Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 371, 25 May 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This above all — to thine own self bo true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou caaafc nob then be false to any man.' SIIAKKSI'EARK.

SATURDAY, MAY 25, TBB9

Yesteiday being a close holiday at the post and telegraph office, will account for our going to press without our usual batch of latest telegrams and other news. There will be a sitting of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Court at Te Aroha on Tuesday next. The ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in the Colonist G. M. Co. will be held at the Company's office, Auckland, on Wednesday next at half past thiee. Waiorongomai Skating Rink lias now a good number of members, who meet evenWednesday evening from seven till ten. Mr F. Pavittim ifces tenders for building u five room house. See advt. Mr J. McNicol bus decided to lemove Ins office from Cambri li?o to Hamilton as being more cential anil convenient for his business. j "The Waihi G. M. Co. invite tenders} for building a large furnace house. See advt. A migic lantern en^eitninment, in connection with the newly foimed Band of Hope, was given at To Aiolm West last evening by Mr Lovell. There was a good attendance on the occasion. Mr Thaxter, contractor under Wuiton Road Board for forming the road from the new biHge at Murphy's Landing, to junction with the present Stanley load, neai Te AruLa West school house, is making good progress with the work in hnnd, which will probably be completed in about a fortnight. The- Waitoa Road Board are also now having improvements carried out on the road uinning through the M.iungakawa Native Settlement. Mr J. A. Iloffue, editor of the " Sydney Evening News,'' who, m stated in our last issue, arrived at Te Aroha on Tuesday on n visit of inspection to the -To At aha S. and G.M, Co. 'a reduction work?, the thetmal springs, etc., left again for Auckland by train yesterday morning, and returns to Sydney by the Alameda. Mr lloguc thoroughly enjoj r ed his vtait, was most favourably impressed with the impoitance and extent of the natuiul resources of this district, and believes Te Aroha has a bright future befoie it, both as a health resort, and as nn important mining centie. In anotln r column we publish a letter received fjom Mr Hogue, in which he briefly records bis opinions with respect to these matters. At a meeting of the Vestry of St. George 'B Chinch, Thames, held on Tuesday evening last, a letter was read from the Rev J?. G. Evans, dated from Te Aroha, stating thnt he had been compelled to place his resignation of the incumbency of St. George's in the hands of tha Bishop, lie had beeu forced to take this step through the advice of his medical attendants who had told him that he could not remain at the Thames without very BeriouKly endangering his health, but in doing so he felt the deepest sorrow at having to sever his connection with the chinch <\m\ the people, among whom lie had laboured for over five years. The Vestry unanimously expressed much regiet at losing the services of one who had been so zealous and faithful in the discharge of his duties as the Incumbent of St. Geoigo'e, It was Ktnted thai in a private letter also received from Hcv Tfr* Evans, he said he would return to the Thames on the Ist Jilne, and would officiate as usual the whole of that month, and in the meanwhile the Vestry wort! 1 probably hear from the Bishop regaiding tlie appointment of his successor.— Thames Star, Major Dane, lecturing on New Zealand to a Tasmauian audience, said tha^i what this colony wants is for her yoiittg^men to take off their co.ats and settle down to real hard work. Her despised lands — tracts of country which in the opinion of the Mnorilunders are of no us« — nro, he says, far in advance of the land which No\ ia Scotians have brought into a state of, wondrous fertility. The people of the colony, he puinted out, cling to lmni« instead of going out in the countiy »mil developing it, Their idea-se^ms to ha'\ e been to go "shop ping," and as a con -sequence the smaller towns are in many instances yoais alidad of tbtitiine. The uiaunrr in which £he public lands have been alienated, andsare now in the hands of syndicates am) wool kings, he deprecated, and expressed ,'the opinijm that in time this evil would produce its own remedy. The credit system of the ! Colony, he said, must soon come to an end, and indeed was abeady reaching a strain on its tether, if commercial matters were to be put on a sound base. A similar state of affairs had existed in America until 1873, when with the abolition of the credit system came their present satisfactory condition.- This must come in New Zealand* and the sooner it was recogniseji and acted uj-ou the better.

As will be seen by advertisement a valedictory sociul to MrM. Lovell wi'l beheld in Waiorongomai Public Hull on next Monday evening. During- Inn residence at Waiolongoniai, Mr Lovell has actively identified himself with the temperance movement, cJunday School work, and other good causes, gone to no end of trouble in getting up enteitainments, etc., and in fact proved himself generally a most useful member of tho community, and a most obliging public officer. He will bo much missed at Wiiiorongomai. He leave-, for Thames on Wednesday next, and will carry with him hearty good wishes for his prosperity in his new sphere of labour. Wo have no doubt u large number will come together on Monday evening to the valedictoiy Bociul to be accorded him.