Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 460, 5 April 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890.

* This above all—to thine own self bo trn9( Apd it must follow an the nighb the day Thou cansfe nob then be false to any man.’ Shakkspkark.

The School Committee will meet at the school house on Monday evening at G p.m. Tenders for road-making, etc., are invited by the Ohinimuri County Council. Meeting of Gordon settlers this evening at 7.30, at Mr Beeson’s house on trie settlement. The time for receiving tenders for Mr Strange’s contrast for ditching, etc., closes at 12 o’clock to-day. There will be no service in connection with the Presbyterian Church in Te Aroha Hall to-morrow. The Waitoa Road Board advertise that all rates remaining unpaid after the loth inst. will be sued for. The District School broke up on Thursday for the Easter holidays. Duties will be resumed on Monday, the 14th inst. It is stated that in the interior of Africa there hus been found a tribe of Christians, who had never before seen a white man. Tho surrounding tribes are all pagans. Tho open air service in the Domain tomorrow will bo held at four o’clock instead of six as heretofore. The Rev F. G. Ecans will conduct the service. The Piako County Council call for tenders, receivable till the 11th inst., for constructing a bridge and other work at the Gordon Settlement, A well-known Piako chief, rained Solomon,has died under suspicioiisjcirouinstances. The police are making enquiry as to the cause of his death. - The vestry of St. George’s Church. Thames, have resolved to erect a parsonage. Mr J. Ooombes is the successful tenderer for the building, the price being £326. ! .. The influenza epidemic continues to spread. A number of persons have been attacked in Auckland, and cases are also repoited from Cambridge and the Thames. It is said to be disappearing at Dunedin and other places in the South. It is notified that the first meeting of the creditors of Reginuld Aitken and Henry Cooper, flax mill proprietors, late of Matamata, will be held at the office of MrMeldrum,solicitor, Te Aroha, on Wednesday, the 9tn inst., at 11 o’clock. Edmund George, junr,, miner, Wniorongomai, was charged in the R.M. Court, on Tlnrsday, with criminally assaulting his sister-in-law, a girl under fourteen years of age, named Catherine Young. He was committed for trial.

The auction sale of horses, etc., at Cambridge on ’Wednesday, by Messrs J. McNicol and Co., was a very successful one. There was a large attendance oi buyers from the surrounding districts, and fair prices were realised.

As yesterday was a close holiday in the post and telcgrupli offices, we aro unable to lay before our readers the latest European and Australian news by cable, and items from tho provinces.

A shocking uccident occurred at the Onehunga ironworks on Wednesday. A man named Williain-on, being unable to get out of the way when a bur of red hot iron was coining' through the rollers, it went through his thigh, burning the poor fellow in a shocking manner. At the meeting of the Crown Lands Board in Auckland on L’lmrsd iy Mr Hill reported on J. K. Nails' perpetual leuse of 29 acres at Te Aroha. The area gruss sown was 20 acres. The land was wet aud swampy in winter. The selector, who was a railway labourer, resided at Waitoa, not on his selection, which he took up five years ago. It was agreed to call ou Mr Neils for an explanation as to why bo had not resided on the luud.

In the Auckland Supreme Court on Monday last, Mr S. Hesketh uppeured in support of a motion that an order of discharge be granted Josiah C. Firth. The Ufficiul Assignee’s report was favourable, and there was no opposition on the part ot the creditors. His Honour, Judge Connolly, said the affair was a bad one. The debts were £35,000, and the dividend tid in the £, or less, but there being no opposition, the order of discharge was granted. ■ A lecture in aid of the, funds of the Public Library will be delivered in the Court House on Monday evening (Easter Monday) by the Rev. S. Lawry. The subject will be be the first Fifty Years in New Zealand, and the well-known ability of the lecturer together \yith the claims of thp institution to which the proceeds are to bp given, ought to attract a large aqdiepce. Hot ipilhj M;S. Hayes' substitute for liquor when lieetied as a stimuicnr, in a popular beverage in Washington, it is a quick restorative,

Chicago is fortunate in her sons. Mil lionaire John Crevnjr has bequeathed L 45, 000 for founding a public library in the city,

A communion service will be hold in (lie Wesleyan Church a£ the usual hour on the evening of Easter Tuesday. It will be the Inst occasion on which RevS. Lawry will officiate as minister of this district, Arid as members of other denominations are cordially invited it is hoped there will bo a very large congregation to show their appreciation of the services rendered to th,e district by the rev. gentleman during the period of his ministry here. Yesterday being Good Friday was observed in the manner usual on the occasion. By some it was regarded as a day for pleasure seeking, and the weather being fino, it afforded them an excellent ooportunity for out-of-door enjoyment. Others more religiously disposed attended Divine service. At St. Mark’s church, sermons appropriate to the occasion were delivered by tho Rev F. 'Jr. Evans in the moaning, and .Mr E. Y\, Cox in the evening, both services being very well attended. The excursion train from Auckland brought a large number of pasSengsrs. It consisted of eight carriages all of which were well filled, and it was estimated that over two hundred persons arrived. The baths were the chief attraction to most of them, and the Domain during the after noon presented a lively appearance. At 5.30 the train started on the return journey and took away the majority of the excur sionists, but a number remained behind with the intention of spending their Easter holidays in the district. Professor Wrightom recommends the application of scwt of salt and 3 to 5 tons of lime per acre to coarse, rank pasture, as tends to produce a finer herbage. Salt is also used with advantage on light Boilo for wheat and mungolds, at the rate of a boat scwt per acre* I have known much heavier quanities to be used; but on heavy soils salt is injurious, as it keeps them wet and of a sticky consistency. Salt does good in destroying slugs ; but it also kills earthworms, which aro very valuable agencies in the fertilisation of the soil, by aerating and draining it, and bringing up matter from the subsoil, after passing it through their bodies.

The service of song, “ Jessica’s First Prayer,” was given on Wednesday, evening at Te Aroha West, by Te Arolia Wesleyan Church Choir, assisted by several Te Arolia West and other singers. The connective readings were given by Rev S. Lawry, who also presided over the meeting. The singing was unusually good, except that the choroses would have been improved by the presence of a few more male voices. The duet “Poor Little Jessica,” by Misses Mill and Ormiston, was specially well rendered, and “Remember the Poor,” solo by Miss M. Lavery, with recitative by the choir, was also well given. Miss F. G. Maingay played the accompaniments with her usual efficiency. The attendance was not so large as it ought to have been, considering the meritorious character of the performance. There was at first a very Btrong feeling expressed at the borough of Cambridge being removed from the Waikato electorate, and with Piako being tacked on to the goldfields and some of the Ohinemuii and Tanratiga ridings, and a meeting of a committee of the Borough Council was held to consider the matter and enter a formal protect. The committee, however, came to the conclusion that the proposed alteration in *he electoral arrangement woo d be favourable rather than otherwise to Cambridge, whose interests are identical with those of Piako, of which county it is indeed the count}’ town. Cambridge would certainly be only a corner of the Te Arolia electoral district, but were it included in that of Waikato, this would still be the case, and not having Piako with it, its weight would be less. As it is, Cambridge and Piako would number some 3450 votes, against 4230 in other parts of the district, the interests of which latter are similar to their own. If, too, Cambrige were to a6k to to be transferred from the To Arolia district because of incompatibility, how much worse would be the case of Piako, still left in the Te Aroha district, without the assis f ance which the companionship of Cambridgo would afford it V Still there are some here who do not believe in the propo ed boundary of the electoral district, and who talk of calling a public meeting to consider the position,—Correspondent N.Z. Herald. A funny story of a wedding in the North is told by the Newcastle Chronicle. Two couples had just been united at a local church in the bonds of holy matrimony. After duly tying the marriage knot, the clergyman led the way to the vestry, expecting that the newly-married persons would follow him for the purpose of signing the register. H« began to grow impatient, when a gentle knock was beard at the door, and one of them appeared as spokeman, and began with** bated breath and whispering humbleness ’’ the folio wing exqlanation : “ Sor, ” said he, “ aa’s vary sorry to tell ye that me and the the rest of us has been hevvin’ a lark wi’ ye, son Ye knaa, sor’ me and ina mate is but pitmen, and bein’ as we’re on the spree, we, tliow’t we mad hev a bit 0’ fun wi’ the priest, an the fact is the girls you’ve married tiv us is not wor la-ses. We’ve swopped, and want to knaw, sor. if ye will put it reet and mary us owner agen to wor an lasses." The clergyman, after angrily lecturing the man on the folly of su;h conduct, said lie was not sure that lie coUd reperfoim tiie ceremony as lequired, but suid lie would retire to consider the matter aud let them know in a short , time. He closed the door of the vestry, and begun to meditate on the best way of extricating the culprits from the puzzling predicament, when his reverie was broken b) someone again gently tapping at the door. It was the spokeman of the party, his face quite bright with an expression of relief and satisfaction. “Me and ina mute, sor,’’ (•aid he, “ Me and mu mate, sor,” said he, “and tiie woinen-people liev been tasking the thing ower amungst worseis, and we divvtiit want to itlveye oney maij trouble so, if ye givvent mind, sor, ive’U just Jet it top as d is.”