Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 439, 22 January 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1890.

* This above all—to thine own self bo true, And it must follow as tho night the day Thou canet nob then be false to any man.’ Shakespeare.

The annual congregational meeting in connection with Rt. Mark’s Church, Te Aroha, will be held to-morrow evening at half-past seven. At the ordinary monthly meeling of riako County Council, held at Cambridge on Satui day last, there was no business of importance to transact. A report of the meeting will appear in onr next issue. The settlers interesting themselves in the establishment of a ‘creamery’ at Waitoa, met in the Waihou Public Hall on last Saturday evening, to further discuss matters in connection 11■ • rewith, Mr R. Farr in the chair. We are glad to know there is a good prospect of thenquiied number uf cows being guaranteed. Mr J. MeNicol’s Waitoa live stock sale on Friday last was well attended and good priees obtained. Mr McNicol’s three sales at Te Audia on Saturday were al! largely attended, and satisfactory prices realised, The blacksmith’s sliop was not offered for sale, having been previously disposed of privately to Mr G. Taylor, blacksmith, of Waiorongomai, who is about to commence business in these premises.

E. Mackie, in the emplo3’ of Mr S. L. Hirst, mineral water manufacturer, Te Aroha, met with an accident yesterday, near Paeroa. It appears he was driving home a spring cart, tandem, and when coining through liotokuhu Gorge, the back strap broke, the shafts went down and broke short off, joung Mackie being thrown out violently, and rendered uneoncions for some little time. Subsequently, howeve**, he managed to ride, home on one of the horses. A machinist in the machine works of Noblesville, 111., has invented a wonderful gun that proposes to supersede all its pre deeessors foi strong and rapid tiring. His model, with application for patent, is now at the Patent Office nt Washington. Its construction shows the remark aide ingenuity of the invenfor, It is entiinnsi-d of a single rifled barrel and wheel 18'.inches I in diarnet l r, which hold flie ch;jrg< sof ammunition. W hen operated, fhis wheel i • turned by a crank, and upon t|>e trial it was found capable of discharging 1900 balls per minute, with a fojrye ecjmij to the Gatling gun,

Mr J, Mch. Murray, accompanied by his wife and family, loft Te Aroha by this mornings train for Dunedin, via Auckland; Mi Murray having obtained an appointment some iitttle distance from the southern capital. By the same train, Mr Jess Devey also left for Dunedin. Tn 1884 the ensilage silos in the United Kingdom did not exceed si::, but they had increased to 2352 in 1887. Information received from Canada tends to show that the ensilage may be 3’et more cheaply produced than has been hitheito supposed, as it is stated that Mr Robe; Ison, superintendent of the Ontario Agricultural College, reports that there is no occasion to bring pressure to bear on the adage in the pits. Fifiy acres of gieen stuff that would produce 100 tons of hay at an outlay for making of about LI per ton, will produce SCO tons of ensilage for an out lay of 2* per ton ; and it is confidently assented that the latter wiU he worth at least double the amount of the forme*’, either for fa tening or milk-pro-ducing, qualities. There has b en a Jet written about New Zea'and flax lately, says a correspondent of the Auckland Stay, hut one point appears to have b< en overlouked by everybody, and that is that there is a proper season for dressing flax, whereas millers are put-

ting it ib'-ough the mill afl the year round. Now, years ago when the Maoiies used to scrape flax to purchase firearms with (in ordei to save their own lives and take their enemies’), they could only produce a saleable fibre during three months in the year. Probably some of our oloverJmen will investigate this. The sap rises? and falls in the flax ns it dues in everj’thing else that grows, and it stands to reason that it cannot turn out the same class of fibre all the year round. For a good sample of Goverment redtnpeisin and left-handed economy a correspondent sends the following to the Christchurch Press :—A business gentleman in Geraldine had occasion to send to one of the Goverment offices in Wellington for a document, the fees on which amount to 2s, and enclosed 2s worth of 2d stamps in payment. Judge of his surprise when, by the return mail, he received an official letter enclosed i.i a big official letter envelope returning the 2d stamps, and requesting that a 2s stamp might be sent instead, The Government sta-

tionery and clerk’s time were thus wasted, and the whole inachineiy of the post office used for the purpose of making this di-tinction without a difference. The method of pegging down” roses in bi ds appears to he reviving in This is another way of making our gardens interesting, and it maywell he done in the case of all vigorous growing roses. The mode of procednie is thus given in (he Garden :—lf the long shoots of the previous season’s growth are pegged down to the ground, they, will flower their whole length ; whereas, if left standing only the upper buds will break, and if pruned hard hack, beauty is literally and needlessly sacrificed. A strong root is usually thrown up from the base of the one pegged down, so that when pruning time comes the operation is simply to cut away the old shoot and peg down the new one, and o on year after year, One season of growth and one of flower, and then the shoot is cut away. Thus the roses are ever being reiuvenated and the youthful vigor brings abundance of bloom.

The London dock and shipping companies are going to make the people ol these colonies pay for the loss sustained through the recent strike, which t .ey maintain would never have succeeded or lasted so long had it not been for the monetary aid sent to the strikers from New Zealand and Australian. A circular has been issued by the Australian Shippers Committee, which says that there will be an advance in the rates oi‘ freight, on both measurement and weight goods, to Melbourne and Sydney, of 5s per ton, by vessels loaded by the Associated Brokers and the Ausiia’ian Mutual Company, after the despatch, in the case of Melbourne, of the Eskasoni, Earl Rosebery, Glenorohy, Bannockburn, and Horsa ; und in the case of Sydney after the Atalanta, Micionesia, Windsor Park, and Benleuch. It was only after several and somewhat protracted meetings that the Committee decided to agree to the above advance. In doing so they have been largely guided by the desire to give no justification to the brokers to withhold u sufficiency of tonnage,which, from the d : fticully*liere is now, there is now, even at present rates, in cha.teiing vessels, seemed somewhat likely* to again occur during tiie latter part of ihe year.

A meeting of creditors in tlie bankrupt estate of Win. Fagan, coni. actor, Hikutaia, was held at the office of Mr .T. A. M'ilcr, solicitor, Thames, on Wednesday last. The statement of the liabilities and ass t was estimated as follows : Liabilities : Unsecured debts, £1298 13s ; secured, LBBO. Assets : L 1822 17s, The bankrupt in his statement, which was read, said he came to the districtahout 1877,and worked ns bush contractor for the Union Sash and Door Co. for cutting and delivering timber at Tairua. About L2OOO worth of timber was burnt in the bush, which was charged, and allowed against his account. In a law suit with the Company, wiiich went against him, he estimated he lost about LIOOO in legal expenses and paying accountants and witnesses. He also carried on a guiu store at Hikutaia, gave a certain amount of credit on the opening of the Marototo goldfield, and made a number of bad debts to the extent of about LSOO through the field collapsing.? : About six j’ears ago lie took a contract from Robert Blair for cutting and delivering timber at Hikutaia. This was a payable contract, and should form,a valuable asset in his estate, there being about-12,000,000ft still to cut, and a great deal of the dead work was done. Since filing a large quantity of the timber had been delivered, and there wouid be actually due between L2OO and L3OO on this account, The farm of 50 acres at Hikutaia was held jointly between himself ard Robert Gibb, but was mortgaged.to James Darrow for LBGI and interest. Mr Dariow also held as security for this debt the percentages due to him (about LSOG) from the Kauri Timber Cotie reckoned the farm would more than pay the amount due to Mr Darrow, so that . the monies due to him front the Company should be free for division among liis creditors, It was resolved that tiie Official Assjgnee be assed to realise the estate as quickly as possible, that tenders be called for fhe cpntiact- with the Kauri Timber Co„ and that the farm (subject to the mortgage of L 880), farming implements, .sfock; etc. ? gpjfj by auction,

Ihe Oaroaru M iil in a recent issue had an article reieiring to the fact that one of the railway station masters had been commil ted to a lunatic asykm. Thisunfortunate gentlemen is said to be sane on all points except lailwny management,and (says our oont. mporary), it is quite plain that to attempt to understand the Railway Regu lations is beset with the gravest danger. If the Railway Commissioners are not already mud we do not want them to make themselves mad by any such severe metal exercise ; f< r the position would he very serious if they aggravated that mental weakness of which thev occasionally give evidence. “ Two children over three and not over twelve years old, may go as one passenger, but no le-*s than one portion will be punched if only one goes.” Does anyone need to ask whence this emanated ? It. is a sample of that confusing phraseological con-truction which affords evidence of ability to manage railways. If a guard can understand such instruction**, he is fit to be a guard—those who do not understand anything are fit to he Railway Commissioners. But, in reference to the above choice extract, there are degrees of comprehension which it is desirable that a railway servant, not a Commissioner, who is obviously not a Servant, ought to arrive at. The one great problem is, What does the punching mean ? If it refers to the nicking ol tickets by the guards, then how would it bs possible to punch less than one portion ; and a‘*ain, if “ not less than one portion will he punched if only one goes,” how* much less than one portion is to he punched if more than one goes? But it is hinted that the instruction refers to the castigation of children by guards. But if this he sq, in.cobnection with so serious a matter there should be greater minuteness. If not less than one portion is to be punched if only one child goes, how many portions are to be punched if several children go, and what portions are to be thus operated upon? We are getting akng ftmously in our railway management.