Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 416, 2 November 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' This above all— to thine o\rn self bo brut, And ib must follow as the night the day Thou causfc not then be false to any man. 1 SIIAKtiSPEARU.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1889.

In another column reference is made to the numbers now coining back to New Zealand from Australia, It is very satisfactory to 6nd the tide has turned in this respect ; nn<l there can bo no question many shiploads of New Zealanders who left our shores during the past twelve months or so will find it to their advantage to return. From various parts of the Colony complaints have boen made with resfoct to the scarcity of labourers. Owing to the better prices ruling of late for produce generally, large areas have been put under crop, whilst the prospects for floekmtistersand stockowners are also most encouraging. Recent wool sales have been most satisfactory, and the frozen meat industry is advancing steadily and rapidly. In fact New Zealand with respect to the export of frozen meat has made most extraordinary progress of late. For the first six months of 1889, 550,482 carcases of sheep anil lambs were exported, as against only 11,G1 G cM-cnsesdnringthe same period from the whole of the Australian colonies. Recently sales were reported in the South Island at twenty - one shillings perhundred pounds for bci'f, and shorn sheep are realising over fourteen shillings per head. There is in fact abundant evidence that a good time is in store for Loth the farmer and labourer ; and when they prosper all other classes of the community benefit, and share in their prosperity. One essential to the restoration of permanent prosperity, however, is an influx of colonists of the right stamp. The natural resources and capabilities of New Zealand can scarcely be over estimated, but we must have population in sufficient numbers before they can be turned to the most advantageous account. The debt of the Colony, about which one hcais somuch.and which certainly does weigh somewhat heavily on the present population of the country, would be easily borne were the population double,! ; whilst the large public works that have already been caniod out and occasioned so much of our indebtedness, such as our mil way?, etc., would then prove a much moie important source of levenue. WJirn the gient resources of the Colony arc boine in mind, iis magnificent climate and many natural attractions, it does seem astonishing that a country like New Zoalund, capable of providing comfortable homes for millions instead of thousands, should still contain a population only equal to that of a large city at Home. Were the many And great advantages it offers to the ri^ht class of emigrants moie widely and bcttev known, there can be no question there would be a steady influx of population from all parts to this highly favoured Colony.

Tho ordinary monthly meeting 1 of the Ohinemuii Count)' Council will bo held at Paeioa this afternoon A supplementary mail for tlio United Kingdom, etc. (via San Francisco), will be made up at le Aroha Post Office this (Satuiday) morning. Correspondence may bo posted up to 10.45 a-m. for despatch by this mail. Mr Brain is «*ngaged in making two coal barges for the Waihi Gold Mining Company. The one bar^re will have a capacity of seven tons, and the other of throe and a half. 'ihey are to bo stationed at Bowenton. We have received from the Government Pi inter the bound volume of the statutes of New Zealand for 1889. The volume contains 36 public general Acts, 29 local and personal Acts, and 4 private Acts, as the result of the legislation of last session. Respecting the committal of Mr Robt. Mackie, wo learn that hs the result of his filing a petition to bo adjudged a b mkrupt, on the said petition being forwarded to Auckland by Sir Win, Wasteneys, solicitor for Mr Mackio, ho has been released from prison ; and v.ay be expected homo by train to day. The Australian Insurance and Banking Record sny« :—": — " With rcgaid to the Broken Hill Proprietory Company there is a strong desire that the shares should be again sub-divided. The production of the mine is increasing, and it h expected that larger dividends wil be paid." In the recent libel action, Mynott v. the Tnranaki Herald, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff j damages £20. The public, immediately after the judgment was delivered, subscribed the wholo amount of the damages and costs payable, and tendered the same to the propi ietor, Mr Wefeton, with waim expiessions of sympathy. With reference to the case Geo. Edgecumbe (manager Wniknto Times) v. Robert Mackie- — judgment summons for amount due for newspapers supplied and costs, etc., total £10 2s, heard in Te Aroha Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday last, and reported in our Wednesday's issue — it will be remembered the R.W. made an order that the amount be paid forthwith, or in default tvvoinonth's imprisonment. Mackie not paying the money was conveyed to Auckland gaol by Tuesday morning's train. It is stated that he riled a petition to. be adjudged a bankrupt after the order was made by the Court, Mr 11. A, Goidon, lnspecting Engineer, Mines Department, accompanied by Mr Geo. Wilbon, Mining Inspector, left Thames on Wednesday last for Coromandel, bub had only proceeded as far as Ttipu, when Mr Gordon received an urgent telegram instiucting him to at once proceed to Hokitika to meet the Minister of Mines there. Ho therefore returned to Thames, rode up to To Aiol-a Thmaday night, and proceeded to Auckland by train yesterd.ty mornings

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Te Arolm Hot Springs Domain Board will be held this evening. We are in receipt of a circular letter by Mr James 0. Wilson (bearing Pulmeraton N, post mark), addressed to the various Education Boards of the Colony, with reference to proposed alterations in the scholastic syllabus. The Te Aroha Post Office will bo closed on Monday, the 11th l\ov,, instead of Saturday, the 9th. (Prince of WaW Birthday), ai formerly notified. Miils ÜBually despatched on Monday will close on Saturday, 9th, at 8 p.ui, A quantity of general and mineral exhibits were shipped from Auckland for Dunedin, by the a.s. Mararoaon Thursday. Mining specimens were sent from a. number of Thames mines; also from the New Find, Fergusons Syndicate, Champion, Rua kaka, Crown, Marototo, etc. The monthly meeting of Te Aroha School Committee will be held on next Monday evening, 4th mat., in the school house at half-past seven. Members of the committee who had the management of th c ' last ann ml school fete at Te Aroha are requested to meet at the school house on that evening, at seven o'clock, to arrange for the final settlement of accounts. The last Gazette notifios that Government have permanently reserved ns endow ments for primary education tho following amongst other lands* — Te Aroha Survey Distiict : Section 15, Block XT, 216 acres, 20 porches : Section 20, Block XI, 25 acres, 23 perches'; Section 21, Block XII, 65 acres ; Section 62, Block XII, IG2 acres. The law makes provision that the minute books of all public bodies can bo aeen dining office houis by those entitled, and without any charge. Thus tho minute books of county councils, boroughs, town boards, and road boards, may be inspected by any ratepayer or creditor. The minute book of companies, too, is open to the inspection of nny shareholder ; while tho register of members in a company is entitled to bo scon free by nny member, anil by any other person on the payment of a sum not exceeding one shilling. At the last meeting of the vestry of St. George's Church, Thames, Rev Dr Hooper j having declined the call that was made to him by tho congregation, it was decided to ask the Rev Dr O'Oallaghan, of tho Epiphany Church, Auckland, to accept the pastorship of the Church, and a letter was accoidingly forwarded to tho Bishop st-it-ing that it wub the wish of the Vestry that he should appoint the Rev DrO'Callaglmn to the charge of St. George's. A reply has been received stiting that Dr O'Callaghan has Magnified his willingness to accept the call, and that he purposes entering on his now duties on Sunday, November 17tl.. — Thames btar. It is now quite apparent that the exodus of population from this colony, of which so much has been heard for some time past, is practically at an end, and tint, a<? a matter of fact, the tide has turned. It is <i very significant fact that the steamer Murarou, which arrived from Sydney this week, bionjiht between 85 and 90 pissengers, while the Te AnftU left for Sydney la^t Tuesday evening", taking only 50 pissengers, of whom only twenty-four were steorage. The Ilauroto, which left *Ve!lington for Sydney, also had comparatively few passengers, while the incoming boats to tha south have been cro vded. A New Z.jalander writing from Sydney to a friend in Auckland states that if the people are leaving Now Zealand, it is at the same time an unquestionable fact that they are also leaving Sydney in large numbers, every steamer being crowded. Isaiah Williams, writing from Johannesburg, Transvaal, on August 29, to the editor of the Town and Country Journal, said — " I shall bo thankful if you will publish these few worda from one who lived many years in Australia, and, alter running from one goldfield, then to another, has diifted to South Africa. Very few Europeans are employed on the fields — only about ten to every 200 or 300 blacks. There are no public works, and there is no place to which a digger can go to get loz of gold, as he could on many alluvial fields in Australia. There are hundreds of good miners hero without money, who do not know what to do, and would gladly got away if they could. The fields are not as they are represented in the nowspnpers ; and the best advice I can give to those who are thinking of coming is to stay at home." I am pleased to note (writes|' AogloAustralian,' in the ' European Mail), that the weekly organ of the London corn trade has an editorial setting forth the amount of Jpnd in New Zealand available for cereals, and taking taking car© to point out that 20, 000, 000 acies now covered with forests, may be converted eventually into rich arable land. To those who know and watch the course of the great English grain trade there is special significance in this editorial, for it evinces how the thought of corn factors here are turning to the Austral Woild for future assured supplies of wheat, and it indicates very plainly how, before long, if only Austral Agriculturists are wise and careful of opportunities, the foundation may be lai.l of an enormousand indefinitely »«cpansive grain trade between England and Australasia. Mr Patton, manager of the Broken Eill Proprietory mine, who has been staying at Te Arolm for the past week or two, purposes returning to Auckland on Monday, next, thorn to await tho anival of the next inward 'Frisco mail steamer, due in Auckland on Saturday next, and intends returning to Sydney by that boat, . Mr Palton informs us he has much enjjyed and benefitted in health by his visit to New Zealand, and is pleased with both the country and climate, so far as he has had opportunity of forming an opinion during his short stay of a few weaks in the Colony. Mr Patloo appears to be favourably impressed with Waiorongom.ai as a field for mining operations on a largo scale, apd states ho has seen few places better adapted naturaljy for working the reefs adyantageously. IJe also speuks in high terms of the very extensive, and most admirably arranged reduction works evected under Mr Howells supervision. Mr "l J a(,ton, however, does not wish to express any decided opinion respecting the mines ; not having gone much into tlte subject." As he states, his visit to New Zealand was entirely as a holiday, for change, a.ndrest ;and his visit toTe Aroha and Waiarongotrai was in no sense official, Still it is gratifying to know he has been favourably impressed with the capabilities of the lield as u mining district from what he has seen,