PAEROA NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1707, 19 January 1895, Page 2

PAEROA NOTES.

(By our own Correspondent.)

At a meeting of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club held on Wednesday evening, the 16th inst., in Mr Coote’s commercial room, it was resolved to have the meeting as usual on St. Patrick’s Day, the Cup to be £SO and the Hurdles £3O, instead of £55 and £35 as last year. Mr W. Kelly, M.H.R,, was elected Patron; Mr F. Lipsey, President; Messrs Rhodes, and X Phillips, Vice-, f Mi’ Ellis, Treasury; Mr E,’ Edwards, Secretary. - • The work on the railway has now reached Mr Tetley’s, and by the end of this week it is expected the rails will he laid to the bank of the river, to the site of the bridge. Preparations' are being made to make ’ room for the timber for the bridge 'daily expected, and the site for .the station has also been, marked off and levelled. We may therefore .expect"'soon to see the bridge under way. Your readers will ere this have seen that the County Council are calling for tenders fora large, number of works, which will be done before the next winter sets in. Judging from the large contracts for the supply of gravel and rubble which will be let, the roads should he in thoroughly good condition for traffic. I see these County tenders are drawing many of the old Waihou contractors in this direction. Among them Shine, McCarty, James Parr, Thompson etc. There is-a probability of a second ironmongery store being started in Paoroa, and I have no doubt' that it would do a very fair amount of business. Surely, if Te Arofia can keep three going, Paeroa ought to have two.

There is a good opening here for a stationary shop. , j it is next to impossible to get anything you want in that line unless you send to Auckland for it. No doubt, as-things are so.rapidly going ahead Rere some one will see the chance there is of starting such a business here.

new stable, 'or rather addition to lxis Royal Mail stables, next his hotel, is now almost completed, and presents a very imposing appearance. It is now about 160 feet in length, 32 feet broad, with some 40 stalls, loose boxes, feed rooms etc. Short/1 who purchased the stables in the .upper township from Mr Crosby, already contemplates building an addition to the budding, and it is said he may start a corn and feed business in conjunction thereto. This latter should do .. Therfe is annual activity in the way of pegging out claims all over the disfr’h'Yaiid the Clei-k L o/ tho: Warden’s f.T Uil tt Court on Tuesday had a very long list of applications, some JO in all, about half of which .were postponed until the next meeting, and as I believe/ there are already some 20 now applications already in for that Court day, besides others lil ely to come in, the list promises to be an unusually long one,;///’*’' Messrs John Phillips and Son’s store has been closed all this week, stock being taken previous to tenders being called’ for the stock in hand,--The closing of the shop seems to be rather, a short sighted policy on the part of' the Official Assignee as it will injure the sale of the business as a going concern, and many of the old customers are already drifting away to the other shops.

An indignation meeting was held last Saturday evening in the old Town Hail, Paeroa„.for the purpose of considering what steps should he taken to prevent the Ohinemuri river being polluted and/blocked for navigation, should it be proclamed by the Governor to be a water course into which tailings, mining debris etc. may be discharged, an application to that effect having been made. A large number, principally miners, were present, and Mir J. Me Andrew was voted to the! chair. The opponents of the measure i state their Opinion that the river was being contaminated and polluted by the cyanide used in the batteries, and that if the tailings, etc, are to be allowed to Ijo discharged into the river, it will ere lpug be rendered unnavigable for steamers. Mr E. Edwards, on the pther hand, thought that as the majority here lived by the mining industry it had the first right to the use of the rivers. So stop the mining because a jew eels have been killed by thstyna*!ide would be suicide, and as to silting, he vouched that there had not been One inch of silting at the Paeroa wharf Since he arrived in Paeroa, some 8 or. 10 yt a's ago. In the early day of thy Cyanide process, some portion of the cyanide had been allowed to be lost, hut now hardly any of it was lost, so it did not contaminate the water. A number of speakers gave their opinion on the question pro and con, and finally it was decided to leave 'he matter with the local. bodies and the County Council and River Board. /