The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This above nil —to thino own polf he true, And it must follow as the nitjht- fh<« clay Thou c»n*t not then be false to any 'man.' — SnAKESTRARK.

WEDNESDAY", NOVEMBER 28, IPSB.

Bank Holiday on Friday. Annual meetings of County Council's to-dny for election of Chaiimen, etc. Pome specimens of etone from the Kail of Aberdeen mine have been forwarded to Australia, where they will he treated at the woiks of a company to whom the mine is under ofrVr. In our last issue appeared an advertisement inviting tenders for the erection of a machine house at Karanir'diake, returnable Fiidav 30th inst., to Mr J. Mc&uulup. On Monday lust we received a letter tiom Mr McCombie stating the advertise ment wns intended for our Wednesday's issur>, Fiid.iy 23id biMnp the date on which tend era clos-ed, not Friday 30th ; and th.it the Jidvoitis°uient had been despatched to us on the Monday previous. We cannot .'iccoiint for the oxtraordin iry delay in delivery, the letter only teaching us by last Friday's m.iil. The old Te Aroha battery nnd fitting, recently purchased by Mr 10, K. Cooper, is now ready for sliipment at Te A roll a to P.iero.i, whence it will be caited to its destination, Wnilekauii. A start will be made to «^et it away next week. At the meeting of the Wnitoa Koad Boaid on Saturday la^t, it was resolved to hod the next monthly meeting ou Friday, the 2lst Decernl>cr, so as not to intet fere with tlu» Mopinsville Athletic Spoi ts, which will be l>eld on the day following. We aie c,lad to learn that Air J. A. Cochranp. who recently commenced business as coachbuildei, etc., at Ie Aroha, has so far had quite us iimn}' orders sent in 'is heVonld attend to. although having several men regularly employed. Mr Ooehrane has now on hnnd oiders for new bn»»ies, etc., and the work turned out hilhe'io, so fnr f»~i we can leain. has given gicnt satisfaction to the puities ordering. To-morrow Mr J. McNicol will hold a large s.de of store and fat cattle, springers, hordes, etc., n t'ne Fiozen Meat Co's yards, Ohireruuri, co'nmen.ing at one o'clock. Mr F. Pavitt invites tenders for the election of a cottage at Waiiaknu, which will be received up lo the Bth Decemoer. Pl.iris, etc., may be i3een at his office. Mr Tlins. Wood returned to Te Aroha 33 T estPrday, after an absence of nearly nine month", dun'ne; which time he was chiefly resident .it Bioken Hill. It is said ti it time are a number of prospectors from the Thames now on the hills ;it To A rob a. Owing to an advance in the price of flour, our local bnkeis have made an additional charge of \& per Ib on bread. Air>ngements for tennis matches are being made between the Cambridge Tennis Club and the Thames Club, which will be played on the Te Aroha Domain court some time during the Christmas holidays. A cricket match has beo« arranged for Saturday next, between Waiorontronmi Club and a scratch team captained by Mr F. Pavitt. The match will be played at Waiorongomai, commencing at noon. We learn with regret that Mr D. G. Fanner, a much respected settler and miner who for a number of years past has resided at Owharo.i, died early lafet Monduv morning. Mr Farmer had not been in good health for some time past, but nothing ! snrious was apnrehended, and the hour for the wor<-t came on very suddenly ; so much bo that his parents and relatives at Te J Aroha were nnawaie that he was dangerously ill, and the shock to them was veiy . great when the information wns convoyed them on Monday that he had passed away. Mr Farmer was a son of J . Fat mer, settler of To Aroha. West The remains will be interred in Ohinenmri Cemetery, where the funeral is expected to arrive at three o'clock this afternoon. Mr Farmer was in his thirty-eighth year. Mr Baskett is fencing in three sections at Waiovongomai, and purposes to build a house there shoitly. The re-fitting of Mr Adams' steam launch is now nearly completed. All the heavy woik hns been done, and Mr Hood is putting on finishing touches in the way of painting-. On Thursday and Fiiday lasf, the Inppectrv of Schools, Mr J. S. Goodwin, examined the pupib in the Te Aroha Public School. There was an nttonduncG of 150 out of 159 on the roll. There were 99 presented in Htandards. The percentage or passes was 46.5 (being equivalent to 82 per cent, by the old method of calculation.), and the percentage of failures 17.7. The following pupils from the. school have been duly entered for the Board of Education Junior Scholarship Examination : — A If. Judkins, Jas. Garcia, and Chas. Cox. We have been requested by Mr Harrison (Max Riukle) to state that unforeseen circumstances have detained him in Auckland, and he therefore will be unable to fulfil his engagements in Te Aroha and surrounding rii«.tricrs. He will make his tour shoi t'y after Christmas. On to~niorrow evening Mr MoLeod h to deliver a lecture in Pacrou Public Hall, taking for his Mtl.jcct, "Tom Moore, The B.ivd of Kiin."

M» TT. J>ntflf> invif >«■ t.-ndnm for r'^aung ,'md lcvi'llmu iilinuL 80 acres oL" hnd. The examination of Wairongomai Public Scliool took place on Monday and yesterday, Mr .1. 8. Goodwin beinpf thtk examiner. The number on tlin roll !r 95, out of whirl) 94 woro present ; 56 i were presented in standards, of whom 4G.H ' passed (equal to 88 per cent according to (he old method of calculation) mid 12 i failed. ! Already New Zealand is reaping (he first-fruits of the coming yeais of plenty. At the opening sale held on Fiiday at Christchnrch, the wool metropolis of the colony, 1,125 bales were solo, the prices averaging one penny a pound hiyher than ut hist yexr'fi opening: sales. This may nppetir at first "ii>ht an insignificant matter" to make a cackle about ; but when we 'consider that a rise of one penny upon wottl represents- a* cash bonus of £350,000 distributed among our fanners, the import- ! ancc of the announcement is more readily rippreciiited. Mr Stead, than whom theits is no better authority in New Zealand, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce made a computation of the probable enhancement of values of the colony's expoits during the cunent year. His estimate of a penny n pound mc. i ease in the value of wool is being realised, and no doubt his other figures will prove equally accurate They represent a gain to the settlers of £15,000 from tallow, £300,250 from frozen meat, and £225,000 from wheat. The anticipated receipts from fiese four products alone, therefore, j amount to £890,250 more than was derived fiom tbe same sources in ISB7. — Auckland Star. From M'Fritchard Morgan's Welsh gold mines at Dolgelly, during four weeks 302 tons of stone yielded lG4oozs uold, or an average of s|ozs to the ton, in value nearly £6000. Thejield is legarded us almost unprecedented, and may bo taken to indicate a dividend rate of 30 per cent, per annum. In the case of the Waikato County Council v. W.M. Hay, f oi a bleach of b\ -laws by diiving over the Nairows Blidge at other than a walking pace, heard bo fore Capt. Jackson, K.M., at Hamilton; judgment wiu given as follows on Thmsday last: — In this case it has not been proved thnttheWtiikato Count}- Council h-ive the legal control of the Nairows Bridge. 1 his bridge spans I the Waikato ikiver, and connects the counties of Waikato and Waipa. By the 9th section of the Public Works Act, 1884, which Act was in force when these bylaws \\ ere made by the Waikato County Council, it s.iy,s that every biidge across a river at a point where the two banks are in diCL'oitnt Conn tic, v>hetliei or not the Counties Act of 1879 is suspended in either r,f such counties, or in both, shall In under the control ot theGovernor.oi of such one of ihcCounties,or of such local authority within each of Mich counties, as the Minister fiom time to time may direct. Now, it does not apoear that the control of the Narrows bridge bus been given by the Minister to the Waikato Count}-, as provided by the above-mentioned Act, and the informant in these cases, the clerk of the Waikato Count}' Council, knows of no such control being given by the Minister, and has never seen any document i elating to them on tbe matter. I am theieirore of opinion that the Waikato Comity Council had no legul power to make this b}-law aa far as the Narrows j Britlge'ia concerned." — Waikato Times.