Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1738, 11 May 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895.

• This shore all—1» fehlna own solf bo 6r«e, \t\d it mast follow as the night the day Tbou canefe nob then bo falee to any man. ; ' SHAKKSrRARB.

' The Rev Father Hackett will celebrate mass at St. Joseph’s Church, Te Aroha, to-morrow/(Sunday) 12th iust., at 11 a.m, Capt. Edwin wired at noon yesterday as follows Glass further rise, and indications for very cold night.

It is reported on good authority that a 5 cwt. trial sample parcel of quartz taken from Stoney Creek an(l sent to Auckland for treatment yielded equal to 14ozs of gold, per ton. A strong company is being formed to work the same.

A lad named Bertie Anderson met with a painful accident, at • Turua- on Wednesday. It appears that he was-on the verandah of a cottage, and noticing a raft of timber comiug down the river, was in tho act of jumping to the ground, when his foot caught in one of the battens, with the result that ho dislocated his elbow in his *enendea’ O ir to break his fall by putting out his hand. The lad was promptly sent to the Thames in a boat and admitted to the hospital, where Dr . Williams attended to his injures. A case, the Police v Charles Harley, of W tihi, arising out of a case in the same Coart a short time since, Lake v Preston, was heard, at the Paeroa Police Court on Wednesday before Mr H. Eyre Kenny, S.M. The hearing occupied the whole day. The allegation is that the accused had attempted to dissuade certain of Lake’s witnesses from attending the Police Court to give evidence. The acoused was committed to take his taial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Auckland. - ’

The estimated population of the colony, at the end of March, exclusive of Maories, was 365,365 males, 324,110 females, total 689,475. The Maori population is estimated at 43,993. The grand total for the colony is 731,468. ■■ ■ ? The somewhat dramatic manner in which our old friend Jabez Balfour'was \ smuggled” into England furnishes an appropriate conclusion to the lively career Jabez has led for the last two or three years. After, the plucky manner in which he so long evaded the grasp of the ‘' pursuers it ready seems hard lines that his efforts should be re warded with no better result. But, if certain bints dropped by the fugitive during the period of his exile are to be believed, the mobt .wonderful revel ations with reference to tho Liberator frauds are still to come, ' ' ,

. Messrs Hetherington & Co. has a rep’ac'e advertisement in this morning’s issue announcing large shipm mts from Loudon markets of novelties for autumn and winter wear. AH of which, they say, have been bought to the best advantage for thoir customers, and no doubt H. & Co. intend offering.the newest goods at a moderate price. And all who may patronise them can rely on getting the np to date article.. See show windows to-day. , ‘ . Tho Piako County Couucii invite tendirs for the following works:—l. Repairing and gravelling Murphy’s road. 2. M iking cuttings etc., on Road in tho Gordon Settlement.. Plans and specifications can be satin' at tbo office of Mr Gilchrist, Te Aroha, where tenders will be received up to 4 p.m. of Saturday next, the 18th inst. Mr J. Norrie, broth.br of the Rev; T. A. Ndrrie, is at present on a visit to Te Aroha, and is anrioancid to conduct the Presbyterian services in the Public Hall morning and evening of to-morrow. Mr Norrie visited Te Aroha some twelve months algo and will be remembered by those who heard his discourses on that occasion.

Mr Alfred Elkin, a surgeon dentist, late of Carter and Elkin, of Auckland, purposes paying Te Aroha a visit next' week, and may be consulted at the Palace Hotel from the 13th to the 18th inst, A resident of Galatea, a place between the Urewera country and Rotorua, wired as follows: —-Whakarewarewa, Thursday A. H. Waddle, late diamond drill expert at the Grand Junction mine, Waihi, has discovered a well-defined reef in the Urowera country, between Ruatoki and Ga'atoa, in good sandstone couutry- Specimens have been sent to. the Government .for 'assay. ' . ■ . . '

The" railway authorities have evidently fouud out that Te Aroha is tbe popivlar sanatorium after all.. They have persistently tried to crush Te Aroha by booming Rotorua with excursions and advertising. Yet despite this they cannot mat e the township of mud, maories and excessive charges catch oh. Te Aroha still attracts her admirers and will come to the fro at if allowed fair play, as was evidenced last Saturday by the 1500 excursionists who availed themselves of the opportunity of spending 3 hours here, and we expect another 2,000 here to-day. In our recent report of the Te Aroha Police Court Mr A. W. Edwards is said to have sued a man named Donnally; it should have read Tim Donovan. We offer our apologies to Mr Barney Donnally, we knew him better than to suggest his being placed in such a position. • -• Owing to the sadden departure of tho Rev Mr Joughin for Hokianga, on account of Mrs Joughin’j health, the appointment in connection with tbe Wesleyan Services ha,ve been alcered. Mr Spooner preaches in Te Aroha morning and evening, and Mr Allen at Morrinsville morning and evening. The appointments for other parts of the oircuit will be the aaine as plan, and arc duly advertised.

The atrocities in Armenia hare been nearly equalled by those in Syria. Christians there are treated worse than animals. Murders and outrages by Druses are of almost daily occurrence. Women have been carried away from their homes and violated, and, after brutal ill-treatment, sent back. Appeals to the authorities have been futile to secure either redress for the victims, or the cessation of the outrages. Some days ago a band of armed ruffians in broad daylight attacked the house of a well-known Christian merchant at Sidon, and carried off his daughter. She was kept three days, during which time she was subjected to the most inhuman cruelties, and was only restored to her relatives by the intervention of a military force. Even at Beyrout complete torror prevails among the Christians. Men are assaulted aud wounded. Ladies do not venture to leave their homes for fear of insult and outrage. Mr Spooner’s subjects of addresses in the Te Aroha Wesleyan Church will -be, morning, * Wrestling -Jacob,’ and in the evening ‘The Pope and Church Union.’ Visitors are invited and hymn books will be provided! ,