THE AROHA AND OHINEMURI NEWS UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 304, 3 October 1888, Page 2

THE AROHA AND OHINEMURI NEWS UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

• This above all —to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou o&nst not then be false to any man, — Shaxebpiabb.

. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER .3, 1888.

Miss Hould, who succeeds Mrs Maradon as assistant teacher at Te Aroha Public School, arrived from Hamilton on Saturday, and entered upon her new duties on Monday morning. A meeting of the library committee was to have been held on Monday evening last, to consider the question of raising funds to carry on the institution, but lapsed for want of a quorum. The Chairman of the Waitoa Road Board, Mr Chepmell, has given instructions that the Government be communicated with regarding the position of the village settlers on the western bank of the Waihou river, many being almost debarred from communication with the outer world owicg to the absence of accessible roads. The Board will ask the Government to contribute towards the construction of proper roads, so urgently needed. A soiree, concert, and dance, will be held in the Waiorongomai Public Hall on night of the Prince of Wales' Birthday, No vein* ber 9th. Mr R. Harris has been appointed agent for the sale of the Ts'A&oha and Ohinemdri News. * It is with feelings of great regret we learn that Mr Chas. Gould, of Waitoa, has found it necessary to filo a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. An advertisement stating such is the, case appears in our columns to-day. Mi Gould has been resi dent in the district for a number of years past, is in fact, one of our pioneer settlers, both he and his brother having invested largely in land, in Waitoa Riding, Piako County. In the improvement and cultivation of this land, Mr Gould has expended many thousands of pounds during the past few years ; and has proved a most energetic and enterprising settler, whose failure cannot be attributed to any fault or neglect on his part, but has been brrught about by a succession of adverse years for farmers, owing to the serious fall in prices of live stock and all farm produce, and the great depreciation in the value of land. It seems hard that he should, after weathering the storm so long, have hid to at last succumb and lose the fruits of all his labour and capital, more especially' just now when there are many indications that the cloud of depression is-lif ting, and better times in store for agriculturists/ However, his i« not a singular case, as too many of our best colonists have come to grief „in a similar manner of late. Mr Gould was a most useful member of Piako County Council, • and took a great interest in the progreasof Te Aroha. Mr E, X.. Cooper having purchased the Te Aroha five stamp battery (known as Stacey's), has let a contract to Messrs J. McLeod Murray and Jess Devey, to take down arid .convey, same to the Thames. The contractors will commence 'on 1 the work^at once, and have one month allowed them for carrying out, the contract. " , Mr ' Gr /Lipsey's four-roomed houee, ;Kctuku street, Te "'* "Aroha, 'narrowly esca ped "Destrnction by fire ~pri ;, Monday f "-The brickfehimney" appears ,to}h)ive?been Very foul ', andrthe iVoot^atigli it •fire^iwitlijth^ chimheyiwas^soon^in :a>greatyb]azefandj A. Rom, neighbours; H^pxtxx rmtolylheav yirairi tliad^lleiQ^ jnre/irprn^xiie^^liowerS^pxpsparlis'Jtliatifelr fu^oni^fein^RT^fire^gj^d tfal Iyll)l^^^ililp

- The^§]l for the election of^^ a^ miinß'er to ] ijeprefi^iitWaito^BidiniEf :on^Pi«k||Cqunty Council, (vice "Mr Gojild^resigned^ tajkes, place , nt Morrinßville ?onj. Saturday/ nexfc Th'efcpnteet ripw lies ' betw ; een\Me'ssrs Jas, Bailey and s John^HonellYiMr H.^unbaK Johnson haying- withdrawn, from" the field. It 'is, generally * considered the .voting will be close ; both candidates hay* ing a strong body of supporters. V j - A' 'preliminary "meeting of Te, Aroha ! Town B6ard~was held on last* Saturday evening for. the' purpose of electing a Chairman, etc., all members being pre* sent. . Mi* E. Gallagher was unanimously elected Chairman. > The Chairman and Clerk were authorised to sign cheques; and on the motion of Com Mills, "the following resolutions were declared carried:— (1) That'the resolution regulating the meetings of the Board, now in the minute book, be rescinded. (2) That the meetings be held on the second Saturday in each month, at seven o'clock. At the monthly meeting of the Thames High School Board held on Monday last, a letter was read from Mr J. Cotter, solicitor for Mr J, McCosh Clarke, stating that the applicants for the Alameda Special Claim, Waiorongpmaj, .had, resolved^ to accept the terms asked by the~Board for" the lease of the ground. As will be seen by advertisement, on next Saturday evening a meeting of the Waiorongomai Cricket Club will be held at Mr Smardon's Waiorongomai Hotel. All persons interested in cricket are invited to attend, and we hope a goodly number will respond to the invitation, and a strong club be established for carrying on this manly game during the ensuing season. There should be no difficulty at Waiorongomai in getting together (after a little practice) a first-class team, able to give a good account of themselves in any matches likely to be arranged. The club will start this season with the advantage of having several old hands to direot operations ; and there should be no difficulty in obtaining the use of suitable ground close to the township. At tho last meeting of the Waitoa Road Board, held on Saturday, September 29, it was stated that considerable annoyance was caused by some mischievous persons, who wantonly displace the gates erected by the Board in various parts of the Riding. These gates are removed under various pretences, some contending that they are a nuisance, whilst others justify their action by stating they are erected on private property. If the offence be continued, it will no doubt result in legal action being taken. Mr J. S, Buckland announces by advertisement that he will sell by public auction, on Saturday next, at Cambridge, nineteen first olass hacks and draught horses ; without reserve. By Monday's poßt we received a letter from a correspondent, residing at Waihou with reference to the forthcoming election of a member to represent Waitoa Riding in Piako County Council (vice Mr C. Gould resigned). Our correspondent expresses great regret that Mr Hanmer should have retired, and considers he would have polled a large number of He considers Mr Bailey's inteiesls are centred beyond Cambridge, and, seeing Mr Hanmer was no longer in the field, urges the ratepayers to vote for Mr Johnson, as a resident amongst them. After Mr Johnson, the writer thinks Mr Horrell should be supported. By the same post, however, we received a notification from the Returning Officer (see advertisement) to the effect that Mr Johnson had also re* tired from tie contest. As therefore his election is impossible, we presume our correspondent has -no further desire for the publication of his letter ; being under the impression, when he wrote it, that Mr Johnson was going to the poll. Some time ago we.referred to the influx into Waiorongomai of all classes of workmen from all parts of the country, who have been impelled there with the false hope of obtaining work, spending what little they might haye in making, what seems to them, the shores of plenty. The township has recently been visited by a number of such men, but of course they were obliged to take their swags again, no work being open to them. . As we previously stated, it will not be until some considerable time after Christmas — when the new and extensive plant for the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co. has been erected, that there will be a field for labour, and until then those in search of employment would do well to abide by the warning we now give them. During the progress of the excavation work in the domain for the formation of a bowling green, a most peculiar feature was brought to light, illustratingthe mysterious character of the land in the vicinity of the thermal springs. The work of cutting down the slope has been carried out for some time in ordinary soil, but when at a depth of about twelve feet the contractors came across a quantity of timber lying in a mass of confusion, and also a large amount of vegetable matter, consisting of palms und fern, and the leaves apparently of the trees lying about. These leaves were embedden in a sulphurous deposit, and when first discovered, were as fresh and green as those on the trees in other parts of the domain, but upon being submitted to the light and air thoy quickly lost their brilliancy and commenced to decay. That these leaves should have been thus preserved some twelve feet below the surface soil, demonstrate* the preservative powers of the chemicalproperties of the soil in which they were embedded. An Episcopal Mot.-r-Can this be true ? It is eaid that the Bishop of London went to see one of his parishioners, a lady with a prod igious family, _ which had recently been increased. As -he" rose to* leave the lady 6topped him with, " But you haven't j seen my last, baby." " No," he quickly replied; ",and- 1 never expect to !" Then: it is stattd/he fled.—Londori Figaro! -