(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 2

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The ordinary 'diiiirterly^m^tinar^r, the Ohmemun .Licencing "Committee , was held at the' Paeroa Public Hnll r ,o'n Saturday last at noon. \Present-Messrs Quinn, (chairman), Cock, Barrett,;Far-' rner,^and jßnpdg/as^.H The only business hefpr4 the" Committee was tho Application for tho' transfer oF the license of the Ovylmroft Hote) K ,from . W;., Pococta to, ITafry _! Meyer. < Th"is x wai granted. '"" A good deal of discussion took -place- as* to the payment of. travelling /expenses to members <>F th<* Committee, An accounl fi>r > L 3( 10s for such was passed, tiie Committee deci-Mug it was legal " The Ohinemnri School Committee held ifs monthly meeting on Monday evening last. X Pre^enfc — Me«srs ' Lipsey (ehairniftn) 7l ßr> l«f!on,l «f!on, Sl«aw 7 nn4 Elvvanls (^oer<'t«ii'y). Borne surprise '\Vs»s evinced hv memhers n( the arhifrary action fof the Board of Education in having withdrawn tho resolution to ald to tlie accommodation, of the Paeroa School. There are now 140 children on the roll, and there is only seating accommodation For ] 20. The Secretary was instructed to lay thse facts before X >ard,, and reiterate the request for increased accommodation. The matter of the school fpast was entered into, and it was resolve 1 to hohl the same at the Junction paddock (by the kind permission of Mr Rohson),"on the Ist prox. The proprietor of the Paeroa Skating; Rink promised half the proceeds of one night toward the fea?t. Mr Alfred Lockwool, who some months b'ick proceeded to Sydney with his newly patented process for extracting an 1 snving 1 gold and silver, has met with ?ucofSs there. He has succeeded in getting a powerful syndicate to back him, and is expected here in a fortnight in company with a gentlem-m of m^nns, who is prepared to orectthe plant wherever *nch would be useful. One is to he erected at Waitekauri as soon as Mr Mr Lock wood re'ums. Mr McGuire is now busily engaged in preliminaries for erecting the plan*. At Waihi the work done in the Silverton is proving highly satisfactory. I understand that the Martha mine is likely to change ownership shortly. At Karangahake the furnace is still closed down, and m liters are most unsatisfactory in connection with it, Mr Shepher 1 is slowly progressing, and will soon !m) convalescent. Mr Cooper's Jubilee plantis arriving at Paeroa. The boiler, which weighs 4 tone, is to he «ont trY the Thames per KotuUu to Messrs Price Bros., to be overhauled.