TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1400, 23 June 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Proposed Prospecting Association, A mketino of the inhabitants of To Aroha, which was numerously attended was held on Monday evening, to take into consideration tho advisability of forming a Prospecting Association, for tho put pose of sending- out one or more prospecting parties to further explore the neighborhood, under experienced and practical direction. The chair was taken by Mr Stafford. The proposed object was warmly supported by all present, and a largo number of names were at once entered for a subscription of £3 a head for three months working. Mr H.E. "Whitaker accepted the office ot honorary secretary, and a committee of five members was elected to work ant tho details of the scheme, such as canvassing the out sott'eis, employing hands and so on, and a resolution was passed that a further meeting should be called for the first week in July, to hear a Veport of the steps taken and the progress made. It was further decided that application should bo made to Government for a sum in aid of the sohetno.

The Public Health. I see that there is a letter in your correspondence columu appropriately signed " Hector, '' who hectors rather rabidly over my remarks upon the want of a doctor or chemist here at the time of the sickness that prevailed a few weeks ago. I can only say that I expressed the feeling of many of fcho most respectable of the inhabitants, more especially those who were among the sufferers, and that the statements made were strictly correct. So far as the term "medical charlatan " is concerned, it was certainly not applied to Hector, whose worst enemies could not call him by any such name, and as for my malice complained of I can assure Hector that I have the ['kindest possible feeling for him.— [Te Aroha, June 22.] ' ' ' ' J 1 i ijiiu/.Lj '..

The Priijcesa" Aoiazula, daughter of Qefcewayo] haa amved ia New York, •