Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 463, 16 April 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1890.

* Thia ftboT® all—to thin® own aolf ho traa, &nd it must follow as the night the day Thou cauat not then be false to any man.' SIUKHSPHARE.

The English Mail via ’Frisco closes at the Jocal post office on Friday next at 8 p.n>. Messrs Farmer and party, Owharoa, last week cleaned up a crushing at the Smilo of Fortune mine, for 64 ounces gold. Mr E. Kersey Cooper is at present engaged in getting up a petition to lay before parliament next session, praying for abolition of'the gold duty. Steam was again got up at Mr Coulthard’s ilaxmil! on Monday, and work is now going on ’as steadily as before the recent accident.

Attention is directed to the sale at Churchill on Friday, the 18th irist., when Messrs J. McNicol and Go. will dispose of a lurge number of horses, cattle, sheep aru pigs ; also fanning implements, etc. The copious rainfall of the last ten days, together with the mild temperature of the atmosphere, has given a splendid start to grass and to root crops. If it is not followed too quickly by frost, there is every likelihood of au abundant supply of winter feed.

The ordinary monthly meeting of th e Te Aroha Town Board, which should have taken place on Saturday evening last, lapsed lor want of a quorum, and was adjourned till this evening. Messrs E. Gallagher (chairman); and K. Harris were the only‘two members who put in an appearance on Saturday. Mr Vv\ Littlejohn has now two tons of ore out. The ore has been tested by Mr James McConnell, manager of the Cassell Work, Karangaliake, aud his test is a value, of JLSUU (five hundred pounds) per ion. The ore. will be treated at tho Cassell Works ; but. as it must be crushed dry, it cannot be sent on during the present heavy rain.—Tribune.

A meeting of footballers is to be belt! tor-night to take;steps towards forming a local football club, in other places where chibs exist meetings are being held and arrangements made for the coming campaign. W e will be glad to see the meet ing to-night result satisfactorily, and hope a club will be formed strong enough to produce a team capable of holding its ground against ali-coiners. It is now stated that Mr A. J. Cadma 1 * will stand for the Thames district at th e next general election, If Mr Cadmau has ■ decided ,to do so, his chance of being returned ought to be good us the constituency is almost exclusively a mining one, and among' the present goldfields' members there is not one who, hus striven more zealously to p'rbinbte the prosperity of the mining districts than he has done, i ‘ * i The mineral traffic on the Greymouth section of railways for the four weeks ending Ist March, .1899 r >V““,15.084 tons, being an increase 0f'4,467 tons; on, the same period, fur 1889. On tho Westport iectmn the mineral traffic foj* the saiue fourj "weeks" of this was * 18,069 -tons* against 10,720 tons la t year, an increase of 7;339 'fohs for the four-weekly period, rAnother pioneer colonist lias passed away in the" of Mr Allan Kerr Taylor, of Mount Albert, Auckland, who suddenly on j Monday evening while talking to liis coachman. Ile, wa» fourth wn.i'f General Taylor, and came to ilie colony with his father over 40 yeurh l rtg*v t His. brother, Mr Williams limes I Taylor, died suuUeniy only a itW weeks | I' «■£*»• I

The net profits of the Union Bank for the last half-year were LI 11,106, admitting of a dividend at the rate of 14 per cent, per annum. A *

The Bankruptcy Bill has been provisionally drafted, and will come before the 'Cabinet 'next month, ua will the knew Bankruptcy Bill, which will be in the rechauffe of last session's Bill, but such modification provided on the recommendation of the various Chambers of Commerce as the Government deem it advisable to adopt. It is thought Ministern are excessively ’ sanguine of- getting (Yen this measure through.? A few statistics hearing on the condition of Ireland'.will not be out of place in the present juncture of affairs. ’’They are 1 supplied by Sir Henry James,-who, when addressing his constituents last December, set forth how, since the dire fatriine in 1847, the number of good houses in Ire land has increased from 40,000 to G 0 ,00,0 { the number occupied by the better class of farmers and tradesmen has increased from 266,000 to 422,000 ; while the,number of bad houses has diminished from 533,000 to 384,000, and the number of mere hovels lias decreased from 491,000 to 40,000. This is proof at any rate of material progress under a rule that is sought to be shown as inimical to the best interests of the country, ‘'Recently a number of the principal resi dents of Geraldine iret by invitation at the store of Messrs N. Dunlop and Co. to test tlre results of a new process for preserving milk for exportation that has been discovered by Mr W: C. Greig, of Musselburgh, Dunedin. The milk is packed in hermetically sealed/ins in almost the same state as when it co,tries fresh from the cow. The sample tested had been tinned over three months, and when opened it was pronounced by Dr Fish, who conducted the test, to be perfectly sweet and good. A samph was handed round, and with the exception of a .slight taste as of having been boiled, it would be difficult to detectit from fresh milk, The cream it contained had sornethingvfthe appearance of butter, owing, no doubt;-to the travelling, but when pouied in f o tea or coff*e it dissolved, and the slightly boiled taste of the milk seemed to disappear almost entirely. Mr Greig is sanguine of excellent profits being realised by the starting of factories for the canning of milk by this method and exporting it to London and elsewhere.

The estimated, population of the colony on December 31st last,exclusive of Maoris, was 620,279. On the same dato in 1888 the population was estimated at 607,380, rind the Registrar-General puts the increase; during the year at 12,899. This is made up of excess of births over deaths, 12,685 ; excess of arrivals over departures, 214. The Maori population according to the census of 1886, tlmn which no more recent information is available, was 41,969, giving the total population of Now Zeuland as 662,248,- Of these 354,611 are maids, and 307,637 females. During the year there were 15,392 arrivals, and 15,178. .departures.; 5047 persons came from New South Wales, and 7043 went there ; 3275 came from the United Kingdom, and 2039 left for there ; from Victoria the arrivals were 5532, und the departures 4748. December of course shows the greatest number of arrivals, 2655, which waa:100 more than in November, though "November bended all the other months. March and April were trie favourite months for leaving the colony, just over 1700 each. November was the only month in which the departures fell below 1000. p: » In conducting a large or small businesr, good health is an important consideration Indigestion is at the root of most men’s misfortune ; an active liver is about the best capitui a business man cun have. With the ambitious, the great boon of good health is often overlooked until some organ is broken down, beyond hope of resuscitation, and then comes the trials and suffering which bring so many business men to premature graves. After cleanliness in person, a well-cooked meal should be considered next in importance, eaten at regular hours slowly and with proper digestion, with company if possible, arid if not, a look into the paper or a good book is an excellent substitute.- v Exercise to and from meals tends to the development of muscle, and relief* of mind from cares and responsibilities which so often oppress. Above all, have pleasant words for all you meet, and look with appreciation on whatever you come in contact. An hour’s recreation of this kind is worth a dose of medicine, or a moral lecture from a critical friend. It brings the iuentui and physical man back to his work with restored energy and clearer faculties, with a feeling that **life is worth living.’*! Where is the surplus ? (says the AlUs-. tralian Exporter.)' Don’t think (it says) we allude to the. in the Treasury.; nothing of the'kind The surplus we mean is the so-called surplus supply of Victorian butter and fruit, which, in consequence of the bonus schemes of the Minister of Agriculture, is being placed on the .London market. I Those exported articles from our shores are being sold there at—butter from lOd to Is per lb, fruit at fully half the pride paid for it here." At the present time aught approachingto really, prime butter is fetching in Melbourne fronv2s Gd'to 3s per lb, thus placing this excellent and necessary article of food entirely out of the reach of poor householders to obtain. In a country such as tliis, with soil particularly 1 adapted to the.growth of every kind, to think that fruit should be retai led/a ti prices which make it a luxury, is shameful. At Mildura; lemons are fetching 6d each, an. importation, too, from Lisbon, whilst the: produce of this colony is retailed in Londomat half that figure; A greater dearth of butter and fruit has not been known in .Victoria for years, and that there is ho just cause for it being so cannot fail to arouse the indignation of customers. j