Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 428, 14 December 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

• This abort all — to thine own self bo brq#, And it must follow as the nighfc the day Thou cauel not then be false to any mv.' Shakkspbare.

SATURDAY, DEO3MRER 14, 1889,

The post office at Quartz ville has been closed. The ordinary monthly meetinar of Te Aroha Town Board will beheld this evening. j A special sermon to younaj raen wiU be preached by Rev S. Lawry, to-morrow evening, in the Wesleyan Church, Te Aioha. Fui ther returns of ore from the Imperial Treasury mine, Tiirnni, published in our columns to-day, show that the proprietors possess some stone of very rich quality. Owing to pressure of Rdveilisem9nts, etc., we are compelled to hold over leading article and h large amount of interesting matter until our next issue. Pae>oa Public School broke up for (he Chi fatmas holidays yesterday. The school will re-open on January 20th, and the annuii' school treat will be held on ,the same date. The Australian Mining Standard Cor November 27th, conliins a long report on the Te Aroha Silver and Gold Mining Company's reduction works at Waiorongom v', same us appeared in our issue of Nu\eniL»ei 9lli. The adjourned meeting of sett'eis re the establishment of a creamery, will be he'd in Waihou Public H.ill this evening. It is to be hoped the settlers will attend in large number*, as the inatler is one of much importance to them generally A special meeting of the Te Ar >ha School Committee will be held next Monday evening at the close of the meeting of" the Fete Committee. Business : To consider a communication from the Board of Education, re repairs to the teachers lesidence. We diiect the attention of all our readers who are interested in the flax indn.stiy, to a most inteivstirn? article which we publish on our lourth page to-day, under the heading New Zealand Hemp. Mr Chos. Rhodes, assayor, and agent of the Paeioa bianch of Bank N.Z., h.is obtained leave 01 absence for a fortnight, We believe for the purpose of joining the Mining Inspector, Mr Geo. Wilson, who is now at Puhipuhi investigating with respect to the lecent ' find ' there of silvei bearing ore. We learn that Mr D. Whitbwrn, of Morrinsville, has applied for a patent for an improvement in the construction of all tubular keys, to be styled, " Whitburn'a Patent Tubular Key." M.' W. J. Dalton, C.E.. Auckland, is acting as Mr Whitburn's agent in this mallei . New advertisements from Mr C. W. Goodson (of the London Arcade and Montague's Bazaar, Auckland), will appeal in our next issue. Mr aoodson has recently lelurned from England and the Continent, and has just opened up large shipments of the choicest novelties, personally selected by him nt the Paiis Exhibition, etc. Look out for his new advertisements in Wednesday's News. The surve3' of the greater portion of the great Piako block — that belonging to the Ngatipaoa tribe— is being pushed rapidly forwaid, and will be ready for the Land Court, which has been summoned for the s*h of May next. The lands of the Ngatimaau and Nagtitamatara — forming the minor portion of the block — have not been arranged for ;but out of 45,000 acres contained in the portion surveyed, signitures have been got for all bat about 800 acres. At the last monthly meeting of Tanran ga County Council, Cr Killen brought before the Council the question of the recrection of a bridge at Waihi, stating Ohinemuri County Council would not erect it, although the subsidy was £1 for £1. Ho would propose that the Chairman write to Government asking them to erect the bridge, as the crossing was dangerous in a flood. Seconded by Cr Macmillan ; and cairiecl. — The Chairman stated that he had written to Mr Kelly, M.H.R, about the Waihi bridge. The Sydney Daily Telegraph refers as to]lows to Mr John Farrel!, now on a visit at Te Aroha. "A number of tingle taxers assembled at the league rooms, 169 Phillip street, to give a hearty sendoff to Mr John Fan ell, editor of the single tax paper, the Australian Standard, who is proceeding to New Zea land for the double purpose of making arrangements there lor the approaching visitof Henry George, and of recruiting his own health. Mr Farrell bears credentials from the Government of this colony to the ' Government of NewZeeland, introductions to the Premier, Sir George Grey, and a number of other leading citizens, a circular letter from the {Single Tax League to it« friends in the sister colony and an authority from the Henry George Campaign "executive to act on its behalf."

The Illustrated Australian News (N.Z. edition), for December, will bo fornd ver3 entertaining, containing a large num- j her of well executed illustrations, interesting reading matter, and also n large double sheet piece oC piano forte music, " Rosabelle." Amongpt the visitors now at Te Aroba, is Mr J. Farrell, a well-known Australian journalist, who purposes spending some weeks amongst us,investi°:ating the nature, extent, and value of the Te Arolm thermal springs ; and generally with respect to the natural features and resources of the distiict. Mr Fairell informs us that, so far as he has been able to form an opinion during the short time since his arrival at Te Avoha, that ho is very favourably impressed with the great value of its hot springs- We are much gratified to know this, and ure sure the longer he remains at Te Aroba and t^ie more lie investigates, the better pleased be will be ; and trust that by moans of his facile pen, and the influential Au^* tralian journals he represents, be will do much to make known the remarkable curative properties of the Te Aroha mineral waters, and the natural advantages of the distiict generally. The Wellington Evening Press, of 6th inst., refers to Mr Farrell 's visit to New Zealand as folio wa : " Mr John Farrell, one of tho best known of Australian journalists, is at present engaged in touring this colony or behalf of the "Daily Telegragh," " Bulleiin," and other prominent Sydney papers. Mr Farrell is perhaps best known as the author of a volumn of verse, which bears the title of one of the most popular of his poems — " How he Died" — upon which Mr Baddon Chambers appears to have founded his story of u The Ne'-er-do-well " The volume has met with such a favourable reception that a new edition is shortly to be issued in London. Mr Farrell, among other things, is an authority — the Aus tralian authority, in fact — on the single ta*i, and is in regular enrmnunication with Mr Henry George. After a short stay in Wellington Mr Fnrrell proceeds to Auckland and to the Hot Lakes Dinliict."