Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1890.

‘ Thiß above all—to thine own Belf bo tru®, And it must.follow a 3 the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.’ ; . Shakespeare!

Mr A. Ji : Cadnian, M.11.R., will address his Ohinemuri constituents on Saturday evening, May 24, at Paeroa, Tenders are'invited for a fencing ‘contract, Lower Waitoa. See advt, in Hast Saturday's issue.; ! The weather for some days past [lias been cold, wet, in fact real wintry we B’lie'r Yesterday afternoon the rain regularly poured down in torrents for a considerable time. • .. ,t.r.v ■ >■;' ! In consequenceiof Queen’s Birthday year fallingonSaturday,Messrs J. McNicol and Co. will hold their next live stock and produce sale at Cambridge' to-morrow, 22nd inst. See advt. ' j The usual monthly meeting jthe Waharoa Band of Hope will be held in the school house, Waharoa, on next Saturday, evening, 24th inst., commencing at half-past seven. Good programme. We learn that the directors of the New Zealand Frozen Meat Company have decided to comply with the request-made by the Acclimatisation Society (and reported in our isstie of Saturday), and will in future decline to freeze pheasants for export frpm.Aucklapd,,, ,| j, | • : - i i\ Thaigold Veceived bjMlie Bintd of New Zsnland for thejnonth .of April was 34910 z I6d\vt, viz. .-'Bhn'tneb County, 14520 z 9dWt;’. Ohinemuri "Court)', 4lloz Isdwt ; Pinko. County, 530 z. Bd,wt ; Thames ’Borough, 15740 z idwf. ‘ ‘ 'I | ‘.j The post and telegraph office will jlfei closed on Monday next, the 26th May., (instead of on'tlie'~24th, Queen’s Birth--', day).. All mails usually.despatched jon. Monday, will be made up at 8 p.rn. -on Saturday 24thT Xate fetters -bearing ah.< extra? pennypostage [ stamp,- ablate feep may be pbsted up 1 to 7^a in. on 2Gtli- \ in' At tlie meeting of ,the j Cro,\yn:-Lands Board in Auckland’6rf Thursday, Mr \V;iA. Murray, applied for Blocks IVg VL, and XT., Awaroa’Sarvey Bistrict;' .18 unsurveyed land. Mr Reuben 'Parrapplied for permission ;to transfer liis perpetual lease, section 9q, Block XL, l’e Aroha. to .Tam.'-s Parr.-s Everything was in order, and the'application was granted on payment,b£ arrears, L 3 9s.

i : : j I Mrs B:\dlev lms just hurl several alteraI‘ioi.s and additions made to tins 'muse in. Bridge street, reeent'v purchased hv her i'lVim ,VrM. Byrne. Tiifael the place lias been so eribirupd nod’impvovciil'kp to‘>lenV-.e . but little trace of what, it originally ; was. 'l'b.e lioive' should now prove ainoKfenmfortuhle residence. Tbe alterations were carried, out by Mr J, B. Meuthcot >. Our Waharoa correspondent reports that 'Mr J. Finnyrtv (a well-known local resident of that district), lias met with an accident. It appears that while at work at Fallon's* railway contract, be was- severely, - bitten on the, arm by a mare lie was guiding. He returned to his liomb-on Saturday night, ;l»ut by .Sunday'morning li js ann became so , painful tliat lie fpsoly.e<kto go to ILuniltoq ‘' to obtain medical advice, 'mid 1 has not returned-from thence as yot. A maiit named James/Adamson' was brought from Paefoa to Thames on Friday last by .Constable. Mitchell, having been arrested on a charge of lunacy, Adamson is a resident of Block 27, .Thames, and has been mentaljy ailect^ilyfoi;,some time paßt*; Two days previous to bis/arrest lie loft bis borne, and-hnd been' tnis. ing till Friday, when l a -was found in tlm -Old'Temnri River with the.water up to his waist.' He was brought up' before* AI f 'Northcro'ftj R.M., at Thames Police Court on Satur-c rlaj, and aftei tbe medipal testimony- of Drs Williams and Callan had been heard, lie was committed to the Avondale Lunatic Asybni.c' 1 ‘ ' ~ ; y .' A <’°rv large congregation assembled at the Presbyterian service’ in :-Te Arohn Public Il.ail on Inst Siiijday evening, every seat being occupied . |Hev T, A. -Nor,fie, preached a funeral sermon on the occasion with reference to the late Mrs-J-. A. Cochrane’s death on the Monday previous. From the text “. Blessed are the dead who die in the .Lord ” (Rev. 14 Clmp. 13vi)'the preacher delivered a very earnest discourse, in the course of which he referred in feeling terms to the late Mrs Cochrane, who had been so unexpectedly called home ; on the necessity of all being prepared for death, which was robbed of its bitterness and sting in the ease of those who had accepted Salvation through faith in Christ. The service throughout was a most impressive one. A public meeting was held in MrShepr. - herd’s store, Karangnhnke, on Satuaday aftern >on last/ of all those interested in forming a branch of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association of Australasia. - ,There was, a large muster of miners present, constituting a good representative meeting of tire working minors of the district, MrC. F. Mitchell was called to the Chair, and explained the object for which" theyliad assembled. After some discussion it was agreed to proceed to take down the names of those intending to join, hs it needed at least twenty full members to constitute a branch. In a very sboif time there was over the required number, of names entered, and it was then decided to proceed with the election of officers, which' was done by open. voting,on the voices. Mr S. C. ( Farmer was elected president ; Mr Edwin Edwards, secretary, and Mr William Comes, treasurer. Stewards were elected for Karangahake, Owhnron, Wailii, Waiteknnri, and Marototo. It was arranged, that a cheque for the necessary amount be at once forwarded to the A.M. A. head quarters, to. bring the branch into line, and it was 'also resolved to hold the next meeting at Owharoa, and advertise the necessary information for intending members. A vote of thanks to the Chair concluded one of the most enthusiastic meetings we have had in Ohinemuri for a long time.—Tribune. . The Investors’ Guardian, an influential monetary paper, has a leading; article founded on the late address of the Pie-'ident of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, which has been issued in pamphlet form. It says .—“ Some despondent minds, a shqrt time ago, seemed to think that these conditions, would boreversed, and to apprehend that general ruin was in store for New Zealand, because some adventurous local 'merchants had overtraded, and. the banks had thereby been temporarily embarrassed,-as if these episodes would not be certain to occasionally recur in every new region where inen had courage and energy; enough to face uncertainty in their eagerness for the development of-their country. The article shows that the statistics ,of r.ccent Ne.w-: j Zealand trade prove that the depression is ■j passing: away.:-. It thus -> concludes : “There can be no reasonable doubt that its fine climate,the richness of much of its soil, as shown by the high average yield of wheat coupled with the well-known fact that New Zealand stands first of all the Colonies in-.-its facilities for sheep producing, renders this Colony most attractive to fanners and emigrants from the agricultural classes. The augmented demand from our masses for New Zealand mutton cannotfail to increase this tendency, which i will . receive . further impetus- from the great mining wealth of New Zealand,jthetdevelopment of which isyet in its infancy.” The consuming power of the United

Kingdom is ever on the increase, and the returns for the eight months ending 3lst August, 1889, as compared'with the first eight months of ''IBBB, show this in .a remarkable manner. FrbmthVse, as given below, it will be seen that except in sheep and lambs, fresh pork, and cheese, there has been an increase in all kinds of food imported. T -e falling-off in pork and cheese was but slight ; in sheep rind lambs very considerable. In the time specified tliero .were 273,717 oxen and bulls imported, - against J9.7,15(j last year; 42,804 cows,,, against 37,1.47 ; ,37.231 calves, against,27,79o ; 379,308 sheep and lambs, against 610,940; and 18,040 pigs, against 17,344. !’Tile value of the dead meat i’rni potted in ,'fhe same period was L 12,338,747, iigainst,'L9,§4G,676 ; bacon being imported: to the 1 ‘ yqlue of v L 4,905,175,?. .agains't L4.245,Q77'; saited beef, L 248,969, against L 227.449 ,;;ir,es,b beef, L 1,883,947, against Ll, Haiti?,, L1j799,298, against 'L1,415,640 . meat, Balted,,.;or - freMi, Ll47;§97.:againstL7B,63B;'meat,;pi:eserv:ed tliari by sa^tingpi, L. 949,063, agui'nst 206, , ,-against - L1',153,649 salt,poi-k,' L 292, and' ireish pbrk, .1^236,104,/ag!iinsitr : L255i516,'. Of, butter the value "was Xi 6,863,338, against Tj5,9i6',121‘; margarine, L 2,434,905, against ;L2|09| ? 526 cheese,.^2,Bol, ; 763,,.against, : ii2;^89 ( 223 '; eggSj.., ,L2,Q7£f,59.7, ii against-' 1iL987,'848; and poultry, H 238,127, fig.-iinst 'L192,10t.“ The value of. cpru.imported was L 32,907,070, compared with L30,489,409 last year ; and the value, (of the live animals.,ehtMtier;)ted ?ibjye ,iwas LG,428,422.iigainst L5,226,777/ : tiie value of those imported last year. , . i - 1.. : ’

Mr D..,MdL; Wallace, of Waiwrongomai, inventur anil, patentee of the Handy Wire Strainer, -lms re.een.tjy'.| erect-id all the necessary,' machinery’ for manufacturing the same.'in large quantities. The invention is siTnpi.’c’ty itself, small enough to he easily carried in an ordinary coat-pocket, and vet witliall capable of most.effici-mtly and rapidly straining [up any reasonable length of .wire when applied. Wo are not surprised to learn orders are coming in from all part; 1 .; and the patent should prove a very lucrative,one to the inventor ; as these strainers are bound ...to. sell well where ever introduced. A strike in. the Irish bacon trade bad proved a vet;y serious business,', involving' a’-loss of .something like £l2-0,000 to the city of Limerick alone, while seveneighths of the men on strike were on the point of < starvation, owing to. the prolonged .lockout, the result of their own action. - L’lneriek pig merchants were attending the principal fairs, purchasing hundreds of pigs for shipment to England'. Ah'!offer of increased wages lmd been made, but as the merchants had received no notice of the proposal being accepted they had agreed not to be bound to abide bylhe offer, after a certain-period- . Talking; about the Comstock, it is extraordinary tliat the general public should hold two: entirely wrong ideas about it. The' one wrong notion is, that the Cornstock is/or rather was, like the Broken Ilill, purely-a silver lode ; the other is that the .Comstock is worked out. The Sydney /Daily Telegraph; the other day drew an .a\yfhl lesson of warning to those prone to speculate in Broken Hill stock from the “fact,” amongst others, that in so few years even the Camstoek silver lode had been worked out. In the first place the value of the gold.- produced from the C/mstrick is-to the value of the silver as 5 to 2. In the second plaee, to show tliat the lode is not worked o\it, it only has to be mentioned that in 1888 it producing 6,000,000 dollars, and in 188 b 5,250,000 dollars ; while' tliis/year, when they have plenty of water for ore reducing purposes (which they did not have Last year) the yield is likely to exceed 7,000,000 dollars. The Victorian newspapers are jubilant over the price at which the new Victorian loan has been floated in the London market, which is proof that the terms are better than were expected- But the adverse criticisms vehicle have been made by the London financial Press should convey a caution/ even, tpJVlr Gillies and a thoughtloss Parliament, Piling up, debt at the rate of a iniflion and a half a;year, even when the money is expended upon reproductive works, is quite sufficient for a community, no matter how prosperuus' tliev may be, of a million souls. But, when the pace is accelerated as it is this year—or rather last year, for probably it will, turn out that a big lump of the money has been expended in advance—from one million and a half to live millions and a Inilf, 'even reckless people must feel uneasy and begin to look grave. it is like setting a stone rolling down hill. At firstiit rolls gently, and it is possible to keep it under control. But unless some sort of break is applied, and its progress is. governed at will, the speed increases, and we know how it rolls to tbe bottom. It is thus with us. Each million means an increased yearly interest to be paid, and if that amount ba suddenly increased by an unwise application of the - multiplication table we shall:accumulate sorrow tliat we shall Juive to sup with a pewter ladle instead of an elegant silver spoon.

A conference was held the oilier day in Christchurch to consider county matters and the wOrking of'the local Government system in the Canterbury district, it dealt with the water-race question, Hospital and Charitable Aid matters, and the relation of local governing bodies to. one another. A motion to s .'abolish . licensing committees and transfer their,;functions to the local bodies - was lost on the voices. The fol lowing very practical , resolutions ; were carried :■ “ That Government be urged to take some steps to induce the adjacent colonies to render every assistance possible in forcing the return of men who have deserted their wives and families. “ That the law be altered to enable local bodies to recover costs and expenses from the fathers of illegitimate children at any time, whether . the) child-' be alive or dead, and whenever till child can be found.”' “ Tliat this Conference recommend to the Government the advisableness of providing some means under which incorrigible drunkards and idlers Can be dealt with, and provide some means by which such persons can he compelled to work and do something towards their own support.” “That in any future legislation with reference to the administration of charitable aid,, all contributing local bodies should be represented on the Board, as .under the present Act.”. “That in the opinion of this conference, the basis of. taxation for hospitals and charitable aid should be the basis..of the property-tax,-and not as at present, it being of the nature of a class tax.”

•It has been suggested (saj-.s the Argus’ London correspondent in his letter of March 7th) that in the not-distant future the greater plait of the journey from London to Melbourne will be performed by rail. Sir Bd ward Watkin, of Channel Tunnel fame, is developing a scheme by which it will be possible to travel from London to Kurrachee by rail, excepting over the Straits of Gibraltar. The trains will be conveyed entire over the Stiaits to Tangier, and there deposited on a railway to run via Algeriu 'and Tunis to Cairo, thence through Byria to Basva, in the Persian Gulf, ijnd thence dovvn the eastern shore of.the Crulf, until it connects .with The Irifiian’systein. ;. Sir Andrew Clarke is! interesting' himsjelf in asulternMive route. Existing lines will carry his traffic,to (Bjjtiie, on the Caspian; and from/thence he Vppljl constructUfailjyay jthrtmgh Persian, icrmory fo Askabad. -.Taie Russian system would me used, to Bokhara, and . from .there tot the rho4t northei'ly pdint’ of the Indian railway system a ; new. line would Jiaye ,t'o be‘ feirfneir/ ,< prom, Calcutta/tlie>jprojected., 'TnVlo-Bu miese-Majayan line would be y utilised, and Sir Chai;les Warren is seekipg permission to'construct a line across 'the island.-of to [the. ToboCe Straits. By this means. London and Singapore may gap.between. .jSingpppre and-yPprt- Darwin must- byf/steainers, tut- it is held that with this main break railway communication may be established before very many years' tietwecq London and Melbourne -and the,-rest’ of'the' Australian capitals. . •-*’