Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1890.

•This aboveall—to thins own self bo true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou const not than be false to any man.' Shakkspeark.

Tne monthly meeting of Ohinemuri Comity Council will be held at Paeroa on Saturday next, at 3 p.m. Colonel Fraser addressed his constituents at Thames on Friday evening last, and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks and ’Confidence. .5

A sitting of the liesidfent Magistrate's Court will be field at Paeroa on next Monday. for the purpose of revising thd electoral rolls of Oliinemuri County.

Messrs J. McNicol and Co. will hold their next live stock sale at Wuitoa on Friday next. , We would remind our readers of the entertainment in Waiorongomai Public Hall tLis evening. . The annual meeting of the Waitoa Licensing Committee will lie. held at Mori ins vi lie on Saturday next, at noon.

Mr Ja«. Clarke, of TV Arolia, has filed a petition to be adjudged a hmkrupt.

An entertainment hv tiro Te Arohn Dramatic Club will be given at an early date, in aid of the funds of Te A roha Public Library. As will be seen bv advertisement Messn* J. MeNieol and On. will sell hv public auction at Waiornnpomai on Saturday next, on account of Mrs Jenkins, dwelling house and land, horses, cattle, household furniture and effects, including excellent piano. MrG. L. Grant manager for the Bank of N.Z. of the Waitoa Estate (better known as Lark worth’s), leaves Waitoa on Fridav next, to take charge of the Te Mati Estate, East Coast, to which he has been transferred ; Mr Main, of Tamahere, Mr Grant’s successor, having taken over the management of Waitoa Estate. Mr Grant takes with him the best wishes of a large circle of friends in this district. For re-building the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, the following tenders were received :—Accepted, Price and Malcolm, £3582 19s. Declined: W. Pliilcox and Sen. Auckland. £3967; W. G. Webb. Wellington. £3993 19s 6d ; E. Morris. Auckland, £4370; Wrigtev and Mirtliewc, Auckland. £5367 ; H. J. Holder, Napier, £5569 6s. Miss Alleby, for some twelve months past teacher of Te A roha West school, having received six month’s leave of absence, left for her home on Monday last. At tlie monthly meeting of the Te Arohn West Sohool Committee, held on Saturday 31st, a resolution w«- carried unanimously, thanking Miss Allebv for the excellent manner in which she had conducted the school, and expressing satisfaction at the progress made by the scholars during her term of office.

The collie Christopher, owned bv Mr T. TT. Stretch Oimskiik, which was first in in the challenge class at the recent London Collie Dog Show, has been sold to Mr Mitchell Harrison, of the Chesnnt Hill Kennels, Philadelphia, for LIOOO, the highest price ever paid fora collie. Two years ago Mr Stretch purchased Christopher at the Kennel Club Show, London -for L6O-

At the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Monday last, Alexander Angus, committed from Paeroa Court on the charge of stealing a horse on 23rd of February last, the propertv of Walter Thorpe, was tried by jury, who brought in a verdict of Not Guilty, and ♦lie prisoner was discharged. " In the case against Frederick Colcord, committed for horse stealing from Paeroa, the jury brought in a return of no true bill. In the case of Edmund George, ju nr., committed for trial from Te A roha Court, on the chnreeof rape in connection with Katherine Young, his sister-in-law, at the time under fourteen years of age, the charge was altered to earnallv knowing. The caso has not yet been tried.

The sale of the Hohartville stud took place nt Richmond, New South Wales, on Thursday last, and was well attended. The total amount realised was 13.885 guineas, 9525 of which sum was paid for the mares, and 4360‘guineas for the sires. There was great competition for the Auckland-bred stallion Trenton (by Musket from the Goldshroueh mare Frailty). Bidding started at 500 guineas, and rapidly ran up to 3000 guineas, at which price he was secured by Mr W. R. Wilson, ttie owner of the St. Albans Stud (Victoria), and a director of the Te Aroha S. and G. Mining Company. The formation of so many bogus mining companies during the last year or two. and the consequent loss suffered by the investing public in England, hie resulted in the introduction of a bill into the British House of Commons defining the responsibilities of directors, and showing to what extent they are liable for the statements contained in prospectuses. The Bill certifies that every prospectus of a company and every notice inviting persons to subscribe for shares in any company shall be deemed to contain a guarantee by every director of such company at the time of the issue of the prospectus as well as by every person who hus authorised or is responsible for such prospectus. The directors are also to he held responsible for every statement or extract from any report of an engineer or expert whose report appears on tho prospectus. If, however, it can be proved by a director that he withdrew his consent l before the issue of the prospectus, that the prospectus was issued without his consent or authority, or that he had made every reasonable enquiry and examination into the statements contained in the prospectus, and hud reasonable grounds for believing they were true, under snch circumstances he is not held responsible for any false statements or misrepresentation contained in the prospectus. An effort, it is said, will be made to introduce a penal clause into the Bill providing imprisonment with hard labour for those who are originally responsible for the fraud and misrepresentation referred to. The Bill will also be retrospective in, character, so that those mine boomers of evil reputation who have been on the London market within the last year or two are likely to have a bad time of it.