Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 454, 15 March 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1890.

* This above all—to thine own self bo true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou const not then be fqlse to any man.* Shakespeare.

Tlie ordinary monthly meeting of Piako. County Council will be held at Cquihi'idge to-day’, commencing at II a.m. Mr A. C, Caugliey, of Auckland, will conduct the nmrning service at the Ttj Arolia Wesleyan Chureh to-morrow, The Presbyterian ami Wesleyan services to lie held in this district to-morrov, will be found duly advertised as usual, The usual out' oor service in Te Arolia H .4 Springs D main will he held to-mor-row evening, cosiipe. cing punctually at six o’clock.

To-day at Waiurongouiai Messrs J. MeNiei.l and Go. will sell by nublio auotit mi, household furniture and effects, the property of Mrs Walsh. Mr Henry Varley, the well-known English evangelist, bus intimated his intention to visit Auckland in the course of a few days, The u*ual fortnightly sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s ‘and Warden’s Coupts at Te Arolia will be held on Tuesday negt, commencing at nine o'clqck. During the past twelve months no less than 1050 miners rights have been issued at the Warden’s office, Greymoutb. This does not look as if the mining industry was falling off. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Thursday, the jury brought iq a verdict of not guilty in the case of the natives, Kaniaru and Kohoneho, of Paeroa, charged with sheep stealing from Mr Alfred Thorp, of Paeroa.

Mr David ITean (who recently arrived in the Colony, fro in London, to investigate and report on the Bank of New Zealand) has been visiting various parts of the Waikato this week, accompanied by Mr J. B. Whyte, M.H.R, Messrs Burnett, Bros , of Walton, Richmond, this week received the following tenders for removing and adding to a house on their property : Messrs J, Lavery, £27 ; E. O’Connor, £25 ; James Mills, L 24. The tender, of Mr Laverv was accepted , As will he seep by advertisement a fast passenger train will ho despatched to To Awamutu, from Frankton Junction on Monday next. Rt. Patrick’s D.iy, in connection with the Ilautapu races, and Waikato Horticultural Show. Saturday return tickets will be issued by this train, In the cricket match, Paeroa v. Te Arolia, to be played at Te Avoha to-day, the following have been chosen to do battle for Paeroa, viz 1 Messrs S. Kelly, W. Sullivan, J. Bramley, W, Hampton, R. McGregor, A. Coutts, E. Gibbons, H. Stoneliill, Mason, A. McGruor, J. Stewart; Umpire, J. Coote.

At the Auckland Crown Lands Board meeting on Thursday last, a communication was read from the Secretary of the proposed Wailiou Creamery Company re the five acres of land fora ‘creamery’ site near Wailiou railway station, and objecting to a “leasehold title. It was resolved to advertise the land for sale by auction at an upset price of L2 per acre. Amongst the cases set down forbearing at the Civil Sittings of the Auckland Supreme Court, which commences on Monday next, is the following : With a jury of twelve: Robert Savage and others v. Waihi Gold Mining Co. (Limited) : Claim L 709 Ils GH, damages for breach of contract and money owing. At the last monthly meeting of the Ohineinnri School Committee, held on Monday, a communication was read from the Board oE Education proposing to make Karangahake a full time selno l , and Waihi and Owhafoa half time schools. After some discussion it was resolvid to request the Board to await the returns of the current quarter before coming to any definite decision.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, on Thursday, in the case of Commissioner of Crown Lands v. Malcolm Robertson, claim £2013s 3d, arrears of rent on section at Gordon Special Settlement, judgment was given for plaintiff for the full amount, with costs L2 3s. This is the second case within a month in which judgment has been obtained against special settlers at this settlement ; the previous case b ing that ot M. W. D. O’Keeffe. As an example of the current mining boom in mining stock at Reefton. a fort- ( night ago a man wa< sued for failing to satisfy judgment for £9, obtained by a local butcher. D fendant su’d he only h id a few valueless mining shares, and he 1 was quite willing to hand them to the [ judgment creditor in satisfaction of the claim, but the creditor refused to accept.. | Tn*day the market value of one lot alone is £9OO, the shares (Cumberland*), having ' in ten days advanced from zero to 3s 3d, the debtor holding three thousand. A very successful Harvest Festivn’ : n connection with the Paeroa Weslevau Church was held in the Paeroa Public H ill last Thursday evening. The service was conducted by Rev S. Lawrv, who delivered an appropriate address based pn Genesis I, 11, 12. There was a large attendance, and the Hall with its decorations and display of fruit, vegetables, etc., looked quite attractive, At the close of theservice the various thank offerings wpre sold at satisfactory prices, the prooeeds going to the liquidation of the circuit debt. Another example of how road traffic is successfully competing with the railways under the present system of management lias just transpired. The Invercargill auctioneers have entered into an arrange ment to hold monthly sales at Wyndham, and they find it cheaper to drive from town and back again than to use the railways. Some six or seven auctioneers have now taken a coach twice, and they find that besides beating the morning train as to time, they effect a saving of about L2 per trip.—Southland Times. A cricket match is to be played to-day at Annandale, Piako, between teams from Morrinsville and Annandale, Owing to the fact of its being the first time n cricket match has been played in the district, at least for a minibep of years, a good deal of interest is being taken in it. The following liaye been selected to do battle for Annandale ; Messrs John Allen, T. Allen, Robt. Allen, Steans, Hall, Cox, Tickelpenny, A. Smith. Bailey, Marshall, and F. If, Grey, For Morrinsvillo : Messrs Morrisey, Forest, Rowe, Nelson, Roberts, Hopkiqs, Smith, Keogh, Marshall, Orp, qnd Harrison. Mr J H. M oo, ' e i rcannger of the Marototo G. and S. Company’s mine, informs ns that the two Mnckay pans- and settler recently purehnseq from the Waihi Co , together with the necessary gearing, have been delivered at the Company’s buttery site after having been thoroughly overhauled byMessrs Price, Bros. Their erection is to he proceeded w ith at oqce, and will be completed in about a fortnight, wlieq a start will be made to pomtqence treating the supply of ore already to h ind, of which there is sufficient to keep the plant going, for a period of six or eight months. Operations in tiie mine .at .present are of a limited ehai'iipleiy.bnt the prospects are very encouraging, Aud the ore obtained of good quality .—Thames Star, (

Return cricket mutch, Paeroa v, Te Arolia, takes place to-ilai’, at To Arolia, Mr W. S. Allen is advertised to preach in the Wuiorongomai Public Hull on Sunday morning at 11 a.m., and at Te Arolui West at 3 p.lll. We would aavise our readers in these places not to miss tin’s opportunity of hearing so deservedly popular- a preacher. We are pleased to see the Auckland Furniture Company (Wellesley street, near Free Library) have received the first-class award for furniture at the Dunedin Exhibition; This firm since qoimnencing business have succeeded in establishing a very large and valuable connection. Their stock is exceedingly large (including not only every description of furniture and upholstery, but also carpets, linoleums, curtains, bedding, art fabrics, etc., etc.), is contiuualiy being replenished with all the latest novelties, and their prices are extremely moderate 5 whilst customers may rely upon receiving every attention and civility at the bands of the Company’s courteous and obliging manager, \\ 0 beg to acknowledge receipt of a copy of The Crown Lands Guide for the current year, published by the authority of the Minister of Lands. The Guide contains a draft of the land law’s of the Colony, with full details of the operations of the various systems' ; full particulars of land in the various land districts now’ open for selection and to be opened up, with beautifully executed maps ; and a quantity of useful information about the condition of the pastoral und agricultural industries, minera’s, frozen meat production, etc. Tlio Guide states that the extent of land in cultivation (including sown grasses) had increased from 997,477 acres in 1869, to 7,670,167 acres in 1889 an increase of over three million acres in ten years. The export of flax in 1889 was 17,084 tons, valued at £361,182. The frozen meat export fur the year 1889 was valued at £783,374. A vast amount of valuable information is given in this Guide.

Some trouble has been experienced at Waiorongomai way lately by settlers, through sheep worrying by dogs, On Thursday night last three dogs were engaged in worrying sheep on Mr J. Hanks’ farm ; killing several sheep. Mr Hanks oppottunely came on the scene at the time, and succeeded in shooting one of the dogs, the other two (both sporting dogs) escaping. The dog killed, it is stated, belonged to Mr Jamieson, of Waiorongomai. It is to be hoped the owner of the other two dogs, if aware of their proclivities in the direction indicated, will at once have them destroyed. To simply give away, or send to another district, a dog known to worry sheep, just to get him out of the way, is an act which cannot he too strongly condemned —in fact ought to be punished by law—as the bad habit is practically certain to assert itself in the animal in its new home. An ex-New Zealand official, writing to a friend in InvercargM, gives a very gloomy account of Victoria’s prospect- 1 . He say’s Melbourne is a terrible place to live in, a place of show and blow and front, of filth, prestilencoand seething corruption Physically’, morally and commercially the colony bids fair to displace even New Zealand in any claim to the title of “The Great Loan Land,” and ere long she will follow, suit in the matter of depression, only’ it will lie intensified tenfold. Work in the manufacturing lino is intensely slack, but many will hang on and keep working in the hope of things reviving, They will hold on as long as they can, and then the sacking of hands will follow, and the labouring classes will begin to suffer. They do not feel it much as yet, because of the hopefulness of the employers, which deters them from reducing hands before stocks are beyond reasonable bonds.

At the ordinary monthly’ meeting of the Thames-Coromundel United District Charitable Aid Board, held on Tuesday last, the following estimate of receipts and expenditure for tlie ensuing year was submitted and adopted : Receipts : Surplus of revenue over expenditure, 1889-90, £IBO ; receipts on account of maintenance of inmates of Orphanage and Old Men’s Home, £IOO ; voluntary subscription to Ludie3 Benevolent Society, £4O ; subsidy on do., £4B ; local contributing bodies £776 7s 4d ; Government subsidy’ on do.’ £776 7s 4d. Tot d, £IB9O 14s 81. Ex-’ penditure ; Charitable Aid out-door relief, £BOO ; maintenance of Orphanage, L 450 ; maintenance of Old Men’s Lome, L 350 ; Secretary’s salary, LIOO ; petty’cash, L2O ; printing, advertising, and stationery, L 22 14s 8d ; travelling expenses, L 25 ; Ladies’ Benevolent Society, LBB ; balance of cost of erection of Orphanage bridge, L 35. Total, Llßt*o I4s Bd, Tlie difference between estimated expenditure over revenue being L 1552 14s Bd, leaves the sum of L 776 7s 4d to be equally contributed by the local bodies liable to contribute, and the Government. The total rateable value as per Property Tax valuation of the Tliames and Ohineinuri and Coromandel Counties and the Borough of Thaniea is L 558,980. An assessment of one third of a penny in the £ on this sum will produce the amount required. Tlie amount payable by each of the local bodies named herein on this basis is as follows:—Thame# County’, L 245 4s 7d ; Ohineinnri County, LlO4 6s 4d ; Coromandel County, L 175 4s lid; Thames Borough, L 251 Ils 6d ; total, L 776 7s 4d.

The Hamilton correspondent of the Auckland Star writes as follows respecting Mr Bryce;—“He has been all through the electorate, seen nearly everybody, and is very much pleased with the reception lie was accorded everywhere. He certainly hasmndean impression in the constituency, and lias left behind many more staunch supporters than he had when he arrived here. Even those who differ from him on the- property tax question cannot but acknowledge that his views on all other topics of iutere.it to the colony are sound — 1 Sound as they make ’em ’ —as an elector remarked after one of his meetings. When asked publicly if he would stand for this part of the country in the new Parliament, lie said that after the reception he had been given, and the handsome manner in which the constituency had behaved towards him, he felt it to be his duty tp place himself in their hands, and if they wanted him he would again place himself af their service, I think somehow that he will be wanted. One little thing I heard which speaks for itself—hedges not believe in horse-racing, and vylien asked to subscribe to some local races at various places lie plainly said sp find did not put his autograph down. llow mnny candidates or representatives would huve tl|e plqck tg act so ? Not many.”

A carious mistake occurred lately in the printing of labels for a meat preserving Company. The printer had been in the habit of labelling cuts of beef o r mutton, as the case might be, with the words, “ withoit bone," prominently displayed. The Company having added kidney soup to its lists, the new article was ticketed as “ Kidney soup—without bone 1”