The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMAS ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMAS ADVOCATE.

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

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1888.

There will he a sitting of the R.M. and Warden's Court, Te Aroha on Tuesday next. Specifications for proposed new works in the Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain may be seen at the Boards* office on and after Monday next. Intending contractors should remember tenders will clone on Wednesday, 21st inst, Further pnrticulnra may be obtained on application at the Board's office. The Morrinsvile Annual Sports and Hnck Races will be held on Saturday, December 22nd. Already a considerable sum has been subscribed, and pnergetic measures are being taken to make the -meeting a thorough success. The programme wili be found duly advertised in our columns to-da3\ Intending competition will do well to note entries close on December 12th. Shearing operations have been finished at Mr Parr's, Waitoa, and the shearers, Willis and party, will commence on the Larkworthy estate on Monday, To-morrow afternoon, commencing at two o'clock, a cricket match will be played at Waiorongomai between the Battery employee's v. All-comers. The match will take place on the Governmant reserve, and as the ground is in good condition an interesting game may be anticipated. The secretary of the club has received a letter from Katikati asking that a match be arranged between the members of the Katikati club and iWaiorongomai "With reference to this we understand that arrangements have been made for a match at an early date which will in all probability be played at Waiorongomai. At a meeting of the club on Wednesday last the secretary was instructed to communicate with the clubs at Tuakau, Hamilton, Tauranga, and Cambridge, in order to ascertain the open days on which matches might be fixed. On Thursday night two shocks of earthquake were experienced at Te Aroha. The most severe shock occurred at 10.13 p.m., and was accompanied b} r a low rumbling noise, but only lasted a very few seconds. The first shock occurred a short time previously. In our last issue we announced that the thoroughbred horses Carbine and Tradition, winners at the recent Melbourne race meeting, had been sold for 3000 and 3050 guineas respectively ; both having proved firf-t-class race~horses, and that have already won large sums of money, and may yet win many thousands for their new owners — there was nothing very extraordinary as regards the prices paid. But a recent sale of a Clydesdale horse for £30Q0, breaks the record we believe in the matter of high prices paid for draught horses. The horse referred to is the two-year-old colt Prince of Albin, first in his'olass at the recent show of the Highland Society at Glasgow, and we understand first, in fact wherever he has been exhibited. The sale was a bona fide cash transaction, with no luck-penny, except handing over the policy of! insurance on the colt's life. Mr Gilman, of Monti ose, was the purchaser from Mr Kilpatrick of praigie Mains. On WjJMnesday mght about eleven o'clock a thunderstorm broke over Te Aroha, but did not last long. During its continuance the flashes of lightening were very vivid. The Auckland City Council have re* solved that the Proclamation, bringing the City of Auckland within the operations of the Contagious Diseases Act, shall be rescinded. At the ußfial monthly meeting of Hamilton Borough Council held on Tuesday last, the following resolution was passed ;—; — " That resolution No 1, of the 4th April 1887, be recinded re cattle not being allowe<Ho nan on the streets during the nijjl.it,, and |hat the above resolution come up|p,o|iejr##pu on and after the 30th inst."

The Waitoa Road . Board invite tenders for re-forming a portion of Stanley road. Mr J. S. Buckland >\ ill hold his next live stock sale at Waitoa on Friday, 23rd inst. Tenders will be received by the Mine Manager, Champion Gr. and S. M. Co., up till 6 p.m., Thursday, for carting. It is estimated that the loss of property in the Broken Hill fire is not less than £70,000, and that the insurances do not exceed £20,000. The contractor for the formation and sanding on the main road, near Murray's, has commenced work, and already a large portion of the sanding has been completed. We underatand that a settler, residing about seven miles below Te Aroha, contemplates starting a flaxmill, there being an abundance of the raw material on his property. Water will be used as the motive power. The next Blue Ribbon meeting at Morrinsville, will bo held on Saturday evening next, November 24th. Mr H. Buttle will preside. These entertainments at Morrins ville are always of a most interesting char* acter, and invariably attract large audiences. About four o'clock j r esterday evening some loose flax in the scutching department of the Te A.roha flaxmill became ignited by some sparks from the engine, and for some little time the building was in danger, but with the energetic measures of the employees it was ?oon suppressed. MrH. H. Adams invitos tenders for the sinking of a shaft fifty feet, at Waiorongomai, for the Alameda Syndicate, Mr Thomson has commenced the fencing of twelvo acres of land on the western bank of the Waihou river, adjoining the railway line, which was recently granted him by the Government. Messrs Brown, Campbell and Co.'s advertisement will be found in our columns to-day. This firm, at the present Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, Avere very successful exhibitors, carrying off both first prize, and " first" on Special Mention List, for running ules. The report made by the diroctors of the Bank of New South Waleß, at the recent half yearly general meeting, was most favourable, showing that after paying a dividend of 15 pel cent, and a bonus of 2£ per cent, there remained £10,000 to carry to renerve fund (which now ntands at £920,000), and £8,285 to credit of new account. An Auckland tradesman who has re>cently returned from Melbourne, stated that he does not consider the prices for land in Melbourne outrageously high except in the leading thoroughfares. Working nipn can get building allotments in the ] suburbs for £3 10s per foot, and they have been, until lately, paying more than that in Auckland. The Auckland artisans he saw in Melbourne were doing fairly well, wages were comparatively low, but work was constant Clerks and shopmen were a drugin the market, and were looked down upon as useless and with feelings of contempt, while good skiljed artisans could command a good wage. He saw an ex-clerk in one of our leading institutions doing duty as bricklayer's hobman at 5s a day. His impression is that the collapse in the land bor.m will not take place till next winter, and then- that the reaction will not be so severe as many people anticipate. Wednesday's Thames Star refers as follo%vs to a trial of Mr Harcourt's model amalgamator :—": — " In a former issue we mentioned that the shareholders of the Korea Beach Shiicina: claim, near Tairua, had sont a parcel of 3001bs of black sand to the Thames for treatment by Mr Harcourt's amalgamator. The work of putting it through was finished to-day for the return of 24 grains of gold or equal to7dwts 18grsto the ton of 22401b5; assay value of gold per ounce, £2 18s ; value of sand per ton, £1 Is 7d, There are also 301 bs of concentrations for further treatment. Mr Harcourt's amalgamator and concentrator is of simple construction, being a cylindrical-bottomed tank, with circular discs set anglewise on a. shaft which leads through the centre of the tank. ±'he angles are set at a degree calculated to represent the same motions as result by anyone panning off a dish of dirt, the ordinary motion being gone through on each foot of shafting longtitudinally and set in action by paddles. A supply of water washeß off the debris to any specific gravity that it iB set to, and the remdura is drawn off from the plug of the tank with the mercurj, from which the amalgam is separated and retorted. This is the first time that an opportunity has occurred for trying this machine with black sand — ordinary taiN ings having generally been formerly put through — and we are glad to say that the result appears to be very satisfactory."