Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 376, 12 June 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889

' This above all — to thine own self bo true, And it must follow aa tho night the day Thou canet not then be false to any man. 1 SIIAKKSrEAKB.

A ton of qunrta from the \\ erahiko licensed, holding, -Waiorons-omai, wasroccntly taken down by Alt Hugh McLivei (one of the proprietor of the mine) to tho Thames, for troa'mont at the School of Mines plant. The return was s<^s ISclwtß. incited gold In the absence of Mr Noithcvoft no Waiden's Conrt was held at Te Aroha yesterday. There uoro thioo civil eases set down for hearing, and ns in two of the cases some of those who wore to give evidence had conic long distances (one from "Whntnwluia, fiuollier from Piiclnnond) the Re-ident Magistrate's Court wasadjiMimod, liist till 10.30 a m., and then till 2 p.m , in order that the cases mi»ht ho hcai d by local Justices. Tho services oi on'y one J. P. however (Mi Ilott), were obtainable to sit at two o'clock, and two Justices being necessary to hear tl.c ca«cs. iho Conit was «!»nir adjoin ned till 7 p. mi., when Mossis Pc-bson and Hunt, J'p.P , pi elided. The Com t sat till 10.15 p.m. A full repoit wiM a pun in cuv noxti^bue, Tenders aie invited by Pinko County Council foi filling gttlljs, makine. footpnth=i, and filling in annroachos to now bridge at Waiojongomai Landing. As will be seen by adveitineniotit, tomotrow at 10.30 a.p\., tho \V<nden will sell at the Wanlcn's Com t, Tlininof, the rii^ht to oc- upy the forfeited licen ed holding at OA'haroa, known as the " M', and Rowe." Cost oC rioducine; Fla\— Accoulin^ to an expei t in the Kan^itikei Advocate, the cost of producing (1 »x per ton some IS ye.us a^o at the mill mouth w.is not If-- 0 than £17 per ton. Since then mill machinery Ikks be"n so impioved, and methods so Mmplifi'nl, tint good l\\> c on be produced to day at ;i co^t of LlO per ton, or even le-s. As fieit«ht b\ lail ard s<>n is mu'li less, and fieight, in finance, exthinsr»s and London ch.ng<s ,ue all leduced, it is possible for a o-ood concern to sell at very low rates in London andsiill yield a h.m Uome profit. At tho month 11 } 1 Micetins: of tho Thames County Count-il held on Wednesday last, >i communication was read from tho Mines Depaitincnt in reply to the specifications f oi wauled by the County Cngineei, statins tint tho Minister of Minos could not oppiove of the proposed real to Maiototn behi-c con^tMutod .it t!.^ ino-ont time, as it was nut so intently requiied as oLher. ro.ids .in. tJ>^.,pi\ini>my;A.. Jj.'jMwJv: Ohinenni'i Odi^o fiom Knunq \huke to the Ik'dm cro^^inir h.ul bwi-n iiuthoiised, aud Inis won'd be about .ill the available mono}.. It w.ih decided to conununicate with the Minister of Mines pointing out that in a prev'ous letter he h.ul pnunihed the L5OO for tho M.irototo load. — Th.une:> Star.