Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 485, 2 July 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1890.

* This above alt—to thine own eelf bo ferae. And it must follow as the night the day Thou canab not then be false to any man.' Shakespkakb.

Real wintry weather. Plain and fancy dress carnival in Te Arolia Public Hall to-morrow evening. The monthly meeting of Ohinetnuri Conntv Council will ho held ait Paeroa on Saturday next, at 3 p.m. Messrs J. McNicol and Co. hold a sale of live stock, valuable assortment of fruit, shelter, and ornamental t r ees, etc. at at Waitoa on Friday next. Commenting on the Budget, the New Zealand Times says that its programme of policy is totally inadequate to cops efficiently with tire grave evils so clearly exposed in the analysts of the country’s condition, and that “ the want of a policy is the feature of the Financial Statement.” Mr Joyce, has given notice to move for a select committee to report upon the best means of largely increasing the settlement of people upon the millions of acres of unoccupied land in the North Island, and also the extent in area of larger freehold blocks of land in the colony which the Government should acquire for settlement upon a leasehold tenure. The Ohinemnri Licensing Committee held its adjourned annual meeting on Monday last at Paeroa. The licenses of the Owharoa and Mackaytown hotels were granted. Mr Meldrnm, who appeared for Messrs Brown and Campbell, on behalf of the Waihi Hotel, was granted an adjournment fo? twenty-eight days, in order that that a person maybe nominated as licensee of the Waihi Hotel, vice Mr P. Nowliill, whose license was refused at the last meeting. We acknowledge receipt of the TimeTable of the N. Z. Government Railways for July. We wouldf again remind our readers that return tickets are nowjissued as follows For distances of \ twenty miles available for return the next day or from Saturday to following Monday. Over twenty miles, available for one month. Over three hundred miles, available for three months. Return tickets Te Arolia to Auckland are now is-ued nt ; Bingle, first-class, £1 4s, return £1 12s : second single «6», return £1 Is 4d.

On Monday, Mr J. Harrison, chairman of directors of the Prospectors’ mine, Puliipnhi, returned to Anckland from the Thames. He expressed himself as satisfied that the rnliipuhi stone simply requires dry crushing and pan amalgamation, and that the clilorodised roasting process is unnecessary. He next proceeds to Waihi to inspect the plant there, as it is said to be suitable for Puhipuhi ore. He will also visit Karangahake to witness a ton of ore from Puhipuhi treated by Cassell’s process. Mr J. B. Whyte, M.11.R. for Waikato, has presented u petition to the House from the Waikato Land Association, setting forth that the Company had spent a quarter of u million in draining a large tract of swamp land ” in Waikato, and had not received tiny return for the capital expended ; that prior to 1885 the Association fenced and planted 142 ucres of this land with forest trees, and they now applied for a land order in accordance with the provisions of the Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871 and 1872. The past has been a wonderful year for British shipbuilders, as the aggregate tonnage has exceeded that of 1883, which beat the record. The latter was 1,250,000, and that of 1889 1,272,000 tons. The order in which the shipyards stand is this :—The Clyde, Tyne, Wear, Tees, Haitlepool, Belfast, Mersey, Hull, and Leith, It is intereating to note the reviving prosperity of Ireland under the firm rule of Mr Balfour, In 188 b Belfast built 34,000 tons of shipping. Last yaar tt constructed 80,000 tona.

MrCadman, M.H.R., asked the Minister of Lundsif he would this session endeavour to amend the Selectors’ Land Revaluation Act, so that the interpretation danse shall include the agricultural leaseholders of Ohinemuri County. The Minister said those settlers were not under the same conditions us those dealt with under the Act referred to. By an amendment in the Mining Act these settlers had been given the right to acquire the freehold of their lands without competition, at 5s an acre. The depreciation in the value of hides, arising from the present unsystematic branding of cattle has been brought under the notice ot the Minister of Agriculture, in New South Wales, by a deputation of tanners and hide merchants, who urge that a bill should be introduced to regulate the branding of cattle. It was stated that frequently brands appeared upon and rendered worthless the very best parts of the hide, and it was estimated that the waste caused in this manner represented a loss to the colony of fully £20,000 or L 30.000, which might be saved under a properly regulated system of branding. The Minister promised to communicate with the Stock Board preparatory to a bill being prepared to deul with the matter. We have frequently in these columns directed attention to the great value of Larney’s Anthelmintic, both as a preventive and remedy for lung worm, etc. We ere pleased to know its value is becoming more generally known and appreciated bysheep owners ; as shown by the following taken from the Waikato Timep of Saturday :—“The disease in sheep genemlly known as lung worm has been particularly prevalent ip Waikato this season. In one case we have heard of, a farmer has lost fifty per cent of his lambs, and the disease is still rampant amongst the survivors, It is much to be regretted that such heavy losses should occur when a remedy so efficacious as Larney’s Anthelmintic is procurable. As a proof of the value of this specifie, wo were told oply a few days ago by oue of the largest fiockmasters in the district that a few weeks ago his loss in Jambs from lung worm was becoming a very serious mutter. He tried the anthelmintic with the most marked success, it acted like magic’ the mortality in his flock at once ceased and the lambs affected soon recovered their condition.”

Mr J. H. Moore, manager of the Marototo G. Mining Co., arrived at Thames on Monday evening with 17300 z. retorted bullion, obtained from about 50 tons second-olass ore and about half-a-ton firstclass ore. The bullion banked last month fetched 8s per oz. ; hut Mr Moore is of opinion that the present parcel will realise a little Uglier price. Operations in the mine during the past month have been somewhat slack, owing to the miners having been employed in oorduroying the sledge track leading from the mine to the battery, the wet weather having made it very soft. At the Wardens Court Thames, on Thursday last amongst the applications deult with were the following : R. Me Donald Scott, May Queen licensed holding, adjourned to 2lst August ;R. McWilliams, Goldwater, Wliungnmnta, adjourned 10th July ; Silverton, Waihi, exchange of title, granted ; C. Nash, agricultural lease. Ohiuemuri,adjourned 10th July; H. J. McKenzie, residence site, Ohinemnri, adjourned lUth July ; J. Abbot, Smile of Fortune, Owharoa, exchange of title, granted ; Alex Hogg, occupation license and resilience site, Puriri, adjourned lOtli J uiy ;J. Madden, protection for three months for Madden’s Folly, Owliuroa, granted, A correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times writes as follows to that journal, under date, Waihi, June 23rd:—‘‘The candidates to represent this electoral district are believed to he Messrs Allen, Porter and Stewart. The former has already addresses! the electors in an excellent speech, but it is questionable whether bo will have local influence sufficient to secure his return. Mr Adam Porter has had experience in Count}’ Councils and is undoubtedly clever, but as an Auckland city resident lie is likely to prove merely an additional member for that «Uy from whence the strings to which Mr Porter may dance will be pulled. In Mr Stew art, however, we have a man who is calculated to prove an independent member, well situated within the centre of the district, and having his interests and sympathies theiein. He has proved himself capable of exerting strong personal influence, having succeeded in accomplishing much work of a permanent and enduring nature without apparently the aid of political part}’. He is unconnected, fortunately, with that form of progress which has in the past sucked the unhappy Bank of New Zealand to a shell, and is now turning its undivided attention to New Zealand itself, and gathering power by thrusting its tools into every position of public trust. A strong feeling here is in his favour, and some, if left to their own inclination, would support him, but who are surrounded by influences they dare not resist. Down country his support may not he so strong, they being jealous of up-country progress, and the action of Mr Stewart in securing the re-erection of the Ohineinuri Bridge is regarded as ! inimical to their little interests, in losing our present member, Mr Cadman, we shall be parting with an honest, painstaking man, possessing those attributes, so rare among our present representatives, which constitute a gentleman—high principle, courteous manner, and unassuming, kind and considerate nature.”