TE AROHA. [fROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1399, 21 June 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. [fROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Te Aroha School. -, Tur.RK was a meeting of the inhabitants ou Fnday evening to j>ro\ide aya v building for a school and a house for Dr and !Mra Harvey, and it was decided tjjat ■ the committee should be empowered to act in the selection, Mr Lavery remarking that the small building for the Wesleyan Church would be finished in about three weeks, and that that would be Available as a school building. /

The Weather.' • The rain lua bee^i -rather plentiful for the last week, 'and' the' roads are in a highly rotten condition. th,e state of things which the jßoacl Board appears to have been diligeutly aiming at and carefully g^ep^rijagrfor? 'namely; [that' of complete impassafyility, . lja.vi;ig beea v?ry nearly attained.' , T^e, river has again risen more 'than Seven fdetl ' A

Proposed Licensing ' District. A petition is going round for signature to constitute Te.Aroha a! licensing district under the Act. Tine grantiqg of thia will necessitate the a/ppoiptmentof a JVP. and Licensing Commissioner, and may be very gratifying' to'soiheone's 'Vanity,- even if no othev good is effected. ! " '

' : ! " The 'Claims.- ( ' <( '■' 2 , Steady working of the claims that*, tike ,the Prospectors and' the 11 Bonanza." are known to be payable will, it' is" hoped, be tiktr'M out>t once. 'Capital will.haVe.to be.raidftil,' afa^ Investors will'have to.select , the ori th'e'work' ; but' it is hafdly to'bfe sappo3iid taat there 'wiiriio.tbe any interest displayed'' in the 'develogWt of the ndhes 1 6f 'the field. Itii'pretty I ' vrell / kno j frii T nW, Hyt'erd tie goldiBto,pef,ound, and' it 'only'reqairea working w^n siflgi'dient [capital and some knowledge,' however slight, of the way to go to work, to pay'gr ; ahd'<livid«nd'ff.' ! -ln many >'CjUcs the> «mils' ; sa fjir> bbtained

from the crushings are no criterion of what may ye done;, as the merest rubbish ' sometimes Mas sent down while the reef was not touched ; the drives in other cbuiris* hive been put in at too high or too low a level through want of good management, fi}id,the jeef has not been struck. Some 'ha\'e" been abandoned that a few more feet would have made payable f Old diggei-3, when the bearing of 'the reef is known, •Will r heve'r knock ofPeVen if they have to pay £5 a foot for working till they •flnd'gold t "J-rJune 20tlu]