two more scetions of the water race extension. " What a strain that is," said Mrs Palrington as she heard an air from Lucia sung in the highest style by a young lady where she was visiting. " Yes," was the response, "it is operatic." "Upper attic, is it ?" questioned she, % I should think it was high enough to be on top of the house-" " When a young lady trips daintily into the parlour, aud explains her deranged appearance by remarkiug that she had been " helping mamma to wipe the dishes," it is pretty hard to refrain from proposing on thespct;but go 3low, my boy, go slow. She may|be fooling thee. An "Englishman and a Scotchman had a dispute as to which of their respective coifntries had produced the most eminent men. Every man of noto was claimed by the Scotchman as that of a man born north of the Tweeds till finally the Englishman said • " Surely you won't claim Shakspore as a Scotchman?" "No," replied the canny Scotchman, " but yo'll maybe admit that he was maist clever eneuch to be ane ?" The company promoter 'is still in quite a whirl o± business in London, piling Tip capital by millions — on paper. During the first seventeen days of April (says the Pall Mall Gazette) the capital of the companies registered at Somerset House has exceeded £ 52,000 000, or one-third of the aggregate capital of the whole of the companies registered during 1887. Since the beginning of the year the companies registered have a nominal capital just under £100,000,000. It would be inteiesting to learn what percentage of these vast amounts represents genuine concerns. At Mr D. G. MacDonnell's office, on Wednesday laßt, 25th July, the first general meeting was held of the shareholders of the Askham-Molloy Gold Extraction Company. Thore was a quorum present, and Mr J. L. Wilson occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed, and the announcement convening the meeting was read The first business was the election of directors to replace three who had resigned, and Messrs J. H. Keep, James Macky, and Ralph, were chosen to fill the vacancies. Mr J M. Chambers stated that all the necessary apparatus was in first-class order, and that he was willing to conduct the operations with the full force of the plant for a week, and then furnish a report to the directors giving details of the lesults. Mr Hales spoke in high terms of the efficiency of the plant, and expressed a conviction that the company's operations would be an unqualified success. It was decided that work should be starte-i at the Thames on Monday, with the full power of the plant. A very aitistic and beautifully illuminated address has been prepared for presentation by the citizens of the Thames to the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, late Minister of Mines, on the occasion of his leaving the colony. The manner in which it has has been got up reflects great credit on Mr Patterson, of Owen street, Thames, who was entrusted with the work. The following is a copy of the address :—: — "TTon. W J. M.Lnrnach,C.M.G., M.H.K., — Sir, — We, the undersigned, in the name and on behalf of the people of the Thames, deshe to express our deep feeling of regret at the announced departure from this colony of so true a friend and earnest an advocate of the mining industry as yourself. No member of any New Zealand Ministry has so persistently endeavoured to advance the prosperity of the colony by bringing to the assistance of the miner a practical knowledge of # the composition of ores ; the most modem appliances for the extraction of metals therefrom ; the establishment of Schools of Mines ; and the publication of mining literature. In bidding you good-bye, we most sincerely trust that the good wishes of those whose aid you have so earnestly striven for here, may be permitted effectively to follow you to your new home, wherever that ma)' be. With every feeling of personal respect, permit us to subscribe ourselves, youis most faithfully — (signed by His Worship the Mayoi,and all the Borough and County Councillors)."