MOON'S PHASES. FOR JANUARY, 1889.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 331, 5 January 1889, Page 2

MOON'S PHASES. FOR JANUARY, 1889.

Now Moon , 2ml, 8.47 n.-n. First Quarter, 9tli, 0.20, p.m. Full Moon, 17th, 5 ] 6 n.m Lrisfc Quarter, Sfnli, 3. 30 n.m. Now Moon, 31st, 8.41) p.m.

There w v as a very large attendance Rt Mr C, Goulds clenring sale of household furniture, live and dead stock, at Waitoa 3'estorday. and, speaking generall\ r , everything aold lemarkobly well. Attention isdirected to a numberof new advertisements which will be foifhd in our columns to-day. Very general regret is felt at Mr and Mrs Chas. Gould leaving the district. During their residence at Waijoa for a number oL' years past thoy have proved themselves excellent neighbours, and made many warm friends, by whom they will be greatly missed. Desiring to give expres sion to their feeling's in some united manner, a number r>i! their friends assembled at Mr Gubbins residence on Monday last, when a presentation was made to Mis Gould of a very handsome salad bowl and biscuit box, on behalf, ol Messrs Gubbins, Cltepmell, N, I. Hunt, Burnett, Horrell, Willis, Browning, ole, etc. On New Year's Duy Messrs Bradley and Co. conveyed a very largo number ot" persona from Thames to the picnic at Hikutaia and back. The new conch Maroloto, driven by Mr Bind Icy, had over forty passengers aboard, There will be a sitting of the R.M. Court at Paeroa on Monday. Ohinetnuri County Council invite tendern for forming and fascining about twenty chains of road in Waitoa Hiding. Tendois close at 2 p,m., Saffifsday 12th inst. at Paeroa. Specifications may be seen at Mr F. Strange's on and alter Monday next, and the work to be done will bo pointed out on the ground on Tuesday next, commencing near Mr StmngeVut one o'clock. The salo of La Monte furnace and con> nections, mining plant, etc., under distress warrant in the ci.se Hctherington v. Chambers, took place at Karangahake yesterday afternoon, andrealised the lollowing prices : — La Monte Water Jacket furnace and connections;Cl4, .0 11. C, Wick ; assay balance, J£l?> to same buyer ; weights of assay balance &I '2s Cd to do ; quantity of tools, £1. Such ab&unl prices almost meant giving the propoity away. The next meeting of tho School fete Committee will be helcbn Monday 17th inst at 7 p.m. Those having accounts against the Committee aie requested to tender them prior to tho meeting. The ordinary inciting of tho To Aroha School Committee will take plhuo at 8 o'clock the same evening ; and a full and punctual attendance of members is lequtMud. The qu.wtcily meeting of the Upper TiiumeH Cncuit ol tue Wosleyau Church uas held last Thnrj?d,iy evening at To Aiolm. Theio wis a iair attendance oi" otVicoboaniJ^ from the To Aroba end of the Circuit and one from Ohinemmi. The ncoiac was found to Ik i several pour.ds shoit of the pxpenilituie, aad tho question of: ftuther rc'tiCMichtU(.'nt had to be faced. It whs resolved ; "Th.tt Elliott having stated that he was likely to be lemo/ed in Apiil next, this meeting regrets that for fin.incial reasons they nv i 1 1 bo unable to engage the services of a Homo Missionary to succeed him." Mt^sis If, Butt'e and W. Totley wcie le-^appointeil Cncuit Stcwuids, and fcJ<iciety btcwaids wcie also appointed foi each of the prn.iching places in r)ie Ciicuit. ft hms deciiled to hold the next meeting" at Paeioa on Wednesday, Apiil3id. The Sunday Schools were all ieport<"l to be improving in attendance and eflieiLMicy. \