The Aroha And UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 321, 1 December 1888, Page 2

The Aroha And UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' l-hi* above all —to thine own self he true, Ami it must follow as the nipjlu thp day ~ ,Thou cnjint not, then bo false to any rran.' 1 l > - ~ ' — Shakespeahr.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1888

There will he. a Ritting of the It. M. nnd Wai dens Court at Te Aioha on Tuesday next. Mr A. W. Edwards opens business in his large new drapery store, to-day." The u Q ual monthly meeting of thr> Te Arnha Goldfield School Committee will ho held on Monday evening at H o'clock. Willis and party \> ill re-commoneo sheaiing at the Annnndsde estate on Mondny next, finishing the work they took np some time back. Reports from Marototo state that matters afe improving there. Some firstclass scold is being got in the stopes above the B drive. We understand that the Hon. Mr Fergus, Minister of Mines, and Mr A. J. Cadman, M.H.R., will visit the Ohincmnri district uhoi tly. It i* stated the Minister of Lnnds purpose? leaving Wellington early next week on a visit to Auckland and the northern districts We learn with regret that Mr Aif. Shepherd, proprietor of the Tramway Hotel, Karnngahake, on Wednesday last met with a serious accident, being thrown from his hnrse, whilst returning home after attending the funeral of Mr If. G. Farmer, whereby he T v.ia rendered unconcioup, and had to be can led home. At Thames the election o£ Mayor on Wedi.esday last resulted in the return of Mr W. Carpenter by a majority ot twenty voteaovertheex-Mayor ; thenumbers being for Carpenter 183, Brodie 163. Mr Brodie, who has also filled the important portion of County Chan man for neaily twelve yeaia pu*t, has now been succeeded by Cr Samuel Bagnall ; Mr Brodie declining to seek re-election. A man named Ambrose Trust met with a nasty accident whilst engaged in shearingat the Auckland Agricnltur.il Co. 'a estate. In some way the shearo slipped, and inflicted a deep wound in the thumb, which will, it is feared, present him from working for a considerable time. On Tuesday last Mr Seager Mason, of Waikato, was kicked by a horse in the Wuitoa s.de '\ards, which unfortunately bioke his le<^. lie was taking some horses thruugh to the Waikato, ami was engaged pnddoeking them at tho time of the accident. Amongst the cattle disposed of at Mr J. S. Buckland's Cambiidgc sale on Wednesday hist, were three exceptionally large and choice five-year-old fat steers, from the Gorton estate. They were purchased for £15 each by Mr J McNicho), who we believe purposes to have them shipped to England in the form of frozen be< £. On Sunday next Rev S L.iwi y is announced to preach at the. Te Aioha Wesieyan Church both morning and evening. In the moinin.a the subject of tho sermon will bs " Man's interest in the Sabbath," and in the evening "The Church's Mission to cast out devils," At Waitoa yards yesterday, Mr J. MeXicol had a good sale. About "100 head of oattlo principally fresh speyed heit'era changed hands, the average prico realised for heifers being £2 7s 6d. Fat steers sold at £5. Fat wethers 10-. 6d and 13 J , for shorn and unshorn respectively. By the Tarawera from Auckland for Sydney on Wednesday last, owing to the increased demand and good prices now ruling for butter in the Aubtr.ilian market* 8 , the New Zealand Dairy Association shipped 05,0001b of butter of excellent quality. The monthly meeting of Ohinemuri County Council, will be held atPaeroa this afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock. At the close of Ihe ordinary meeting there will be a meeting of the lliver Board. On Tuesday next at noon will be bold at the Warden's Court, Te Aroha, the right to occupy Section 7 Block 4, Te Aroha, situated in Kolleston-streer, and having a good house and shop thereou ; opposite Mrs Thomson's hotel. As the sale will be without reserve (beyond a small sum fixed as upset price) there should be good competition. The severe frosts which have been expeiienoed lately in Ihis diatiict have coubiderably impaired the prospects of a good fiuit ciop, which, had it not been for the unseasonable change in the latter end of the spring, would have been a very large one. However, the majority of the fruit treeo in and around Te Aroha '-ire looking very healthy, and in spite of the frosts now show a promising army of young .fruit, particularly thote on which the fruit had set before the end of October. With fine weather a good crop may be expected of apples, especially the early varieties. Plums of all kinds show well at present, and should be plentiful. We aie in receipt of the November number of the. Illustrated Australian News (Ne,vv Zealand , Edition). , The present number is turned out in first: class style both as regards illustrations und reading matter.' Amongst tne -illustrations are the following : Mr D. S. Wallace's 'Mentor, winner of the last Melbourne^ Cup ; and , several bkelc-hes relating to the'Cup/mdet-' ing and' Melbourne Exhibition: also a* full page illustration entitl<ld !t'Over-lunding-with Cattle : The NigltfWJ|tcf.i!; There is albo a Jargie. iHustijited 'coloured' bi{paiement ? entitlejdy; ( :\Viho comes" ; *)V presenting a yoVng %h\' in^anj-attjtud.e' of a\ H r tU}\ -expfictaUouL-vyUh.ljjir !a?;xns s r<ui«d J»V«J>Jfe4^i"' M i^k > waichiag-f er n ßdme f oti & • ;tvh,§is* lfe)j J; c amraV>uf):jhe_ path, . ' ,Tl.e eulo'ni'^aro* well bUuijlijd '{ m<\ thtf 'v/b^ie; ifunasH vWv4iu>rea{W:jfmjlbrj i . "**"':',

-• We no" to ncK-nowl. c! f> r"C'int of The Bn^urjpnirj^, pgbU t sb''(l n^'Bri^jjane.^ The M»s**t'niui)b'^ to\ Ifnncl oopt,iitis'Ji fn'll'pnsf w^ll fxceutfyl likeness pt Siih\VV;, P. $. jjjrvous^j .;' j j, ;j '\>. j I In nfjclnPt isBjio\vQ"^nhiia|(eil a; xyßpojt rff .the fjn^crtnerit'flt.Tt^tolj^yji boep ,^'iVen Hy C»pt(]iui Jijcksnn, Rv.M., rospecting'tJje' Nf^row^.Bndgo (Wftijcato). At a m^etinjj nf the-WjiiknJbo-Connty Council on Wed nesday, the County Clerk read the popv of ;v letter he hud written to therßeMflent Mn&istnite with refprencc to his judsjt^qpt, 'as ptihliKhed in ihe IlGrald, in the n».«e, Waikato Council v. W, M. Hay, lj for driving ut u trot over *hoNarrown Bridge, in which }t was Rtnted that ho (the clerk) know of no rjociunents hoin^r in the possession of the Connty, showing that tlie pnntrol of the hi id/re hnu been veßted in the ConncO. -He denied having stated bo, nnd re".d documents showing thut* the Government recognised tho control of the bridge as belonging to the* County. Tlip Council dopv«ented :i legal appeal against Caphiin Jackson's jndirment, bntinstiucted the clerk to npply to tho Government to have tho Narrows Bridge and the bridge over tli' 1 Wuii'jnnuuinOj at t'iu Meremere, gazottPtl nb being under the County's contiol.