Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri AND News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 482, 21 June 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri AND News UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890.

* This above all—to thine own self be tree, And it must follow as the night the day Thou canet not then be false to any man. 1 Shakkspkari.

To-day Messrs J. McNicol and Co. bold a sale of live stock,* produce, etc., at Cambridge. The usual fortnightly sittings of the Warden’s and Resident Magistrate’s Courts, Te Arolia, will be held on Tuesday next, at 9 a.m. The Wesleyan and Presbyterian services to be held in this district to morrow, will be found duly advertised in our columns to-day, as usual. Mr John Quinlivnn, a well-known resident of the Thames and Ohinemuri, died at Paeroa on Tuesday afternoon of apoplexy and bronchitis. The Waitoa Road Bourd invite tenders for clearing übout a mile and a half of Johnson’s Creek, und also for claying part of Grattan’s road, near Te Arohu.

The telephone lire from Morrinsville to Lichfield has been completed ; also a branch line from Oxford of about three miles to the Oko oire Springs. Thelir.es will be open for the transmission of messages in a few days. Messrs Kelly and Pollen, contractors for the formation of tiie Gorge Road Devia lion, Karangahake, are putting the finishing touches to their contract. It bus been a tough job and they deserve credit for the way in which they have carried out the work.

As will ho seen by advertisement a meeting of settlers and others interested in the establishment of a ‘creamery’ at Waihou. will be held in the Palace llot-1, To Arolni. this evening at eight o’clock; We trust there will bo a largo and representative attendance of those interested in tin's matter.

At the Pinko Count} 7 Council meeting on Saturday last, a subsidy of £75 for the current year to Te Aroha Town Board, cost of maintaining the main County road within the Town District was included in tho estimates submitted by the Finance Committee and adopted by the Council. The estimates also included £IOO for maintenance Thames 1 Waikato main road (Waitoa Riding), and £230 for Te Aroha and Lichfield road (i e., from Te Aroha Town Districtbounderjl through and Patete ®).

We would remind our readers of the entertainment to be held in Te Aroha Public Hull on next Friday evening in aid of the funds of the District Library. Preparations having been in progress for some considerable time past for the occasion and a most attractive progrnme has been prepared, the whole to conclude with a dance. The Public Library is an insti - tution that deserves the hearty support oi every local resident, and as its funds are at low ebb, we trust their will be a bumper house on the occasion.

We direct special attention to the very important sale of horses Messrs J. McNicol and Co. will hold at Hamilton on Thursday next. A very large nurr.bcr of entries for this sale have already been made, including many first-class backs, etc., particulars respecting which will be found on reference to our advertising columns. Messrs McNicol and Co. notify eighty good light harness and draught horses, also some good weight carrying hacks wanted at this sale.

In a previous issue we referred to the very satisfacto r y sale of live and dead stock held on Friday of last week, by Messrs J. McNicol and Co. on behalf of Mr J. D. Adams, of Kereone, Waitoa. The following are some of the prices realised : 657 two tooth ewes, 14s 6d each ; 502 four-tooth ewes, 15s ; 1130 four-tooth ewes, 15s ; 100 wether lambs, 6s ; 630 wether lambs, 5s 9d ; 923 ewe lambs, 6s lid ; 92 merino ewes, 5s ; Lincoln rains, 26s to 27s each ; turnip steers, from £3 Is to £4 13s ; small steers, £1 15s to £2 5s ; shorthorn heifers, £1 lls each ; shorthorn calves, mixed sexes, I3s ; halfbred polled' Angus steer calves, £1 6s ; halfbred polled Angus heifer calves, £1 ; two purebred polled Angus cows, 10 guineas each ; four purebred polled Angus heifers, £7 6s each ; 25 halfbred Angus heifers, £3 3s each ; Angus bulls, £lO and £6 each ; draught horses, £i2 to £l6 10s. MrTlios. Bradley returned on Tuesday last from his recent trip to Sydney with a shipment of over twenty carefully selected hacks and carriage horses, Mr Bradley informs us lie disposed of all his shipment of horses at satisfactory prices, and that there is a strong demand for good hacks on the other side, but they must have quality ; this being indispensible if high prices are to be obtained. It is important the farmers and settlers generally should steadily bear this fact in mind in connection with their horse breeding. More care in the selection of mares is greatly needed. Many appear to think so long as they obtain the services of a good thoroughbred horse they have done all that is necessary, but this is a great mistake. It is essential for the breeding of high price hacks, the mare possess a fair amount of quality as well. Mr Bradley had a rapid and excellent passage home by the Mararoa, leaving Sydney on Thursday evening at 5 p.m, reachiug Auckland at*7 p.m on Monday, and Te Aroha Tuesday afternoon via Thames.

A petition from the ratepayers of the Totara Riding of the Thames County, to be submitted to the House of Represents tives at the coming session of Parliament, on the subject of representation in the County Council, has been drawn cpj and is now in course of signature. They. quote the following figures in order to show that the riding is not represented as it should be, as to either the rateable values or number of ratepayers in proportion to the other ridings :—Hastings: Rateable value, L 25,870 ; 77 ratepayers, 1 member. Waiotahi : Rateable value, L 2926 ; 122 ratepayers, 2 members Kauseranga : Rateable value, L 30,394 ; 329 ratepayers, 2 mnmbers. Parawai : Rateable value, L 33,069 ; 118 ratepayers, 1 member. Totara : Rateable value; L 78,854 ; 154 ratepayers, I member. The petition further states that two attempts have been made to obtain justice from the County Council, but on both occasions they were unsuccessful, and being aware that there is no legal power by which they can cause the Council to comply with the provisions of the Counties Act, the petitioners respectfully request the House to take their case into their favourable consideration, and grant them such relief as they may deem fit.

The new education code (writes the London correspondent of the Argus) promises well. It makes great concessions all round. The next extra subjects for which grants are allowed include laundry work for girls, German, navigation, bookkeeping and shorthand. Manual training and physical exercises are provided for, whilst managers are to be absolutely unfettered in regard to the classification of scholars. They may classify just as they think best, placing a child ic. different classes for different subjects, and even traning him differently in the three It’s and in the class subjects respectively. Percentages, payment by results, the merit grants, and all the exceptional cases so harassing to teachers, are. abolished, and in their plase a simple but liberal scale of grants is to established. Many radical changes long demanded were made in the regulations affecting teachers and the staff, greatly to ♦he advantage of these persons, and altogether the schoolmaster and mistress, present and to come, should bo highly pleased. Sir William Hart Dyke has scored at last.

A pub’ic meeting in connection wi.h the Te Aroha Band of Hope will be held in t.lie To Aroha Public Kail on next Monday evening, commencing at half past seven. As| lend id programme has been ai ranged for the occasion, including songs, dialogues, recitations, readings, etc,, etc., and we have no doubt there will be a large attendance. At the last monthly meet’ng of the Auckland Chain her of Commerce, Mr A. Porter moved the adoption of the report of the Gold Mining Committee, which was .as follows That existing legislation with regard to mining certificates under the Mining Act, 18.86, and the Coal Mines Act, 1886, be repealed; that a Bill be intro- j duced providing for the grading of nvining managers, and the issue of certificates accordingly, also to mining engineers ; i that in any such Bill provision should be made for the issue of certificates other than first class to such candidates, upon proof that they have been in actual successful practice for three years ns underground managers.” In speaking to the resolution, Mr Porter said that down South they had a Chamber of Mines, and some communication liad taken place between that Chamber and the committee of this Chamber of Commerce, and the result was the resolution just submitted. What the committee .-.recommended was that mine managers should be graded as school teachers were. If a gentleman then wanted to get a certificate for a lower degree, there was nothing to hinder him. and he could, if competent, pass to the higher grades. But they had three grades of mines, and it seemed nonsence that a man should have to pa-s the same examination for manager of a third-class mine, to what would be required from a manager who had machinery and pumps and extensive works, fie knew from his own knowledge that the miners were in favour of the proposal.—Mr S. T. George seconded the motion, and, on being put, it was carried without dissent.