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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 19 July 1890, Page 2

With this ispue of the Tti Aroha & Oeirehuri News, Mr Ilott vacates the editorial chair ; and purposes leaving for Wellington next week. Mr Ilott desires through the medium of these columns to say Gocd-bye to many friends whom lie may bo unable to personally visit before leaving the district. He also wishes to thank the public of Te Aroha generally for many kindnesses received during his seven years residence amongst them. In the conscientious discharge of his duties as editor of this journal he has at various times had tn oppose the views of a portion of the community, and to differ with them on matters of great local importance. Such for instance as with respect tn the desirability, or otherwise, of constituting Te Aroha and Waiorongoiiwu a Borough. If he should have at any time wounded the feelings of any of his readers by anything lie may have written in support of what be considered was best for the interests of the place, or in opposing th it which he deemed contrariwise, lie begs to assure them that in the course pursued he was not actuated by* personal motives but from a strict sense of duty. In lei ving Te Aroha he can truly say lie does so having none hut the kindliest feelings towards every member of the community. Although about to take up his residence in Wellington, the progress and prosperity of Te Aroha will still he matters of the deepest interest to him. The usual monthly meeting of the Piako County Council will be held at Cambridge to-day. Mi G. Arnold Ward, of Tautanga, lias kindly consented to act ns editor of the News for Mr Ingram, the new proprietor, until the latter can personally take charge. The usual fortnightly sittings of the Te Aroha Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts will be held on Tuesday next, commencing at 9 a.in. Messrs TTetheringfon and Co. notify by advertisement that in order to make roo u for heavy shipments of new goods on the way out from London, they are now holding a monster cheap sale for cash in all denartments. During this sale great value will he off -red.

The first portion of the Cambridge and Te Arobn contribution to the petilion asking Parliament for a trial of Vaile's railway scheme has been forwarded for transmission to Wellington. The petition contains 105 name's—s2 from Cambridge and 53 fn»iu Te Aroha. Other sheets are still being signed.

Tito successful tenderer for clearing and ploughing twenty acres for Mr Holden was P. Baine, at 15-> per ai r l . The s.ic’ cessful tenderer for No. 2 contract for the same party, clearing only, was Thomson and Baker, at 10s Gd per acre. For No. 3 conti act, clearing site for house, etc., five acres, Bennett and Robinson, at 7s Gd per acre.

At the Warden’s Court, Thames, on Thursday last, the following were amongst the applications dealt with : —R. McWilliams, Gold water, Whangamata, adjourned 7th. August ; A. Ilogg, occupation license and residence site, refused, being on native land ; 11. Dance, residence site, Waihi, granted ; John Phillips, protection for Carbine Claim, Ivarska Creek, granted for two months.

We.,regret to learn that AlrW. Emerson, Sergeant of the Police in charge of Te Aroha district for the past six or seven years, is about to be transferred to Auckland. Air Emerson has proved himself a most efficient and painstaking officer, who has discharged the duties of his office in a careful and satisfactory manner, and his removal will be a great loss to the district. Mr and Mrs Emerson and family will take with them the best wishes of a large circle of friends..

The Bay of Plenty Times, in a recent issue, says : “ The wandering of cattle and horses, by permission of the Borough Council, through the streets of the Borough, is a great hardship to the inhabitants, who have no remedy against the owners unless the former are at the expense of erecting legal fences, an absurdity to a Borough, where the local authority is assumed to protect the people from this nuisance. Some people, even some of them Borough Councillors, uctually use the streets of a Borough as a cattle run. If the Borough Council will not protect the inhabitants from this miisanoe, we would suggest that when another case of trespass through defective fences occurs the Borough Council should bo sued for damages.” We must compliment Captain Russell (says the New Zealand Times) on bis contribution to the debate, which was certainly the best that has come from the Government benches. Fluent, good-tem-pered, earnest, Captain Russell shrank from no difficulty, lie was eminently fair to the other side, more particularly on the much vexed land question ; he chuffed his opponents effectively, he spoke of his mission to Australia with success as well as spirit, and his defence of General Edwurds was warm and dignified. If he were to treat interlopers and their interjections with a little severity of neglect he would be interrupted less often. On the whole he gave us a good speech, full of matter, and in excellent tone throughout.

Mr Ed. Kersey Cooper forwarded his petition for the abolition of gold duty to Mr R. J, Seddon, M.H.U., at Wellington, on Saturday last, signed by 7 legal managers, 58 owners apd directors oi gold mining companies, 343 bona fide miners, 2 members of the Thames Borough Council, and 1 member of the Ohinemuri County Council. Mr Cooper, in writing to Mr Beddon, made the following suggestions : —(1) That the roads on a goldfield should be under thecontrol of Road Boards elected by bona fide miners only, with the Warden as referee in all matters of dispute, and his decision to b 3 final, whilst he should have power to forfeit any holdings which does not contribute promptly in rates; (2J The revenue should be made up by constant and careful assessments made on each and every mine using the reads ; and (3) The districts to be limited as much as possible to one road and its arteries, and proper accounts kept with each district.

A ra«p possessing s good deal of interest, being the first of the kind that baa been heard at the Thames—in fact, we believe in the colony- -came before the WardftiV Court yea ter day, when n man named Adam Kllictt, of Waihi, was charged on the information of Mr George Wilson, Mimne Inspector, with having, when in charge of that portion of the Silverton mine, situated at Waihi, known as Littlejohn's tribute, allowed an iron pricker to be taken iuto the mine, contrary to paragraph 9 of snb section 29, section 207 of the Mining Act. The evidence of Ilenrv C. Savage, Ge nge Colehrook, William Littlejohn, and R. Reed all corroborated the diorge made bj the Mining Inspector. The pricker was found hy the Mining Inspector himself, and it was stated by the witness Savage that it had beon lying for a long time, some 3or 4 years, during whit It time to bis knowledge it had never been used. The case was adjourned till the 7th August to enable the Mining Inspector, who is at present at Ptihipuhi, to be examined.

At the last meeting of the Tauranga Borough Council on Monday night, some amusement was caused by Mr Firth Wrigley handing in the following communication with the amount, subscribed : —“To Ris Worship the Mayor of Tauranga,—We, the undersigned ratepayers and inhabitants of the district, desire, through you, to express our deep sense of obligation and gratitude to Councillor C. Jordan and the maj >rity of the Borough Council for refusing to pay the unauthorised expenditure of six shillings for an advertisement, signed by yourself, inserted in the Bay of Plenty Times, at the request of a number of inhabitants, proclaiming Monday, the 26th day of May, as a public holiday in honour of the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen, and we hand you herewith seventy two pence to liquidate the account, feeling sure that in view of the necessity of providing monies l'or engagements already entered into by the Council the funds at its disposal might be unduly burdened.” [Mere follow 72 signature.-].”—The communication and payment were refused, as not being couched in sufficiently' respectful terms. The money handed in consisted of 72 pennies.—Bay of Plenty Times. A sight not noon to be forgotten was witnessed on Tuesday evening last in the Social Hall of the Y.M.C. A., Auckland, that of 200 ladies, old and young, without the admixture of even one gentleman—gathered to sip tea together and to enjoy two hours of conversation in unmolested felicity. The occasion which drew this assemblage together was the whispered approaching marriage of the much respected Miss Alexander, the Young Women’s Christian Association secretary. For some time preparations were being made to present the lady with something to mark the appreciation of her many friends. As soon a- tea was over the elderly ladies, under the presidency of Mrs Angus White, presented Miss Alexander with a purse well filled with sovereigns. Mrs White, in a few happy words, spoke of Miss Alexander’s excellent qualities of heart and head. Mrs White said that this was a small token from the elder Indies of the Association, The young women were represented by Miss Falls, who presented n lain 1-ome porcelain biscuit-barrel, and a silver-mounted butter-cooler and knife. Miss Alexander seemed very tnii'-h touched, and in her response alluded to the many years she had spent in her work.

The Thames Harbour Board intends introducing during the present session of Parliament a Bill to lie called “ TlieThatues Harbour Board Act, 1890. ’’ The objects ot’ *he Bill are to reconstitute the Harbour Board and to validate and to exnlain a curtain definition of the port of Thames. The provisions of the Bill are briefly as follows members of the present Hoard are to remain in office until the second Monday in February, 1891, when they shall go out of office. Any vacancy that may occur in the meantime shall be filled up as if the new Act had not been passed. On and after the second Monday in February, 1891, the Board shall consist of nine members (five being a quorum), elected or appointed as follows :—The Mayor ef the Borough of Thames for tlte time being, one to be appointed by the Thames Borough Council, one by the Thames County Council, one by the Chinetmiri County Council, one by the Piako County Council, two by the payers of harbour dues, and two by the Governor, nuking nine in all, to hold office for two years, the election to take place in February of each alternate year. All acts and other transactions done and liabilities incurred by the Thames Harbour Board in the past are to be deemed valid on this Act coming into force, and all moneys due to or by the Board may be recovered, notwithstanding any defect or want of validity in any ptevious warrant issued by the Governor. The seaward limits of the port of Thames are defined as u circle of five nautic miles radius from Opani Point, with the inshore limits extended about twenty chains beyond that limit, up as far as the boundary line between the Te Koptia and Makakarahi Blocks. This is as nearly as possible about half-n-tnile or thereabouts above Messrs Bagnali’s mills atTurua.