Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 386, 20 July 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This aboVe all — to thine own self bo tru*, And it must follow as the night the day Thou cauet not then be false to any man.' Shakespeare.

SATURDAY, JULY 20. 1889.

11)p Board of Education have appointed Miss Ellery to Te Aroha West. A special meeting of tho Te Aroha School Committee will be held on Monday evening next, at half-past Bcven. There will be a sitting of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Oourta at Te Aroha on Tuesday next ; and of tho Resident Magistrate's Court at Paeroa on Monday next. We are very pleased to know that our respected fellow townsman, Mr F. Pavitt, Ins received his diploma as an 'Authorised Surveyor' from the Surveyor General. The petition to have Te Aroha and Waiorongomai (including the goldfield and County tramway), constituted a Borough, has been taken round Te Aroha for signature during tho past couple of days. A meeting of the Paeroa Band of Hope was held on last Tuesday evening, the Rev T. A. Norrie presiding. The meet intr was largely attendpd and an interesting programme was submitted. A mail for the United Kingdom, etc., per direct steamer Doric, from Wellington, 25th inwt,, will close at Post Office, Te Aroha, on Monday next, 22nd inst. For money orders, registered lettors, and parcels to-day (Saturday), at 4 p.m. We are ieq nested to intimate that Rev Mr Evans will conduct divine service at Shaftesbury next Sunday afternoon, and Rev S. Liuvry on the following- Sunday, an exchange to (hi 5 ? effect having been ni ranged. Al^o Rev Mr Evans will go to Waitoa on the 28th inst, instead of 21st. The following tenders were received by the Morrinevillo School Committee for lining the school room .• Lewis Warren, £12 10s; JaR. Lavery, £H 2s; Win. Hogiin, £9. The Board of Education have authoiised the Committee to accept the l lowest tender, tlmt of W. Hogan, in lerms of grant voted by the Board. Mr A. W. Edwards ii now holding a special cheap clearing sale, and is offering , wonderful value in all department*, both in the di apery, etc., and also in the boot store. Intending pnrchasers will do woll to call early and inspect the bargains. At the sitting of the Warden's Court Thames, on Thursday, protection was granted Mr R. Clement*, to work the Imperial mine, Karangahake, with two men for three months. Notice of dissolution of partnership is advertisod by Mesßrs Smith and Don. The business of the Hot Springs Hotel will in future be conducted by Mr A. A. Smith. At Te Aroha some of the Borough agitators deny that it was stated at Waiorongomai on Saturday night there were to j be two wards, so that Waiorongom&i j would have the expending of its own j revenue. We understand as a matter of fact there is nothing about two wai'ds in j the petition. • \ Mr James Craig, auctioneer, reports the sale of the leasehold know as the " Hori More" Block, adjoining the Te Aroha township, on either Hide of the Te ArohaWaioiongomai main rood (about3oo acres) to Messrs 11. 11. Adams and T. Gavin; both of whom now reside on portions of this Block, previously disposed of. Mr F. Pavitt received the following tenders on Thursday, for works to be carried out in this district by Piako County Council : Formation and gravelling of footpaths, Grey street, Waiorongomai :—: — Murray, £13; W. Thomson, £12 I9s ; McMannerim, £12 19s ; C. Campbell, £11 18s ; — Powell (accepted), £10 10s. Supplying and breaking 100 yards metal on main Te Aroha- Waiorongomai road : — P. Dillon, per yard, 7s 8d ; R. Michael, 7s 3d ; J. Robinson, 7s ; W- Thomson, 6s lOd ; W. Iletherington, 6s 9d ; McMannerim (accepted), 6s 3d, Mr P. Molntyre, of the Audit Department, Wellington, is still engaged in overhauling the various account - books, vouchers, etc., of the Thames Borough Council and Harbour Board for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of F. C. Dean's defalcations. Scarcely a day passes but f-omething new i« discovered, and the total sum appropriated is now stated to be nearly £2000. On Thursday Mr Mclntyre, acting under the instructions of Mr Hudson Williamson, Crown Prosecutor, laid twelve more informations against Dean, embracing all descriptions of fraud, which makes a total of fifteen charges to be brought against him in case he is captured and brought back, By advertisement, Mr D, H. Bayidon, Surveyor, Thames, notifies that during his absence in England, business wiil be conducted on his behalf by Mr J. Dreyer ; who has access to all his plans, etc,, in connection with the goldfield. Overheard in Whitaker street, Te Aroha, Stout party to old resident: Please sign this petition for a Borough, Sir ; I'll see that the rates are promptly paid, Old resident ; What about the ' overflow ' old man ?

The Irishmen of Melbourne are content- < p'atingsthrtinsr a newspnperin the interests of Home Rule for Ireland, whereupon " Atticus," in the Lender, remarks :—": — " It will bo a great day for Ireland — to say nothing of Australia — when Mr David Gaunaon'i new daily organ is started. If enthusiasm is all that is needed for founding" a paper the success of the venture is secured. There was not one of the 20 or 30 gentlemen who mot, to talk over ways and means who were not prepared to enter into a bond to take the papor for twelve months, and with suoh a bucking as that there is nothing to prevent the Home Ruler being started next week. As an illustration of the length to which people will go when principle is at stake, I have much pleasure in giving prominence to the munificent offer of one of Mr Gaun^on'a supporters. •' lam meeelf prepared," said he, ** to tako and pay for three copies a week of the Home Ruler; I will keep one fonneaolf and the f amilee, and I'll circulate the other two through the length and breadth of the coloniee." When such a spirit, as this is abroad, we. may look for the first numbers df^bo Home Rulei; before the month ifl oveK