Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1898.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2103, 12 May 1898, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1898.

*~ Warden's-Court sits to»morrow.. The mail via. San Francisco closes, at the Post Office to-morrow at 10.20. am.

We hear arrangements are being made for the survey of Tautaue estate, Hawke s Bay, into small bloous, and that it will soon be opened opened for settlement. The New Zealand Country Journal for May is an. unusually interesting number We publish their fanning notes for the benefit of our country readers.

" Messrs. Watson and. Garret, of the valuation Department arrived in. To Aroha on Tuesday and will attend the sitting, of the Assessment. Court to-morrow, morning.

The following is. a. list of the preparations made by the Maoris, in the way of food at the funeral of Major Kemp • the centre of the pah rose a great pile of provisions-80fc long, 7ft high, and several feet.in breadth'. In. front of. it were ten big pigs. tied, to stakes, and on top of it, impaled on sticks, were 199 ©nepound notes to be given, away as presents, to representatives.. The heap of food contained all t?ae materials for a gorgeous.feast. There were 26 sacks of potatoes, 14 tons,, of. flour, 48 large boxes of biscuits, 127- bags of. sugar 17 tins of biscuits, ID. sacks and 5. boxes- of dried fish, 18 boxes of tea, 3, hogsheads of beer, 2 cases of whisky, 10 baskets of mutton birds, 2 sacks.of pumkins and. melons. ' Some little time ago it was decided by. one judiciary authority that damages could not be recovered by a person whose property wasinjured,by a. bush fire spreading from an adjoining. property. Now it is laid down by. a Marlborough Magistrate that the person from whose property a .fire spreads is liablufor any damage done* to neighbours. i The new quick-firing gun, perfected by : Messrs Kynooh, of Birmingham, seems almost too good to be true. It is. said to be capable.of firing 600 shots a minute, and of killing at three miles—which, means that two or. three, guns, could check the advance of a brigade.. There aro many excellent quick-firing guns in use, but most .of them get so hot asTo be useless. after a time. The Kynoch invention is said to be kept cool by a,water-jacket,.which, is. filled automatically. This, and the rate of firing make the new g,un the most deadly weapon -in existence! We presume it will be. reserved for the British army,.

: _ Game appears to be very plentiful at To Puke, .but it.is not. anticipated that any big bags will be made until maize-picking, is completed.. Some of the settlers have already started, but many fields will , not be, .ready until the end of the month, Her Majesty the Queen, though slightly under sft in height, is close upon 12st, in weight. The heaviest Queen in Europe is her ex Majesty Isabella of Spain,, who turns the scale at I4st,. The Empress of ■ Austria, from her constant exercise and -early risiGg, weighs only'6£at, The Empress of Germany turns the scale at 13st, and the Czarina of Russia' can only put to her credit. Bst. and somS'd'dd'poiinds.. A naan, named Henry, Shaw, committed suicide at Driving Creek, Coromandel,, by hanging himself. He was 54 years of age and a widower.. He lived with his daughter, aged 16 years,.who kept.hbuso for him. Hh had. been, drinking heavily for some timfii i The coroner’s, jury returned a w> diet, “Suicida-whilst of unsound, mind.” Everyone who has any knowledge of; theinner working of the Montezuma Company’s plant is full of admiration for the managing, director’s; devotion to his. great project. In the face of difficulties and; drawbacks apparently, insurmountable, Mr Campbell has struggled, on with a courage which is magnificent if it is- not businessfor he is sure to sulferfrom.it in: the long! run No man can burn the candle at both ends,, as he has been doing for the last month or two, with impunity. Not the lightest among the- strokes of. ill-fortune. befalling this; capable and ingenious gentleman, since, hebegan putting up-the hyperphoric-battery, is the long and serious, illness of hispopular manager and right hand man—Mr Herbert Clappezouli. Through the combined effects of over-work, anxiety and exposure. Mr/lappezouli more than, a month ago ; succumbed to a. severe attack of congestion of the lungs. Dr. Gilbert Smith, by unremitting; care and attention—a care and, attention, of which Mrs. Clappezouli apparently cannot speak too highly—-has. managed- to pull his patient through handsomely,, and, the latter may now be said to be ‘out of the wood- and convalescent. Mr Campbell, too, has been studiously attentive to the-wants-of his lieutenant, and we sincerely trust that the popular and energetic manager may speedily be found at his post again, where he can so ill be before many weeks,have elapsed-

Our report of the-annual meeting of tlxe Agricultural and Horticultural Society, with other matter, is held over until Saturday’s issue. ; : Mr George Warren, well-known in Auckland musical circles,, is, in, Te Arab a for the benefit of his health. Mr Warren is staying at the ' Family Hotel.: •

The ‘ Hauraki Tiribuno ’’ is responsible for the statement that there is a : movement on * foot in Karangahake among the mining companies there, to reduce wages of 1 surface and- battery hands to 6s per day. - The Woodstock mine is ‘ shut down’’ for 3: months.. The battery,, however, will be kept running to get rid of the accumulated stone. Pive head of stampers will be worked by Mr Adams with his recently patented process.

Id spite of the wails of those who would ‘govern by contradiction’ over the decadence of the woollen industry in New Zealand,. the generally wellinformed and accurate ‘ Melbourne Age ’ states that the woollen- industry in Victoria has not progressed in the same ratio' as in New Zealand. So far as the latter is concerned,, its success has been moat marked.

Mr Parham, deputed by the .Government to report on the watersupplies of Karangahake, Waihi, and Waitekauri, visited i’e Aroha yesterday, leaving in the afternoon for Paeroa en route ior the Thames* where ho is to report on the Queen of Beauty low level.

The cortified accounts for the year of the colony, show a surplus of £521,000,. ■ -7 # The mail steamer Alemeda arrived in Auckland yesterday morning from San Francisco. A man named Guilder was injured whilst jacking logs at Taima. That famous soldier, General Miles, will personally lead -the - American army of invasion in Cuba. Our readers will be pleased to learn that we have heard from the Rev. Joseph Campbell that the few days’ running of the Montezuma G.M. Co.’s machinery has proved that everything promises to be preeminently satisfactory. All parts of the machinery perform- the duties- assigned? to themf. while the furnace is'oue- of the- most perfect he has ever seen. During; the [next‘three or four days one-or two pulleys are to be adjusted*, slope of hopper altered, shoo-ts arranged, and then the running will proceed without the slightest hitch. Mr Campbell says that he is satisfied that his process will be very successful in dealing with all classes of New Zealand ores.