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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 16 July 1890, Page 2

Tenders will close to-day for the erection of a wood shed on the llanguiru Estate.

Mr James Craig will sell by auction today on Mr Hurt's premises spring cart, horses, saddles, bridles, &c, &c. The usual monthly meeting of the Pioko County Council will be held at Cambridge on Saturday next at 11 a.m.

Mr A. W. Edwards is now holding a special clearing sale) for tiventy-one days only. During this sale woiiderful bargains will be offered. Seenewadvt. The Netherton Thames river schoolhouse together with the furniture and school apparatus have been destroyed by fire. The building was only erected about a fortnight ago, and at the expense of the settlers.

A general meeting of the Ohinemuri branch of the Austialasian Miners Association will be held atOwharoa at 4 p.m. on Saturday next, to receive the report of the sub committee re bye-laws, and for the transaction of general business.

It is reported that Mr Charles Gould, formerly iif Waitoa, Ims purchased the Wh'ikntarie Cattle- Coin pane’s estate, originally bought by Messrs P. Comisky and the late S. Morrin. The property consists of about 11,090 acres freehold and 8000 leasehold of splended quality.

The Biink of New Zealand, Thames, purchased the following quantities of gold and silver bullion during June month Oldnemuii County, 2068nz, 18dwts ; T >ames Borough, 14440 z lGdwts ; Thames County, 9300 z Gdwt; Piako County, Hsoz 18dwf; Coromandel County,, loz 3dwt. T0ta1,.,456i0z ldwt. ;V'< Mb' Cayerill, some years ago. a large runholder in the south island, hut who has lately been sta3'ing at Aylesbury, Waitoa, in pliargetof thefarm fqrmeily owned by Mr F.’ Strange, was taken with a fit last week, and-for so ne.days, lay in an un-. conscious state. On Saturday,, ho waver, he had sufficiently recovered to be removed to Te Ar.-ha, so as to, be, near medical attendance, and is) we are glad vto lifeirir, making fair progress towards'^recoverj r He is hying nursed by Mrs Caverill and others, and has every-attention and care. ; The offertory in Wesley Church, Wellington, in aid of tbe Jpbilee giving fund, amounted to LIOD, and the ! total for the three churches was Ll2O. A : series of meetings and services were held dining last week, and at one of which, when tlmnk offerings were asked for the amount of L 630 was promised in a very few minutes. The promises ranged Fiom LSO by the Chairman (Mr J. H. Cook) to 2s 6d given by a child,, the renSurkable feature being that the offerings were not sought for any local object-*, and no appeal was made to any selfish motive. . In speaking on a Bill to facilitate the winding up of companies at Home, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach referred to a land company which Ime been in process of liquidation for the Inst 20 years and the work is not completed yet. Tbe shareu not being fully paid up, the official liquidator is making a call upon past shareholders, or their representatives, who sold their shares within a year before the commencement of the winding-up, and who are still liable for calls under certain conditions. Thus a rude awakening is being experienced in some quarters. It is stated for example, that a widow with a large family lms received a notification requiring payment of the call upon shares which her late husband sold over 20 years ago. A firm of land agencies and auctioneers carrying on business in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, have (says the London Estates Gazette) forwarded us an account of a few of their recent sales, extracted from a local paper. As is well known, land near the large towns in New Zealand is extremely valuable, hi t we hardly expected to learn, as we do from an advertisement in the paper referred to, that laird in tlie vicinity,of the prosperous town of Wellington is worth considerably more than it is in many parts of the Uld Country jusi now. Last week a compact farm of 61 acres, situate near an important town in Yorkshire, w-ts sold by auction for about L9OO ; a “ desirable freehold property” of 37 acres, called Home Bnsli Farm, with leasehold sections in the harbour district, closq to Wellington city, is offered at L2,*250, which is about the cost of the Yorkshire farm of two-thirds of its size some twenty years ago, when land values in England stood

as high as have ever been recorded.