The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

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

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1888.

Geo. Colebrook, formerly a carpenter at Te Aroha, but recently of Waihi, where he was proprietor of the Waihi Hotel, on Wednesday last filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. It is estimated that the miners' strike has cost the mine masters and men over £150,000. Mr Devore, Mayor of Auckland, who has recently travelled through the droughtstricken portions of Australia, says that the settlers of this favoured land have no conception of the sufferings now being undergone by some of our fellow-colonists in Australia. At a meeting of the Boards of Directors of the Cambria and Trenton G. M. Co's, Thames, held on Wednesday last, it was unanimously resolved to recommend the voluntary winding up of both the companies, with a view of forming a new com* pany with a capital of £25,000 in 50,000 shares at 10s eack, nil paid up, to acquire and nmalgnmute the licensed holdings of the Cambiia and Trenton Gold Mining Companies, Messrs Reynolds and Co. of the Waikato Creameiies (who were recently awarded first prize for butter at the MeK bourne Exhibition) have announced their intention of giving three pence per gallon for milk of standard quality, (viz., ten per cent cream; during the months of June, July, August, and September, and one farthing per gallon extra for evory one per ceDt of cream above ten. A wedding took place on Monday last at Te Aroha, the bride and bridegroom hailing from Waiorongomai ; but so quietly were the proceedings carried out that very few were aware of the event until after it was over. The bride was Mrs Chas. Joy, the bridegroom Mr Chas. Jenkins, formerly of Waiorongoma , but who, for several years past, has resided in Gippsland, from whence he returned about a fortnight ago. Rev S. Lawry officiated on the occasion, and the bride was given away by Mr W. J. Elliott. Several more licensed holdings were declared forfeited at the Thames Warden's Court on Thursday last, particulars will be found on our fourth page. Little was don 3 in the direction of celebrating the Prince of Wales' Birthday locally ; even in the matter of holiday keeping there was nothing approaching unanimity. The Te Aroha Band of Hope meeting, which was announced to have been held on last Wednesdciy evening, was unavoidably postponed owing to the wet weather. The date on which the meeting will now bo held will be anuounced in a future issue. The Canterbury Cup, of 500 soys, distance two miles, on Thursday last was won by Mr P. Butler's Manton, by Musket. Yesterday, being a public holiday, we were unable to receive our usnal batch of telegrams last evening. Amongst the visitors now staying at Te Aroha nre Messrs H. Brett (proprietor of the Auckland Evening Star), and Mr John Ross (of Sargood, Son and Ewen). Mr J. C. Firth left- again for Auckland yesterday, after a stay of several days. Mr J. McOlarke, local director of the Te Aroha S, and G.M. Co., also visited Te Aroha this week. i Mr and Mrs J. Lavery arrived at Te Aroha last evening from Auckland, after an absence of a few months. It will be remembered Mr Lavery, on leaving Te Aroha, went with his family to Queensland, but we learn Mrs Lavery's health has been so unsatisfactory that it was decided to return to New Zealand. During Mr and Mrs Lavery's long stay in Te Aroha they made many friends, and will be warmly welcomed back. We hope soon J to henr of .a great improvement with ! respect to Mrs Lavery's health. We understand Messrs T. Bradley and Co. are the successful tenderers for the Thames-Te Aroha, Te Aroha-Post OfficeRailway Sbition, Te Aroha- YVaiorongomai mail contracts for tho ensuing two years.

The following 1 is a statement of the liabilities and a^eta in the estate of T. M. Humphreys, solicitor, formerly of Karnngaluike, who recently filed a petition to bo adjndsreda bankrupt:— -Liabilities :—Unsecured—Auckland : C. G. White, £750 ; Russell and Campbell, £120 ; T. and S. Morrin and Co., £16 ; R. Brooks, £2 16a ; Humphreys and George, £9 ; Hesketh and Richmond, £3 4a ; fltnr, £4 10s ; Herald, £10 10s; W. McOulloch and Co., £5 ; N. Z, Smelting Co., £40; P. Oliphar.t, £18 ; E. Waite, £10 ; F. llowe, £2 15s ; J. Hoe, £10. Thames: J. Reid, £55 ; J. llicker, £10 ; Bank of N.Z., £15 ; estato of A. Hogg, £3 10s ; R. Mcßrinn, £4 ; Jackson, £8. Cnmbridgo : J. MoNichol, £15 ; total, £1112 4s 4d. Assets :— Book i debts, £197 lla 4d, estimated to produce £20 ; office furniture, £10 ; total, £30. Dr. Newman, M.H.R., one of the Commissioners for Now Zealand in connection with the Melbourne Exhibition, states that he has not the slightest doubt that the result of this Exhibition will be immensely profitable to New Zealand, and is curtain New Zealand can beat all the other Australasian Colonies. 110 further adds : " Our farmers, if they have faith in themselves, should distance the other colonies in all kinds of agricultural prod nee (wheat included), at any time an exhibition is held in the Australian colonies. I say we have made great progress in the last few years in everything connected with produce from the land, and we ought to be the acknowledged source of every variety of land produce before a similar exhibition can again be held in these colonies," The Wellington Post refers as follows to the return of many, who within the past few months, attracted by the glowing accounts of the prosperous condition of affairs on the other side, turned their backs on New Zealand :—": — " Every steamer from Australia is> now bringing back large numbers of the very class who were recently so eager to flock to Australia, and no doubt the majority are men who find that they made a mistake in leaving New Zealand for ' Australia. Last week's steamer to Bluff bi ought 59 steerage passengers, and this week 85. At this rate it will not be long before our recent loss of population is fully made up. Of course there are amongst those who went away a great number of men who, however anxious to get back, unfortunately lack funds for doing so ; of that being the case there is abundant evidence. The captains of steamers from Australian ports to New Zealand are inundated with applications for reduced or free passages, and have to use the utmost vigilance to guard against stowaways. Every mail brings hundreds of letters from men expressing regret at having left New Zealand, and stating that they are far worse off in their new country than here, and are striving hard to get the means of getting back. The lesson has been a severe one to the colony and to them, but its ultimate effects on both will probably be beneficial ." Singular Facts. — Clergymen sometimes select odd texts on which to hang their sermons. Here are two which were chosen by a divine who recently died at Wellingborough : " And ho took from the lion'fs mouth two legs and the part of an ear ;" " Four-and-twenty knives and forks." But still more curious is the one that was chosen by a clergyman in the days of. chignons: "Top-not come down." On some of his congregation waiting upon him to ask in what part of the Bible he had found it, lie referred them to Matthew xxiv. 17, " Let him which is on the house-top not come down." When Dublin Cathedraljwas re-opened after restoration at tho expense ! of a Mr Wise, the Archbishop took for his text, " Go thou and do like Wise. " Not to be outdone, a clergyman in his diocese, when opening a church built bj a brewe'-, said that his text was to be found, i He brews xxx.— Truth.