Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 401, 11 September 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' Thig abore all — to thine own self bo true, And ib naaab follow &■ the night the day Thou canefc hot then be false bo any man.' Shakkspeark.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, TBR9

A meeting of the Te Aroha Band of Hope will tajce place on next Monday evening. The ordinary monthly meeting of Piako County Council will be held at Cambridge on Saturday next. The Fancy Dress Skating Carnival at Waiorongomai to-night promises to be a great succes". The ordinary montnly meeting of Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain Board was .adjourned on Saturday last to Saturday, I4tb, a quorum not being present. Lam i»ing,is well advanced in this district. On the Lockerbie estate, Morrin s^ville, there are now about 4000 lambs ; at Annandnle, Piako, about 800. The contractors for draining extension on the Lockerbie, estate, are making good progress. We understand it- is intended to sow. about 1000 acres of turnips on the estate this season. This evening, at half-past seven, Rev S. L.iwry will deliver a lecture in the Te Aroha Wesleyan Church on Mai tin Luther. The Mihjuc't is one of the greatest interest, i» sure to be dealt with in an able manner by i he Hey lecturer, and we have no doubt t)u >c vfi\l be a large ulteuduuce*

Mr Jas. Craig yesterday sold the Weiahiko License^ Holding for L 250, to <MrMitchel.son ; of: Auckland. !Xh& -ordinary monthly meeting of Ohinemuri County Council, which should have been held on Saturday hist, was adjourned till Saturday next. Oww.g to the jm« clemency of the weather there was only a biijre quorum present, and us the business to be transacted a\«s import.-iet, it was (jLecided to adj-min for u week. The football match, Te Aroha-Waio-rongoumi v. I'.imtley, pl.iyed at Hamilton on Saturday ),ti\t, resulted in an easy victoiy for our lhcil team, who seoied II as against f for Huiitle-y. Te Arolri boinc t>y,b jnon ihnrt, then number was made good by the Huh-titntii'ii of two Hamilton mbn, Measis P-acoek and Morgan. Mr Johnston, of Messrs Can*, Johnston and Co., flax meroh mts, etc-, of Fort Street, Aufk!«ti»l., armed at To Aroha on Saturday In^t. in c miiivtion with tho flax industiy, »nd left on tlio return journey to Anckhin ! l\v tlii*- mornings ttain. Wiundetsthnd th.it Mr tlohnston has entered inlo a cojitracl with Messrs Adams and Coulthaui, of Te Ar.'ha, and Gibbons, of Paeroa, to taki- tin* piincipal p.irt of thoir output of flax during the next throe or four months. r l he price pnid per ton on delivery at Auckland, is, we hear, such uf will lt-ave un excellent margin foj* profit to the mill o\\ vit s - At the* Warden's Court, ThanioH, last Thurwlur, in the case of John Smyth v. Alex UpthnnU and others, an application for tWfoifure of the Victory Licbnsed Holding, at Waihl, on tho giound of non-wprlving. — Jmnos Smith dt'pns-d that he is a iiiiner employed af the Martha Extended, situated at Wnihi, which is slro known as the Victory. He w.is applyjng for forfeiture pf the Vict<My for nonworking. Had been over the ground frequently. No work or prospecting has been done for \he last seren veaiis, I3y Mr Miller: The adjoining claim was also called the Victory. Tho case cajnV before the Court last Warden's Court day, antf it whs' decided that they -should cut it out of the license. It had not yet been done. The claim was f off cited about spven years ago. — William Hollis deposed, he had been manager of 'the Martha Extended for the past six mouths. Had been over the Victory ground constantly during that peiiud, and fhere has neyerbeen any work or prospecting don*. — By His Worship: No work could have been done on the mine without witness knowing it. — George Harvey deposed that he wps a miner employed in the Martha. Had. bgenover the Victory ground two or three times 9 week for the last six years, and never saw any sign of worV dono in the mine. — Daniel Campbell also gave ovideuce to the effect that no work had been done in the clajm for the last seven .years. — This closed the case for plaintiff. — Alex, Uuthank deposed, I am ono of the shareholders in the Victory claim, I took it up with the intcntiop of having its amalgamated with the Ens-ign. It was registered on the 23rd May, The notice of registration and markout were 9osted on the ground. I have broken out stone and had it crushe.d. I have also prospected the grqhnd. — Tlu'r closed the ense 1 for the defendant. — His Worship 'jijipnoud a fine of X; 2 on tho defendant and costs LIS Hs.-^— Thames Ad verier.