Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 469, 7 May 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

* This above all—fee thins own self bp true, And it must follow as the njjgbt the day Thon Cftaat hot than be false to any mao.' SIUKKSPKAUU. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 180!0, On Friday Messrs J. McNicol and (Jo. \yill hold a Ifve stock sale at Waitoa. The usual monthly meeting of Te Arolm Town Board, wjU be held on Saturday evening, The ordinary ninthly meeting of Qhinetmiri County Council (adjourned from 3rd inst.) will be held at Paero.l4 qh {Saturday next, commencing at 3. p.m. So far we have not hoard of any of our local sportsmen having m llOO very heavy * hags,’ although several have done very fairly. We \yould remind ntir Wniorongoqial friends, and nil others who can attend, of the entertainment to take pluco in Waiorongomai Public Hall this evening, The weather on Sunday laat was very wet and stormy; and towards evening and the eayly part of Sunday night the wind ble\y with great violence ; hut without doing ftcy damage worth recording, so far as we am aware. Qn Monday a spare blower ” (for smeliinff furua.PU purposes), the property of the T 0 Aro.hn S. and G, Mining Company, which ha s been lying at Waiorongoinai for soipe tim o past, was brought into Te Arolm and sent away to Adelaide. The t\yo«year-rold colt, Gatling (Nordon-feldt-Peiroleuse), which wus purchased us a yearling af Sylvia Rark sale, by Mr Q’Bnen for two hundred and sixty guineas, has just boep disposed of in Sydney by Mr O’Brien to Mr W» Gannon, for the handsome sum of two thousand guineas, The first ordinary meeting of the newly elected T 0 Arolm School Committee was held on Monday evening last. There was Up. correspondence to deal with, th o proceedings being of an entirely roipine character, only occupying a few minutes. Messrs Mensie and Aider were appointed a visiting committee for the current month; ftnd th o following accounts were passed for payment : Mrs Erasmus, £1 4d ; C. Ralcke, lss 3d ; 6. Robson, 2s. Sergeant Rmeraon’s seoond son, New-i man, aged fthout twelve years, met with a very nasty accident on Suturduy last. It appears th o lad got up oq one of his fathers horses (a ypry quiet animal) barebacked, in Alia paddock adjoining the Court Hpuse at Te Aroha, in order to give ft yo.qng brother, aged about four years a ride, and whilst so doing the little fellow who was sitting in front struck the horse pn the ear withq stick, whereupon the snipV‘l made a jjilmp and threw both boys off ; the elder fidtjhg with such force on his (eft »rm ft ß to dislocate the elbow, and break the bone of the arm about midway botweemtho elbow joint aqd shoulder* The younger lad fell" on his brother and escaped unhurt, The sufferer was sent by his parents to Mr Robson’s, and th o services pf Dr Copper were called in, who re* duped tl ie dislocation and bound up the arm in splints for the time being, pwtponr ing the permanent setting pf the boDe on account ftf tim severe swelling that iuid taken place. On enquiry yesterday wp Were pleased to b.ear'the patient is pro* grossing favourably ; and th o Doctor hopes to bo able to. set the broken a rip in the course of a day 0.r5.0, Private Inquiry Agent: Want a divorce* sir? Certainly, sir— certainly ! Any evidence yog u>ay require ready at the shortest possible notice !—Punch. Gladstone, in an article in the Cutholic Magazine on ’ Merry England,’ expresses his opinion in favour of a renewal of the practice of confession in England,—Row Zealand Mail, (

.Taking tilings't.'»o literally i< a fertile' cause oir'aniusing blunders, T\yo qristermongprs claiming proprietorship in on? donkey, wept 1 1 court to get the dispiit' l decided, A fter hearing a part of the evidence, the judge said they lisp! better f-ttle the cusp out nf jqourt during tfie adjournment for luncheon.- Upon ijie court re-opi>niiur the defendant tohi his Honour : t was all fight, tlie donkey was his. Turning to the plaintiff, the judge saw his personal appearance was altered f"r the worse, hut before he could put any questions, the defendant went on to say that they Imd found a quiet yard tq settle it in, ns his Honour had suggested. Hp had been rather rough on the plaintiff, but be couldn’t help it; they Imd only ha|f-an-hour t 1 settle it in, and the plaintiff proved a mush tougher customer than he looked to be. The explanation wfts conehisive if not qujte satisfactory tq the court, and the donkey became the prize qf the victor in tlie fight. At the Th«mos Warden’s Court on Thursday, during the hearing of the plaint lodged by Robert McWilliams v , Win. Otter and others (an reported in our last isßpe), Mr Miller, solicitor for the defence, asked his Worship’s ruling on the follow ing important legal point; He complained that the claim comprised four men’s ground, held as a registered c-aim under miners’ rights, and contended that at the time complainant laid the pluint he should have been the holder qf four miners’ rights, whereas he was only |n possession of one. As he was not the holder of four miners’ rights, Mr Miller maintained that complainant could not be placed in possession of the claim.—Mr Purclias, solicitor for plaintiff, replied, contending that 011 c miners’ light was sufficient to conqe into Court with, and that if the ground wus awarded to him, complainant could then take out the other throe rights. He had advised his client to adopt thin course immediately upon the completion of the case ip the event of the claim being awarded to him.—Uia Worship upheld Mr Miller's contention, and ruled that it was necessary for complainant to have four miners’ fights for the four men’s ground before he could he placed in possession of the claim in the event of non-working being proved. Edison prophesies that twenty-five years hepea electricity will have superseded horse power, and the horse will become a luxury, a toy, and a pet.