Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1890.

Te Aroha News, 15 February 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1890.

* This above all —to thine own naif be true, And it must follow as the night tha day Thou canefc not then be false to any man.’ SIIAKKSFKARK.

Mr J. Benidick has commenced bu-iness as gumnaker, locksmith, etc., at To Aroha. The second outdoor service in Te Aroha Domain, will be held to-morrow evening, commencing at six o’clock. The Wesleyan and Presbyterian services to be held in this district to-morrow will be found duly advertised as usual. Mr W. J. Hunter will hold his first sheep fair of the season at Ohaupo on Wednesday next. There will be the usual fortnightly sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Cui rts Te Aroha on Tuesday next,

A second small party of men from this district leave for Broken Hill next week, amongst them Messrs H. Southey, Jos. Armitt, C. Campbell, Geo. Newman.

Ohinemuri County Council invite tenders for the right to cut flax along the roads and road reserves, within the County for twelvemonths. Sceadvt.

Messrs Earle and party, from Katikati, have commenced operations at VVaihi, having undertaken a contract to make and burn 100,000 bricks, for the Wuilii G. and S. Mining Company. Mr Locke, of Ne'son, will conduct two services at Te Aroha to-morrow, iu the morning in the Wesleyan Church at eleven; in the evening in the Public Hall at seven. A meeting of all those inter u sted in getting up a race meeting at Te Aroha is convened for this evening at the Palace Hotel, at eight o’clock. There was a veiy fair attendance at Rev C. Worboys’ lecture on Tuesday evening last, in Waiorongomai Public Hall ; subject : “ A Man’s a Man for A’ That.” Rev T. A. Norrie presided. Mr J. McNieol will hold his great annual sheep fair at Ohaupo on Thursday, 27th February, when over twenty thousand sheep will be offered, including a valuable stud flock of four hundred Lincoln ewes.

The slander case, heard in Auckland Supreme Court this week, in which Thos. Mace sought to recover £1250 damages, from J. Bae, pawnbroker, terminated on Wednesday last in a verdict for defendant, costs being allowed on the highest scale. lion. John Bryce, M.HR. for Waipn, will address his constituents as follows iHamilton, Saturday 15th inst. ; Te Awamutu, Monday 17th ; Whatawhata, Thursday 20th ; Raglan, Saturday 22nd ; Ngartiawahia, Monday 24th ; Ohaupo, Thursday 27t1». On Thursday Inst Mr W. F. Hunt, of Waiorongomai, met with a nasty accident whilst ploughing on his own farm. It appears the horses attempted to bolt, and in some way one of tlie plough handles struck Mr Hunt violently on the knee, (lisp icing the knee cap. Dr Cooper’s services were tailed in, and he soon restored the kneecap to its proper, position. If you have a h>ng day’s journey before you, spare your horse at the start, and let him frequently walk to recover his wind. Continue this until he has swe tel and dued three lime-i, and you may ask of him whatever you please ; he will not leave von in difficulty.—Arab maxim.

Saturday return tickets will bo issu’d at any station on 20th and 21« t inst., for the benefit of those desiring ti attend the swimming gala at Hamilton on Frida}' next. The annual meeting of shareholders in Te Arolia Public Hall Company, Limited, was held in the Hull on Wednesday evening, Mr R, Harris in the chair. Minutes of the previous annual meeting were read and confirmed, and the following appointed as directors for the current year : Messrs J. La very (Chairman); Harris, Pavitt, Flies, and Hotchin, |Mr Harris was appointed Secretary. A cricket match will take place this afternoon in Mr A . W, Edwards’s paddock, near Post Office, Te Arolia, Married v. Single ; the following being the players;—-Married: Messrs Hirst, Cochrmce, Bygrave, Smales, Prime, J. B. Johnson,. Heath cote. Young. Robson, Hall, Willis, Hogan. Single : Messrs Meldrum, P. Johnson, Simmons, Biggs, Calderwood, E, Mackie, Farmer, Strange, Maingny, Walsh, Barker, etc, A Very Brief Lease :• —At the meeting of Cambridge Borough Council oil Tuesday last Mr R. W. Dyer, solicitor, wrote under date February Bth ;• “ I am directed by Jumes Stewart Cockerton, by his attorney Sir Win, Wasteneys, to write applying for the consent of your Council to a sublease for three months, from the 10th instant of the property now sub let to him from G. W, Russell (allotment 601, Cambiidge East) to G. L. Mil ward. As your Council is doubtless aware, the security will not be affected in any way— Mr G." W, Russell still being primarily liable.”—The Council thought the term a very short one but decided not to offer any objection.—One of the Councillors remarked that Mr M.ilward had leased the Cambridge paper (Waikato News) for a similar term. —Waikato. Times. The Chairman of the Te Arolia Town Board has been introducing some new features in the mode of conducting public business, At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Board On last Saturday evening lie (1) most abruptly and without affording the other members an opportunity of bringing any other business forward, declared the business over and the meeting closed; (2) then a few minutes. aftervvards(in order to exclude the Press from a discussion going on amongst the members, re matters relating to the suppression of existing nuisances in the township) moved that the Board go into Committee (after declaring the meeting closed(!); (3) his motion to go into Committee being defeated, after the discussion had proceeded lor some time further he again declared the n esting had closed long ago, and said the members i were only sitting there wasting their time. (1). As will b 9 seen by advertisement Rev T. J. Wills will deliver an address in Te Arolia Public llall on next Wednesday evening, at half- past seven. Rev Mr Wills as Wesleyan minister, was stationed at Te Aruba for some two or three years, during which time he made many friends who will be very pleased to see him again. Since lie went to Opotiki to reside he lias been a most active and determined worker in tho temperance cause, and as might be expected, has consequently had to suffer the ill will and hatred of those who from sordid motives arc opposed to this good work. Tho warfare became so hot at length that his enemies made an attempt to burn him in effigy, which attempt roused the whole township, and the people of every denomination turned out in great numbers acd not only promptly put a stop to the procession, tore the effigy to pieces, but inarched through the town in procession cheering Rev Mr Wills, who is exceedingly popular with a large majority of the residents. Although very few at Te Aroha are aware of the lively proceedings that have been going on at Opotiki, briefly referred to above, still many will be glad to again meet Mr Wills, and to hear his address which is sure to prove very interesting ; and we hope to see a good house.