Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 445, 12 February 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1890.

J This above all—to thine own self bo true, £nd it 'must foUQYsr a? tbo night the day Thou cansb not then be false to any man.’ '■ ' "" Shakespeare.

Messrs W. 11. apd S. R. Wileop sailed jim* Mejbquipe fj-pm the Bltiff, on Bth inst. The Minister for Educttion for New jSouth Wales proposes to call for applications for the position of 'nstractors in the i rk.-'h'ips to be started jn connection witli liin public schools. Fiqm Monday’ next, 17th inst., mails for Waikato and Auckland, etc., will f-jose at Te Arolia post office, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 8 p.m. ; insteadof-at9p.jp., as formerly. Late jetters, bearing an extra penny stamp and posted before Ca.m. the following morn jhg, will lie. forwarded by same mail as if posted by 8 p.m the evening previous. A number of miners fpom waiorongnjn ii "are proceeding to Brokpn li ill, attracted by- the high rate of wages, and Employment for miners here being scarce 311st now. The following jeft this week : ‘Messrs W. Smith ; T. Goldsworthy ; 3en. IT ill ; Pi Coghlan ; W. Godfery ; and some half-dozen others have arranged to sail lirxf week. These men will proceed direct to British Broken Hill, Mr .John Howell, manager, under engageipent at lOs per {lav. In Gisborne, at the freezing works,sheep f.i:q slaughtered anr} dressed for £1 per uindred, and it is stated an expert can get jhiough as many as eighty in one day.

Rev C. Worboys (of Avondale, A qok land), delivered his lecture op Lights and Rhadesof London Life, to a good house in |'ie Te Aroha Public Hall on Monday evening ; Mr W, A. Murray in the chair ; Rev T. A. Norrie also on the platform. The lecturer gave many interesting facts Relative to the. rnighty r metropolis, its wonders and peculiarii jes. The Chairman during an interval enlivened the proceed ipgs'with several violip solos. At the c'onelu-i«n of tjie lecture, the usual votes of thanks were accorded the lecturer and pliairmah. Pn the trapsfer of £IOUO worth of stock ip New South Wales, the State mqkes a levey of £2 10s; jn South Australia a similar transaction would only cost 10s; whilst in Victoria a Id stamp covers pvcrythipg, yyhethcr the value of the |itpck transferred is £SO or £50,000. Tin’s is stated' to he one of the reasons for the j-ecpnt shifting of the management of rseverii] mining companies from tjydney to IJVlyJboiirne ;' the heavy transfer charges iu'lhc former place, lreiag opposed to tree -|*Using and selling of shares.

Since school i;e-opened at Te Aroha the ■attendance has been inncli larger than at jiiiy previous period since the school was fstablished. In' fact oil some days now pne of the school rooms is overcrowded. Yesterday the Chairman received a report troip the liead teacher relative to this piattei; as follows ; “ In accordance with Regulation No 38, I have to report that jhe school is oyer-crowded. .The'number attending to r day is 170, while there are 18 absent* Floor space is available for 153, made'up as under; North, room for hijinlief present', 6$ ; Sotnli, room for nunher present, 102. Yesterday 163 typre in a (tendance.” \Yp Would remind pur readers of the pub-itninment to be held this evening in jhe Te Aroha Wesleyan Church. ' An attractive programme is announced. Anthems, glees, churn's, solos, duet- 1 , f 'citaTfions'j etc'., are to be given. Tjia ministers of the several churches are al l expected to UP present and to give addresses. The spcc.ial feature of tlie evening will be a nresentation to Miss F. G. Maingay, as an achnowledgenn-ni of her efficient services as organist. The tickets are- at popular prices, viz. : single tickets, Is; 'children, pd ; while ticJiets’to admit all the mritihers pf any’ one family may lie had for tlie sin til of 2s \Yp hope to see a full house. J

.The ordinary monthly meeting of the, Pinko County Council will bo held at Cambridge on Saturday pext. . The poll re raising a loan for making a road from Okoroire station to Okoroirc Hot Springs was averse to the work being undertaken, the voting being 15 for and 22 against. ’ In the epurseqf his lecture on Monday evening, Rev Mr -Worboys referred to Mr W. S. Allen (of Annandale), when M.P. at Hoinq, and said that although Mr Allen was a downright Liberal in politics, yet lie was as much respected by the Tory inembu 1 as by the Liberals. Mr Murray (Chairman at Rev Mr Worboys’ lecture), who has lately returned from a visit to the. Old Country, also bore high testirnony to the esteem and affectionate witli which Mr Allen is regarded in the district where he has so long resided in England. Mr Murray instanced his great kindness to the working classes, and said thousands of poor people were yearly entertained at Woodbead Hall (Mr Allen’s English nsidenee), and much thoughtfulness exercised by him for their comfort in many ways.

The. first outdoor service in the Domain, was held on Sunday evening last, commencing at six o ? dock, and lasting three quarters of an hour. There was a really good gathering, hearty singing (Sarkey’s hymnS), and beyond adoubt the. promoters have good reason to he pleased at the manner in which the meeting passed off ; the speakers being most attentively listened to. Representatives of the various churches were present and took part; and it certainty was most refreshing to see Church of England, Wesleyajn, and Presbyterian ministers thus meeting together on one common platform, to unitedly seek by this means to sow the good seed. As in business, so in religious matters, union is strength. ' All honour to Rev Mr Evans, who took the initiative in arranging for these meetings, and to Revs Lawry and Norrie, who have so readily, gladly, and hearti! y co-operated with him in the good work.

On Saturday evening last Mr Reuben Parr met with a severe accident, the wonder being lie was not even more badly injured. It appeals iie was proceeding homeward on horseback shortly after nightfall, accompanied by Messrs McCabe and Wiseman, and aftei leaving the township the three brrkeiptoa smartgallop. When near the railway crossing on the Cemetery road, Mr Parr in the dark rode slap against the pole arjfl horses of a double buggy coming towards Te Arolia ; with the result, that Mr Parr was thrown from his horse with great violence and fell between the pole and shafts, the buggy passing over him, lie was at once picked up, and being severely hurt was placed in the buggy and driven to the Hot Springs Ilolel, where he still remains. Dr Cooper was called in. and found it ncceasaiy to "stitch one bad tear on the flesh}' part of the leg, supposed to have been caused by the hook of the buggy pole. He is however progressing satisfactorily, and we hope will bo able to be out and about again shortly. At the last monthly meeting of Tauranga County Council the following letter was rend from the Surveyor General with respect to the proposed construction of a wharf at Katikati :—“ lam requested bv the Minister of Lands to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 20th ultimo., addressed to the Minister for Public Works,

applying for a grant of L 250 promised for a wharf at Katikati. In reply I am to state that on referring tlie matter to the Hon. the Minister of Native Affairs, it has been ascertained that a verbal promise was made to Messrs Kelly and Fraser last session,that a sum of £250 would be placed on the Estimates as a subsidy' of LI for LI towards tlie wharf at Katikati, on condition tfiat the money should not be expended until Mr Gordon, of the Mines D ‘partment, bad satisfied the Government that machinery for the Wnihi goldfields could be landed at a cheaper rate there than can now be done via Paeroa. The money should have been voted last session, and I am to apologise for its having been inadvertently omitted from the Estimates through pressure of business. Steps will, however, be taken to obtain the necessary’ yote next session, if Mr Gordon’s r. p u t is favourable t» your view of the case.” —Cr Macmillan stated that Inspector Gordon bad beep at Katikati on January 3lst, having gone there to inspect the site of the Katikati win r c . Cr Killen was with Inspectoi Gordon, and they saw Mr G. V. Stewart, who told him the wharf was not wanted, as all the money was required for the erection of the Waihi bridge,— Cr Macmillan had met them, and was asked his opinion, and what Cr Killen had said was right. MrGordon had told them that Government would give£l for £1 for the Waihi brid, e, and Mr Stewart said this bridge was wanted, he considered they were entitled to the Waihi Bridge, and a wharf was also required.—At the same meetingMr Dilzell wrote asking for a sum of money to be voted for the opening up of the watercourses on the Te Aroha Track, and that he would be willing to overlook the work. — Resolved that the Clerk write to the Sur-veyor-General asking that; a sum of money be allowed to repair the Te Aroha Track, and that five pounds be allowed to Mr Dalzell to expend on this road.