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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 436, 11 January 1890, Page 2

The monthly meeting of Piako County Council will be held at Cambridge on Saturday next, 18th inst., at 11 a.m. The Wesleyan and Presbyterian services to be held in this district lo ? morrow will be found duly advertised as usual. Win. Fagan, storekeeper and contractor, of Hikutaia, has filed his schedule.—Herald. Tenders are invited for harvesting about sixty acres of oats on the Annandale estate, Piako. See advt. The ordinary monthly meeting of Ol.inemuri County Council will be held at the Council Chambers, Paeroa, this afternoon at three o’clock. We learn with regret that Mr Alf Bine,-., who for some years past has bo efficiently discharged the duiies of station master at Te Arolia, has resigned. Mr Bluck was a most obliging and painstaking public officer, and l:is resignation will be generally regretted by local residents.' A London cablegram states that Mr Matthew Dawson, who in tiainingthe Hon. James White’s colts Karelian and Kirkham, declares that the first-named is equal to the best of the Derby colts. Narellan was got by Chester from Princess Maud, Mr John Howell, late Manager of the Te Arolia S. and G. Mining Company's works, Wuiorongomai and who since his return to Australia was appointed manager of the British Broken Hill Proprietary Company; lias in addition also just been appointed Acting-Manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, during eight months leave of absence granted the Manager, Mr Patton, who purposes visiting America and Europe. Mr Patton has not been in good health for some time.

Te Arolia Hoi Springs Domain Board invite tenders for the sole right of advertising on the back of the bath tickets issued by the Board for the current year. This form of advertisement should prove veiy valuable to enterprising business fiimsand others, bringing di-ectly under the notice of visitors and bathers generally the information sought to be thus made known, and seeing that for the two years ending 31st March last, the Board’s books record good competition for the right. See advt.

At the special meeting of shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand, held in Auckland on Thursday last, for the purpose of considering the desirability of removing the head office and general management of the Bank to London, but little discussion took place ; the following resolution (proposed by the Chairman, and seconded by Major Geor & e) being carried unanimously :—“ That the Head Office and general management of the Bunk be removed to London, and that the directors t ike sueli steps as they may think fit to remove the same accordingly.” The men and boys employed by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company number 2,300; £12,000 per week being paid in wages. No less than five trains run daily in connection with this Company. 1.3 machinery and works are valued at about £250,000. The mineral lands held by the Company consist of three forty acre blocks (Nos. 11, 12, 13), all of which are being worked. The lode is widest in Block 11 where it is proved over two hundred feet wide, the whole width being highly payable. Within a radius of two miiesof Broken Hill township no less than nine mining Companies are at work. At the Warden’s Court, Thames, on Thursday, the following applications were granted : John Bice, Norfolk Extended licensed holding ; H, C. Savage, residence site, Wai’ni ; Robert Clements, residence site, Karangabnke ; Wm. Littlejohn, residence site, Karangaliake ; James Darrow, tramway, Tararu; Tlios. Doherty, residence site, Karangaliake ; Alfred Shepherd, occupation licence, Karangahake. Adjourned to 23rd inst: E. K. Cooper, Joker licensed holding ; Carroll Nash, agricultural lease; John Kneebone, residence site. Adjourned to Gth February : E. J. Thorp, occupation license ; John Bice, residence Bite , 11. J. McKenzie', residence site. The Silver King licensed holding, Whaogainata (Arckilaus Thomas) was cancelled.

Mr Hugh McLiver, late of Waiorongomai, (where he was for a number of years manager of the New Find and other mines), has embarked in the flax business in conjunction with" Mr Finlay. Messrs Finlay and McLiver, have made arrangements with Mr T Kilgour, whereby they lease the freehold property belonging to Mr. Kilgoer at the racecourse, Paiawai Thames, for the pu-poseof bleaching flax. Messrs Finlay and McLiver have secured the right of obtaining flax from' Piako from the natives, and intend to start work in the tubings shed, in Pahau street, behind St.James’ Presbyterean Church, Thames, where the scutching portion of the process will be carried on, the bleaching, etc., being performed at Parawci. There is also every prospect of another flaxmill being shortly erected in the same district. In the conrseof conversation with Messrs W. 11, and S. B. Wilson, of Broken Hill, during their recent visit to Te Aroha, they informed us . that on January 3rd the directors of the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine decided to so increase the reduction plant that 5000 tons of ore can be satisfactorily reduced weekly. The reducing power of tire present plant is equal to 3000 tonsjrer week. When these additions have been effected tire output of lead from the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine will amount to from 800 to 1000 tons weekly, and 250.000 ounc®' 5 , or Rny 8 lois, of fine silver weekly. At the same meeting dividends were also increased to 10s per month on the present shares ; whioh is equal to £5 per month on the original £9 shares, the present, value of hitter being £950 ; and nearly £l5O per share has been paid in dividends and bonus’. It was also decided to divide, the present shares into sixths’ which will make the number of shares 9G0.000, ns against 16,000 original shares, when the Company was formed,

The tender of Mr J. Anderson for the construction of the first section of the Midland Railway at Springfield has been accepted. The total cost will exceed £60,000. A meetingof Anglican Church delegates from the various districts round Te Arolia was held in St. Mark’s Church on Wednesday evening last, when it was resolved to hHd a concert, on Friday, 24th inst., in aid of the Parsonage rent fund. A Dublin paper, of November Bth, haß the following interesting item “ From correspondents in various parts of the country we have during the last two or thieeday received accounts testifying to the extraordinary mildness of our usually severe November weather. 'Within almost a bowshot of the crowded streets of the city, sunflowers and dahlias are blooming in the gardens, and primroses are.plentiful. All the flowers named had apparently died down after their long protracted summer and autumn blossoming, but now have burst anew into flower under the influence of unseasonably genial weather. The harsh chills of winter at any moment may drive hack all this premature growth. But, when we have well entered upon the winter season, it is curious to read of such freaks of garden growth.”

A much abused man.—One of the most remarkable of the many remarkable political demonstrations .that have enlivened and sometimes distracted the people of the Mother Country dining the past year or two, occurred at Belle Yoe Gardens, Manchester, on the 13th October la3t, on the occasion of Mr Balfour, the much abused and threatened Chief Secretary of lieland, delivering an address there. His advent in the town was gieeted with tremendous enthusiasm, and an enormous procession of Conservative societies conducted him from his place of residence to the gardens a popular demonstration which, to quote an English paper, “ show how strong' a hold the Irish Chief Secretary lias obtained upon the people, and that Home Rule is opposed by the masses as well as the classes.’’ Mr Balfour addressed some 12,000 persons in the gardens, and was deeply moved by liis reception, and spoke with a feeling almost pathetic in its simplicity and sincerity. He called his reception “ The welcome that makes up in.one moment for all the calumnies which have been poured upon me ever since I look the office I now bold.” Questioned as to the policy of the Government, he said—- “ Every expectat’on which in my most sanguine moments I ever ventured to frame with regard to the results, the happy lesults, that might follow from a film administration of the law in Ire’anf, and from the course of remedial legislation, which we have begun, though we have not finished, every such expectation has 'been fulfilled, and more tl>an fulfilled.” The meeting was wonderfully enthuiastic and tlie speaker eloquent and logiea 1 .

The following paragraph which appeared in.a recent issue of the Hawke’s Bay Courier, should prove interesting to those at Te Arolia who lately heard Sir Thomas Esmonde denouncing Dish landloids and the cruelties of eviction :—“ Here is some more of the wrong side of the stocking, all the same as Parnell and his tenants. A prominent Irish paper, the Daily Express, states that Sir Hips. Esmonde, M.P., and pat'iot, an l delegate to collect cash for evicted tenants, has been evicting his own tenants on his estate in County Wexford. Commenting on tho fact the Daily Express says ; “ The Nationalist papers, with characteristic honesty, have been silent on the subject, and the country is kept in the dark as to the difference between theory and practice in the administration of his property by tbe popular Home Rule member for South Dublin. Ihe time is opportune for asßoiiiugthe rights of property while he is in Australia on an eleemosynary expedition to collect funds to replenish the exhausted exchequer of the League. His tenants who may be turned out of their holdings in the meantime will, perhaps, be taken special care of in consideration of his services.”

The following advertisement has been appearing for some time in a Dunedin publication ; —“ To Journalists and Piioteis— Bi-Weekly Newspaper and Job Printing business, showing good returns, with plant and leasehold premises for sale, or might be leased. Charming: and salubrious agiieulluial district in North Island. Term'', £l5O cash; balance can lemain. IW personal reasons the proprietor is willing to dispose of this concern considerably below the market price, or would exchange for shaie in leading journal in Middle Island. Proprietorship of the paper is sup posed tocairy with it a certainty of election to House. Apply ” &c., Co. It does appear strange that such a brilliant opportunity of securing certain fortune and political honour all in one act should not be at once jumped a. . It is so seldom one sees a valuable property, voluntarily offered belojo the market pr 've A “charming and salubiious agricultn.a l district” should in itself prove a sufficient attraction to the average journalist, but the fact that there are “good returns” and that

‘Thebalancepan remain"ought to beirresistiblo. If it isn’t, the further fact that the proprietorship of the paper is “ supposed -o co.'ry with it cerrtakay of election to House ” should fetch ’em, although it does not say whether the prop.ietor is to be elected to the Upper or Lower House. Why not include a few morn trifling inducements when about it. For instance, why not say the puichaser will be at liberty to put a handle before or aftehis name, or both; and at top and bottom of it too if he Ekes, and can assume that he is ‘somebody,’ as the ‘nobody’s’ aie not likely to trouble their heads about the maiter. Then there are so many kinds of propiietois ; real proprierc * (ihose that find the cash), and nominal proprietors ; regisieied proprietors, and unregistered proprietors, etc., etc. Really though it is setting rather a- low estimate upon the intelligence of the dwellers in the charming and salubrious locality referred te, when it is. practically intimated by advertisement that their votes can be secured by becoming proprietor of the local paper (whether by purchase, or lease, or for what term is not stated). Surely someone desirous of being in Parliament, and not certain of getting there by any other means, will find this a cheap and easy way. The present proprietor would accept a “share in a leading journal in Middle Island”, tool Is this share also to carry the entree to Parliament wiih it ? Altogether the moral of the whole thing ig that there is nothing like cheek.

On Wednesday last whilst Mr W. H. Herries, of Shaftesbury, was rounding 1 up some cattle on his farm, his horse stumbled, Mr Herries being thrown heavily on his shoulder which was dislocated by the force of the fall. Dr Cooper was sent for and soon restored the arm to its proper position ; but it will, as a matter of course, be some five orsix weeks before MrHerries will be able to get about mudi,