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Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1741, 22 May 1895, Page 2

The Te Aroha Post Office will be closed on Friday, 24th, H.M. Birthday. Mails usually despatched on Friday- will : close on Thursday! 23rd, at 8 p.m. Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, will reach her seventy-sixth birthday on Friday next, and on the 28th of next month she will complete the fifty-seventh year of her reign.

New Zealand saddle tweed suits made to measure, 65s the suit. Satisfaction guaranteed. A. W. Edwards. We are pleased to note that prospecting at Te Aroha and Waiorongomai still continues, several fresh claims are being pegged out, also a machine site and water right are to be applied for at the next sitting of the. Warden’s Court.

The attention of our local volunteers is drawn to a notice in our advertising -columns, calling upon all the members to assemble at the range on Queen's Birthday, to compete for prizes presented by the tradespeople and others. As we understand there will be first and second squads, we hope to see the young shots roll up in force. The programme of the Te Ai*oha school concert which is to be held in the Public Hall on Friday evening appears in our advertising columns. The public will be pleased to note that several local favorites are to take. part. The concert is to conclude with the farce ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Should the weather be favourable no doubt there will be a large audience. Mr Hansen's farm will be offered for sale by auction by Messrs McNicol at Co. at the close of their next Waitoa sale on the 31st inst. Those desirous of obtaining such a property would do well to see this place. The new church at Moransville is now completed and reflects great credit upon all who have had to do with its construction. Mr Schofield has been indefatigable in his work of collecting subscriptions, and he will have the pleasure of seeing the building opened free of .debt. Mr White, of Haxxiilton, was tbej architect, and hg3 designed a neat and suitable church. Mr Hogan was the builder and his name is a sufficient, guarantee that honest workmanship was pub into the contract. The church is quite an acquisition to.Morrinsville and an improvement in the appearance of that thriving township. The opening ceremony will be conducted by the Primate, assisted by ( the Waikato clergy, on the 31st inst. - - ,

Kaiapoi Tweed Suits to measure, 49s 6d the suit —large variety of tweeds to choose from. Fit guaraated. At A. W. Edwards. A scene unusually pathetic was recently witnessed in the room of a dying man at La Grange, Indiana, where one Enos Randall died after a protracted illness. During his sickuess he was atteneed closely by his ..devoted wife. When tho last hours came she was sitting by her husband’s bedside, bolding him by the hand. He had scarcely given his last gasp, when the wife bent suddenly over the body, as though to kiss the foreherd. As she failed to move after a few minxxtea, relatives went to her, and found to their horror that she was dead.

Mails for -tho United Kingdom aud Europe etc. (per direct steamer ‘Doric’ from Wellingto 1 30fcb) close on Tliui'sday, 23rd, at 3 p.m., parcels forwarded by this mail will be due in London on 10th July. Three Mildura (Victoria) packing companies, representing 800 tons of raisins out of the 900 grown this year, propose exporting 200 tons of raisins to establish an outside market. One grower reports having dried 24 tons of raisins, He estimates his gross return at £9OO, and his net return at £6OO, or £SO per acre.

. An American bridegroom, aged twentyone, while on bis honeymoon toxxr, was charged in London with assaulting his wife and was sent to gaol for a month. He admitted striking her because she would not -obey him. The/wife stated that he kicked her when they visited the Tower, and slapped her face when they were returning from church on the Sunday. Referring to the live sheeip sent Home by the Banffshire the Otago Daily Times says that the 200 sheep which were sold at 43s each were in all probability the 200 fine large three-quarter bred wethers from the Edendale - Estate, estimated to weigh from 801bs to 851bs, and that the other 50 sheep were a nice lot of half-bred (first ci’oss Romney) wethers, averaging about 701bs, bred by Mr Nicholson, of Ida Valley, which wore purchased by Mr Brydbne as types of what half-bred sheep should be. Our contemporary says that the average value of the sheep in Dunedin when slxipped was given at about 11s. The cost of freight, fodder, insurance, landing charges, etc., was estimated'at £1 3s 7d per head, so that the cost landed in London, if the latter estimate proved correct, would be £1 14s 7d. As the sheep would appear to have avei’aged £2 2s in London, the shippers would reap some advantage from their enterprise. The lower priced sheep, on the basis stated, realised 3s 5d more a piece than had they been sold.as freezers.

Johnnesburg is rapidly establishing a record for crimes of a violent, character. Within the past few weeks no less than six murders have been committed. Four of these were,discovered in four days, but as the victims'were natives, and it was thought that the perpetrators, were natives, little notice was taken of them. But recently two Europeans were found murdered, one being terribly mutilated, within 48 hours. The victims were well-known and popular, and the affair caused great indignation, rewards aggregating <£looo being quickly quaranteed by leading citizens, in addition to a reward of <£3oo offered by the Government for information leading to the conviction of the murderers. One of the victims was an assistant postmaster named Carney, and he was seen shortly before the murder in the company of a man said to be a stranger to Johannesburg. The murders have apparently not been committed for plunder, as the victims wore found with all their valuables intact, and it is therefore supposed the murders have been committed by a homicidal maniac. ,

. The third Saturday excursion train from j Auckland to Te Aroha arrived punctually to time on the 18th inst., and, like its predecessors was well supplied with pleasureseekers. During, .their short stay in this sanatorium - the visitors expressed themselves as highly pleased with the outing. Tho children were allowed free use of the baths, aud it is needles, to say, took advantage of the opportunity afforded them, the number of baths taken by adults also totalled up well. It is a pity the railway authorities did not see their way to commence these excursions earlier in the season, as the very unsettled state of the weather at this time of the year acts as a. determent to numbers who would otherwise patronise these trips. Mr Aerbert Gordon who has a sluicing claim in the Ohinemuri River near where Crown Mines Company’s tailings are deposited, recently banked 66ozs 3dwts of melted gold valued 'at £2 10 P er . ounce, from 5 tons of tailings. The remaining 7 tons are now in course of treatment.

Mr Ben Crisp, who in his time has played many parts, since his ai'rival in the colonies at the early age of eleven years, to-day celebrates his’- 87th birthday, .‘Old Ben,’ as he is familarly called by his many friends, in Nelson, is a staunch advocate of temperance, setting out in this work of reform as far back as 1843, and many grown up persons still possess tokens awarded to them by Mr Crisp to members of the Band of Hope which he founded. Mr Crisp, despite his years, is still well and has every hopes of-reaching the century.—Colonist

No doubt (says the American correspondent of tbe Melbourne Argus) the recent action of the Canadian Government with respect to the butter trade has been reported -in Australia, and .has attracted the attention of exporters there. It was on February 12th that tlxe Government informed the farmers that it would buy all their winter butter at 20c a pound, and export it to England. The Minister of Agriculture said, a few days later, that he had been ..assured that the railway aud steamship companies would supply the needed refrigerating apparatus, and also remarked that the High Commissioner in London would arrange for cold storage at Liverpool, Glasgow, and Bristol. The Butter and Cheese Association, at a meeting held in Montreal, has.since made vigorous protest, asserting- that the price is 4c. a pound moi’e than can be realised in England, pointing out that Canadian winter butter will suffer in competition with hew grass-butter from - other countries, and urging that the business should be left to the ordinary exporting agencies. The Government professes to be moved only by a desire to foster the industry, but the elections are near at hand and farmers’ yotes are worth having.

The Colony is at present suffering from the low prices which the bulk of its products realise, but there is a hope that the recently reported advances'-in the London market of wheat ! and barley may bo the precursors of higher values generally, and with a turn for the better the advancement of New Zealand is a certainty.

The mining industry in the. Colony appears to be on the ascendant. ' During last /quarter 67,2030zs of gold, of the value of ,£207,585, were exported, as against 65,837 ozs, of the value of £265,679, during the corresponding quarter of last year, Altogether New Zealand has exported gold to the value of twenty and a-half millions sterling. In the twenty-eight days prior to tlxe 4th May,’the Waihi mine pi-oduced £7540 worth of- bullion, being" at the rate of £3 BslOd per ten of stone treated, k This brought the total yield of the mine in question up to £269,641. In the Nelson Provincial District, too, the seeling for gold is meeting with larger success. Over £BOOO was paid away in dividends for last month in-the; Reef ton district, and dredging for gold is, with- improved appliances, becoming more profitable. Dredging., on the v Buller Ziß • bringing reward to enterprising investors, and coming still nearer Nelson, a dredge on the Aorere river brought to account sixty ounces of gold in ten days. The last'mentioned result is certain to lead to other dredges being set to work in the Collingwood district. There are three coal mines in the Hikurangi coal district which are now in full swing, and producing large quantities of coal. Probably the output yet reached by either' of these is the Smith’s mine which is being ..worked by J.! J. Craig and yielding 40 tons daily. The extension of the railway into the locality has done much to develope this important industry. A private letter received from the Transvael by a former Johannesburg residents gives the following particulars of the capture of some good thieves —‘Detectives have found two Americans living near Heilbronn road who have been plundering gold sent by train from Barberton and Pilgrim’s Rest for the last two years. They •were formerly guards on the Cape railway but leaving this employ, settled down, as farmers ostensibly, but really as gold robbers. 'They had carried off a safe from Party’s 0.F.5., and their spoor was traced for miles to the farm where they lived. Ultimately it was found in a mealie field, about 400 yards from the house, with mealie stalks growing over it, One of the parties in the chase happened to pull a mealie stalk and it came away at once. Suspicion was aroused, and, on the soil being scratched the safe was found and script of the face value of £200,000 but trorth much more really, and jewellery of the value of £IO,OOO was found. Over a dozen bars of melted gold, were found under the safe. Altogether *it is one of the finest captures ever made in South Africa.