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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 478, 7 June 1890, Page 2

There will be n sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Paeroa on Monday next.

The monthly meeting of the Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain Board will, be held Lids evening'at eight o'clock. . To-day Messrs J, MoNieol and Co. hold a clearing sale - at YVuiorongomui/ on aocour.t of Mrs Jenkins. See advt.

On Monday next Mr J. Craig will sell by public auction at Te Alpha, householdfurniture’ arid effects, etc;', oh account of MrC.S. Pyne. See advt. The next ordinary monthly meeting, of the Piuko‘County Qqtineil,' will be held, at Cambridge on Saturday, t4tii inst-, at 11 a,in.

The ua! fortnightly sitting of the Warden’- and Resident Magistrate's Court will be .held at Te Aroha on Tuesday next, commencing at 9 a.m. A new gold mining Company for Australasia has lieenrforiVied ifvSbotlanafiWith’' a capital of £250,000. . The annual meeting of the Te'-Aroha, Licensing Committee will lie. held in the Court House, Te Aroha; at iidon on Monday next. ... , v,

Bishop Dwyer, of Limerick, has ...with-, drawn from his priests the; flower Jo give absolution to boycolters.

Tile report that Sir Julius Vogel was coming out to edit the New- Zealand. Times (recently,, purchased by Captain Baldwin), ia contradicted from-Welling-ton. - ■ ; •

At Thames the influenza epidemic ebows no sign of diminution. Nearly' e-'ery mine lias a considerable proportion of employees absent through sickness. Happily tire disorder is more inconvenient than serious.

The Resident Magistrate at Timarti bus decided that a station manager, in the ali enee of an agreement, is entitled to three month’s notice, or pay, on dismissal. The plaintiff bad boon, paid ii 120 a-year and found, and sued also for three mb itil's' board, but this was disallowed. . A meeting of the Te Ar<4»a Public Domain Board was "held iiC-Mi'PaVlftV' office yesterday afternoon Present Messrs Puviit (chairman), Johnson, and Dobson.—rMinutes of the previous monthly meeting were read and continued. —The Secretary stated that he bad directed the attention of Mr O’Toole to tire, tact that bis fence was erected on the public reserve,-. and that Mr O’Toole had promised to have, it shifted next week.—Tenders were, opened for leasing the reserves, but none’ of the tenders were . considered eligible, and it was resolved that the mutter-be left in abeyance until a suitable offer is received. s .

We beg to acknowledge receipt of Messr- S, Vaile and Son’s,new list of pro ' perties for sale or lease. The cataloguenumbers close on one hundred page-, carefully classified, with index, so that intending purchasers can readily refer to any particular description of property, or district, Several pages are devoted to the. publication of statistics and information of a generally useful nature respecting the colony.

We direct special attention to a most important clearing sale to be held by Messrs J, McNicol and Co,, on Friday next, 13tn inst, at Waitoa', on account of Mr J. D. Adnins. The property to be disposed of includes a choice liit of one hundred grown steers, forty-nine pure bred and half-bred Polled Angus cattle, sixt\— e\en pure Leicester rams, over two thousand ewes in lamb, horses, implements, valuable.household furniture, etc., etc. The advertisement states the property will be sold without reserve,' and there should be a very large company at so important a sale of really excellent stock, etc. A meeting of the Te Aroha Cemetery Trustees was hold yesterday afternoon at ■Mr Pavitt’s office. Present : Messrs Puvitt (chairman), Dobson, and Johnson.— Minutes of ibe previous monthly meeting were read and confirmed. — The Secretary intimated that he had written to the. Colonial Secretary re alteration of i-y----laws, and had received a reply requesting that copies of Jljo newspaper containing the original public notification of same be forvarded He also, reported that the cleariag of tile ground was now in progress, and that- one gentleman had generously offered to plough the ground, and that another had given a donation of one hundred trees, to he plunted at his cost.—The Trustees resolved to expend a further sum of L 4 in planting and improving the ground. They will be glad to receive further donations of trees us the planting season is now on. Mr Clarke, the unfortunate man who lost his arm by an accident in the Junction' Mills, P-u-roa, has commenced an action to recover £J,OOO damages against Mr Gibbons, the owner of the mill, oh the grounds that unskilled persons were employed to lace the belt, the breaking of which caused theaccident,and that the mill was managed bva person of insufficient knowledge. It appears that when the belt came loose Clarke went to the assistance of a man narrihd Bell to: readjust-it, and it- was on the way that he was caught by the loose belt; Clarke says that Bell was not skilled enough to lace the-belt, and .called him (Clarke) to assist him. But Bell denies this.; The manager of the rriill happened to l e at liis breakfast or absent for a few minrites at the time of the accident.: -i'i 1-,

; The serious, “ creep” that ' Has 1 taken place at. the mine of the British’Broken Hill |Proprietary: Company' Has had the effect of causing a special meeting to be held to consider the matter. A letter from the mining manager gave a detailed account of the position of affairs at the mine, and offered suggestions for itsfuture development. It was stated by the directors that between £70,000 and £IOO,OOO wi uhl be r equired to put the property in working order again, and it was suggested that a communication should beforwardtd to the Loudon directors recommending that tjie money should be raised on'debentures. The si in eiolderswere not pre.| ft ;ed lo give a decision at .once on a matter involying the expenditure of such un enormous: amount: of; money,- and the, meeting accordingly 'adjournedfor a fortnight: in order to enable shareholders tdlhiiik over the matter. When the legal manager, Mr Kni»X, .reaches : Lc-hdoti'yhe , will consult with the London board oh the <• - , ; , , * ■■' f,,! ' ; ■ . ,

The T<> A rolm M-i oriie Lodge, which was nriginallv constituted under the Grand Ledge of Scotland, lias now severed its connection with the Scottish Constitution, and will in future rank under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. At an Emergency Meeting held on Thursday evening lust,* it'was finally closed sis a Scotch Lodge, and re-opened under dispensation from Brother Henry Thomson, W.GIML,of the recently constituted New Zealand Grand Lodge. i

A trial. crushing .of ten tons of quart r : from the Nymph iind Mermaid- claims. Tararu, Thames, owned bv Roberts and party, was made at the Cambria battery last week, with -the result lOoz 6dw;t« of gold was obtained, .worth £2 15-< per nz. This does not include the tailings, which have yet to be treated.- This, mine-is situated over three miles beyond the Sylvia mine; Tiiri'rn Greek, and is reached byatrack formed 1 yß : >beits and party,who have to p-’f.-k the quartz as-far as thefmined r->ad. They cunplain t ! >at the County .Council off rs very it tie encouragement to opening up new ground. They state the Council h is promi ed them five pounds towards forming the track, against that tliev have already paid sixty pounds irt vent, besides gold duty.” There are three other claims in the same locality, one of which tlie Tmocrial Treasury recently obtained 1211)8 of picked stone. Roberts and party’s reef is oyer six feet wide. The district is very prom?sjn<r, and is likely to turn out a . good one; " The Nymph and Mermaid has already had a consideralde amount of work done on it. No, l lode lias been,driven‘33 feet on the line of -reef ; they have, put in another level below whicli: givesM.hnnt 80 of hacks. No, 3 drive is in 83 feet ; No. 4 drive, 55 feet ; N<>, 5, 48 feet. Tlin winze in No .-.l is 47 feet, and in'No, 2 the winze is 25 feet. This is in addition to a large amount of surface prospecting. The usual monthly meeting of the Te Ar-dia Sell >ol Committee was held on Monday evening in the schou 1 house. Present R-v F. G. Evans (.R Arman) Messrs Ilott, W. Hetlirington, Menzie, Ilca'tlicote, and Ahier, Minutes of the pre*yionn monthly meeting were read and confirmed. Messrs Ahier and Menzie, Visiting Commit tee for t.,e past montlqrepor red having arranged, with C. Johnson, brjekiaver, tq' r Itiy. ii'moat of concrete over the bricks ’ih’thfe sytiool porch, and to also lav some concrete at" the back of the teachers residence, for-vhe.• s.inn,of L 5 : Also that they had arranged with J. Robinson tocleurthe drain at the back of the school house,, l-emove large stories from walk. etc, for 16s. The head teachers monthly report allowed the number of scholars ‘on r the i-(Ul. fiir , Alav- J to ...be 182; the average jittehdarice 128.6; and that Friday, May. 2 3rd, 1 1 nd been observed as a holidayin hoimnriof Queen’s Birthday. The head teacher reported that the blackboards required re-painting, and it was decided to communicate with the Board of Education oh the subject.. Messrs Ilott and Heth~ rington were appointed Visiting Commit toe Tos- .the current month. The following accounts were passed for payment : C. Johnson (concreting), £5 ; J. B. Johnson (sundry redairs). 3s ; G. Lovegro've (glazing), 2* Gd.; J. Robinson (clearing diain, etc.), 16s; J,. A. Cochrane.(repairs to pump). 2s 6d .