TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 14 July 1881, Page 3

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Court Delays. The arrival of about a dozen people yesterday, from Cambridge, to attend the Court, in ignorance of its having been adjourned, justifies my remark upon the hardships of the law to the just. Several of them were busy tradesmen, whose businesses would suffer by their absence, and whose expenses would amount to several pounds ; to make the matter more pleas'ng for one of them, at all events, he is a prosperous man, and, being the holder of a quarter share in one of the Te Aroha abandoned claims, not worth at the best five pounds, he is being " spotted" by all who have any claims upon the claim, and may be made responsible for all. Should that amount to a few hundreds, ho will have just cause to bless the law and Te Aroha.

Want of Telegraphic Coinmumcation. There is a groan pervading the town and all the others of the district for a telegraph line through all these remote and isolated parts. Paeroa is getting up ,i petition for it. In these days of instantaneous communication anyone who is four or five hours from his nearest central township is out in the cold and a sufferer,

New Finds. There are great leports of successful finds f i oni W.viln ; 800 or 900 ounces are nothing to them now. It is to be hoped they will not prove too seductive and lead to a rush and a reaction. The Buck reef here too is trying to get up a sensasensation, and tales come in of great finds, but they all want the one great point of a good story — interest ; and the only interest that would take here would be 300 per cent.— July 13.