WAIORONGOMAI. [From our own Correspondent.] Waiorongomai, Wednesday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 2

WAIORONGOMAI. [From our own Correspondent.] Waiorongomai, Wednesday.

A fiiie was started for the first time in the leverberatory roaster yesterday, for the purpose of drying the brick work. Mr H. H. Adams having purchased the property known as '' Carrs" for £500, takes possession at the end of the present month. I have been given to understand that Mr Adams, has been employed by an Auckland syndicate, to report on the various goldfielda in the Coromandel peninsula. A party of natives recently succeeded in obtaining abonfc one ton of gum in this district in the course of a few days. Mr Edmund George was the successful tenderer for driving 70 to 100 feet in the 450 feet level of the New Find mine Price £1 9s 9d per foot. Mr Roberts (butcher of this town) has been greatly annoyed lately by do^s worrying his sheep. The dogs were caught in the act on Monday last and destroyed. The Mail Service : Mr Coney, Chief Postmaster for Thames District, has | sent the following reply to the petition from a large number of Waiorongomai residents, requesting that the time of closing the mails at Waiorongomai on Tuesdays, Thut slays, and Saturdays, be altered from 7 a.m. to 6 a.m., so that i the WaioroMcromni mail may be dp<3- [ patched in time to go on with the Te Aroha mail, to catch the train at Morrinsville on tho^e days. : j "I beg to acknowledge receipt of your Memo., dated 14th inst, enclosinga petition From certain residents at Waioronwomai. asking that the time of closing mails at that place for Waikato, Auckland, &c, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, may be altered from 7 a.m. to G a.m. Would you please note and inform the signatories tlmfc the petition has been forwarded to the Head Office with my recommendation that it be granted." Thursday evening. A fire, started in the scrub a little distance from the township someda^s ago, has been causing considerable anxiety. The origin of the fire doe 3 not appear to be very clearly known; although several assertions have been ! made with respect thereto. One thing is certain the originator well deserves most severe punishment, thousands of pounds wonh of property having bpen more or less en langere I thereby. During the past two or three days the fire has been raging alouur the face of the hill, uncomfortably near the Battery, and on Tueslav evening last it was obseivud to be in Hose proximity to the trestle-work that Pupprrl« the latpfe tunic at the termination of the Company s water- race, A number of the Co.'s employees wpre'ut o'ice despatched to the scene, and after some hard battling succeeded in proven! ing it." further progiess in that diiection. The fire is now travelling southwards, and a number of the Co.'s men me continually on the watch, night and day, to prevent any damage to the trestle work along the water-race. As I write the fire is blazing away near Mr John Goldsworthy's place, but I should judge it is now gone pa^t the point of danger. Waioiongomai CricAet Club : A challenge having been received from the Paeroa Cricket Club, offering to play the Waiorongomai Club on their ground on Anniversary Day, 29th inst., n meet ing of the local Club was held la*t evening ar> the Waioron omai Hotel to consider the matte' 1 , when it was resolved that the challenge bo accepted ; and the secretary was instructed to rotify accordingly. The players chosen to represent Wainrongom.ii are as follows : Messrs Graham, Young, Carpenter, Hogan, NTesbit, Newman, Maisev, Hunt, Pavitt, Jamieson, Ellery, and Beeson. It wa« also lesolved that a luncheon bo i>iven to the visiting team on the q round. Scarcity of Water : Water is now very in the township, many oF the well** ;uv poil'ivlly <)ry, nn>l tli« hotels are 01i1i0,.,; ti> cart it, i'lom the Waioiongomai cicek. TV H:iy-, >io scorching hob, but the iiioriuiii»s and evening are beautifully JilcUSil'llt,