WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1889.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889.

The new Wnihon bridge, «t_Wajoronjr O - mni Landing:, i«s now open for. traffic. The ordinary monthly wieetincf of the Pinko County. Coum-il, will be held at Cambridge on next Saturday, at 11 a.m. Tenders close nt 5 p.m. on Friday, for surf ice <liivin£ fifty f<-et, for Uie Ferguson syndicate. Sepadvt. Not\\it'f»taM'lin<^ the wet weatlier. work h pro«rr»"*sin«> wtondily Pt the various liaxinill^ it tliisdf^trift. Quite it itumiier nf hnsinePfi Kites hnve been alrt>.»Hy peirp^d .oftnml jipplierl for at Te Arolui, Kirwe,' the re.luc-iidii of rental liprinne t'en*r;i!!y liimwn. •• • We are in receipt of the )Hol>er number of tl«e IHi'otr»!"«l An-mMm News (N.Z. •pflitiora). the, P'm t ii'ion<;. as ii«ual, are excel Vnt, ft- i"nj'ni» > i.nitfrr r-nrefnllv £e]pr-u>,\, nuil i\>u vO/oJc tuiootl out in good

The Rev Dr Macgregor, of Edmbnrarh, isly ; ngat Warnmmhool seriously indisposed. Hg i"p suffeiing from geneiai prostration, and has been foi bidden to travel. All hi* engagements have been cancelled, and as noon i.shecinhe will return to England. . ' - At the Auckland Board of Education, meeiing on Friday last, the temperance , teaching; in school difficulty was- settled, by its being decided to leave such teaching ns heretofore, to the discretion of the committees. The consideration of the appointment of a fourth inspector was , postponed for a week. j I At the Auckland Supreme Court on t Monday, en the petition of Messrs Clark 1 and Sons, Thos. Well*,, and Cooper, Ipaac ! Bates, saddler, late of Cambridge (present address unknown) was declared a bank • nipt. Work at Mr ConHhard's flaxmill, Te Aroha,has been temporarily interfered with by the engine boiler erivimj way yesterday afternoon. It appears the engine was-Jeft in charge of aTad fora time, who neglected ' to keep the pump gofnsr, ffnojtho water got ■so low that some of the boiler plates got heated to such an extent that they gave way, and will have to be* replacedMt Patton, general manager of the Broken Hill Proprietors Company's mine, arrived: at Te Arnha by train from Auckland yesterday afternoon. MrPatton was met by Messrs HmvelT and' Poage (of the Te A*rolm S^ and G- M- Co.) ; and is stay- ' fng nt the Hot Springs* Hotel. We have been- sbowma BanapTe of flax, I dressed by an entirely new process, the indention of a resident in this district; and by which the whole of the fine fibres are saved", which, by the- ordinary pnocexs, are lost The nample referred to was cleanly dreBB«d? r and we sincerely* hope the new process will realise the most sanguine expectations of the inventori The biggest price ever offered for a racehorse — twenty thousand pounds — has been refused bv Mr Manton (the Duchess of Montrosr) for the filly Ileviera, who beat Semolina, and woa tbe Portland Stakes. A Sydney cablegram, dated' October first, states that: " The weather authorities '. predict an extensive drought, lasting from thf» middle of next year to the end of ;1893:; 1893: 1 We beg to icfcnowledge receipt from the President of the Canterbury Industrial Association-, of a copy of ft report of a ; paper on International Reciprocity recently read before the- Association, and . which 1 contains much information of ' value to all who- take am interest ia that great question .. A meeting of the Te Aroha Cemetery Trustees was held on- Friday afternoon lastin Mr F.Pavitt'i office. Present : Messrs F. Pavitt (chair), J. A. Dobsou, Jas. Laverv, and E. Gallagher^ It wfs resol ved to notify by advertisement that in ' future all" burial fees must be paid in advance, and that aH plots a'ready made use of for burial purposes must be paid for at once. To-night a plain- and fancydress carnival .will beheld in- Ta Aroha Public Hall ; skatintr from half past seven to nine, after which dancing will commence. We und<er- 1 1 stand that great preparations have been ' made for the event, and it is expected to > prove a great snece^s. Many have expresßed tfrefr intention of going in fancy costumes. We have been requested to Rtate that this is not intended as the wind up of the skatincr seanon, and jinking will ' be carried on as heretofore-. Mr James Park, of the Thames School ■ or Mine",, fias bceni requosted by th> Commissioners of the Dunedin Exhibition to ; undertake the work of collecting and for- : warding a suitable exhibit of auriferous quart?! and mineralised" ores from the . Thames- and Ohfnera«ri Goldffeld&, for exhibition fn the Mines Court. In accordance , with this request, Mr P*rk interviewed i several of the local" mine managers at Thames on Friday la*t, to try and" arrtnge for the Thames district being suitably re i presented, and will visit Ohinemuri, in order to make the necessary arrangements to get samples firom that portion of the field; j Mr P.ifrfck McTntyr", the Inspector of Andit for the Auckland Provincial District, will visit Aratapu shortly, when he will complete the case for the Crown against the members of the Hobson County Council, who, it appeaars, are held liable for heavy penalties on the gronnd that they have spput loan money for county purposes other than those allowed by the Act. The action will be broognt in the Supreme Court at Aucklard. The cs.se i» already attracting attention as of great interest tomembersof local bodies. The Marototo Gold 1 an<* SiTver Company have decided upon erecting machinery at once for tbe .treatment of their ores. An excellent machine site has b«en secured by the manager, Mr J. H r Moore, within a quarter of a mile of the mine,, provided with sp'endid water facilities,, the length of the proposed watnr-r-race not exceeding six chains, wnich will' give a fall of 110 I feet. The machinery to b« erected will ' take the form' of grinding pans, probably -of the McKay type, but this is not 'yet definitely settled. At- the mine stoping operations are 'still brnng carried on, and a considerable supply of good payable ore is ■ constantly coming to hind, of which there •' are from 150 tb 200 tons now at the stir ' face. At thp Fnpfpmo Court last week, Mr Cnve moved rp iTnmea Courtney ,.i bankrupt, that the bankrupt be examined aft to -his inability to contribute towards _the p>iy- | ment of his debt's out of his present earnings. Mr Hammond appeared for (ha j bankrupt. Mr Cave stated < th.it the bank- | rnpt was a 1 minor residing at Waiorongo- | mnf. The bankruptcy took place on July | 2nd la<»t, and' the total lfability wns L 59 12s '6d to fifteen creditor*. It was thought that as the debtor was in full, work since the filing be nvight reasonably be asked to contribute nonreili ing towards the discharge of these debts. Tne bankrupt wos then sworn He stated that he was' out of employment, and unable to contribute anything towards payment of his debt?, Wih Honor therefore declined 1 to make any order. "Where, Oh! Where ?"— ln the ftefiident Magistrates' Court at InvercargUl the other dqy a public body had brought nn action to. recover rate", and their representatives proved service of the summons upon the section. '' What is the defendant's present address," inquired Uis Worship. And the collector signifirantly I repTi^d : " [ don't lcnow ; } r our Worship ;

The Knipara limes (Mr F. C. Smithy*! man, proporietnr) hns ceased publication, through lack of sufficient nnppoTt. Amongst the applications deaTt with at the Warden's Court, Thames, onTluusday Infit, were the following r — John Kneehon*», Exchnnge, Tararna, adjourned 17th in^t. ; Wni, Chnppell, occupation license, adjourned 7th November ; D. R. Geilion, water- rare, Tat am. adjourned 17th inst. ; 11. Viclwv, residence site, Kiwangahake, adjourned 17th met, ; J. AT, Thorp, three months' protection for Talisman holding, Puriri, adjourned 17th inst.; Robt.Cannell, i three months' protection for water raep r Tararu, granted ; S, Lowrie, protection for three mouths to woifc Nymph and Mermaid, Tararn, with two men, granted ; Mary C. Savage, residence site, Waihi r ad jb urned 1 7th inst. The first meeting of the rrpwly appointed Te Aroha Public Domain Board was held on Friday afternoon last, in Mr F. Pavitt's office. Present : Messrs F. Pavitt, «F. A. Dobßon. Jns< Lavery,. and K. Gallagher. Mr F. Pavitt was elected Chairman and Secretary, and' Mr Dobson, Treasurer. It ! vas stated by the Chairman that the boundaries, as defined! in the Gazette notifying the appointment of the new Board, did not correspond' with the most recent [ Government survey. The Chairman was requested to communicate with Govern* jment respecting the matter. Th© Board decided to go over th© ground placed nnd'er their charge (about 160 acres, adjoining the Cemetery), in order the better to decide as to the best way of utilising the reserve, whether by letting,, or otherwise. In our leading article on Saturday, referring to the To Aroha Hot Springs 'Domain Board, the words "for advertising ■ purposes" were inadvertently omitted in one paragraph. The mistake was subsequently corrected, but for the informntionof those of our t eadern who received copies worked off prior to the correction being I made, we reprint the pnragraph in its corrected fornv : " But the Board have in the past decided to do other foolish things which, however, the Government very quietly but very plainly told the Board would not be permitted . Such as for instance their decision to lease- the- sole rie:ht to utilise the bath buildings, for advertising purposes, for a period of five years to a local rewdentfor the munificent remuneration (for the whole term), of £12(1) "etc. W# beg to acknowledge recefpt fronv M> H. J. Elliott, Under Secretary of Mines, of a copy each of the following- (I) " Report 'on the Mining Industry of New Zealand, 1889." (2) "Report by the Inspecting Engineer on Mining-Machinery and Treatmentof Orps in Australian Colories and America." Both these works will be found to contain information of great vt»hie to all interested m> our goldfields and in mining* 1 matters generally. The Report on Mining Machinery, etc., is raost profusely illustrated ; and contains reports on the following: Crushing and pnfverining machinery* ore concentrators ; grinding and amalga- ' mating pan^ r Newberry-Vautin chTorinution process r ™ck drills ; steam boilers ► 'pumping machinery ; mineral railways ; Tasmanian tfn mine Broken Hill mine land works r Dry Creek smeTtin? works, Adelaide; dpscription of processes in vogue | in Colorado and Boston ; Professor Roberts-Austen's Roport on- smelting works, Frieberg, Germany ; etc., etc. , The min«* of the- Broken Hill Proprie1 Company, which is turning out such fabulous quantities of silver ore, is paid to be looking better thanjever it did", and private letters received from Adelaide by the last maiT, express n confident belief that the time is not far distant when regular divi- . dends of LWO,OOO every month will be paid" by the Proprietor Company alone, i Mr. Wilson, one of the original ownerß, who •in well known in Auckland, owing to hft pTucKy enterprise in connection with the W-iioromromai mine and plant, has just re- ' tnrned from England to Australia, and is likely to visit New Zealand again at the , beginning of the- year. It is rumoured that some experts who have advised Mr ' Wilson are not altogether satisfied as to the capacity of the mine at Te Aroha to keep upa permanent supply of good payable ore. It was hoped at one time that the speedy development of KarangHhake mines 1 would have offered a steady supply of stone for treatment at Waiorongomaf, so that from the two sources ih© splendid plant erected by Mr Howell for the comp" any would have found full emqloyment. But for some months to come at last this expectation is not likely to bo realised. — Herald. The general manager of the Broken Hill Proprietory Company, Mr Patton, a scientific export who wis engaged m America to proceed to Australia to carry on the great mining nnd smelting works "there, arrived in Auckland by the Mariposn, nnd will proceed to To Aroha, and visit the gold fields 'generally, Mr Patton was engaged in America by Mr W. it. Wilson at n salary of L5OOO per annum, but his services have been of- such immense im-l-portartce and value to the company that his remuneration has been raised to L7COO a-year, and ho has now full 'charsre of the three properties in Ivhich Mr Wilson and his friends are so largely concerned. Mr Pation's visit to this colony is chiefly on account of his health. He will visit Te Aroha, Thames, etc., and spend some time at the Hot Lakes. Mr Patton has been manager of the Broken Hill Company for two year*?, and states the success of | the mines there surpasses hta greatest expectations. — Herald. The September number of the New' Zealand Law reports rontains a report.oi the case Miliei* v. Davy (Registrar-General of Land), heard at the Court of Appeal, Wellington, which is of importance to those who have business with tho La,nd Transfer Office. Through tho negligence of the Land Transfer office at Nnpier, a second certificate of title was issued for a piece of land, tho first certificate being in force. j The party to whom the second certificate | was issued omitted by his agent to ascer- | tain by searching, as he might have done, of the existence of the first certificate This was held to be contributory neslij genoe disentitling the plaintiff to any claim on the assurance fund, and his certificate was called in for cancellation. The Registrar having subsequently discovered the mistake, took no effective steps to rectify it at a timo y.hen he might have saved part of tho loss consequent on tho original mistake, but it was hold that this gave no cause of action as the loss was I caused by the original negligence, of which the plaintiff equally with the Registrar was guilty .