TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Prospecting Association &c.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 30 July 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Prospecting Association &c.

We are expecting the Prospecting Association to get to work now. i believe their minds have been made easy on the score of funds and they will lose no time in making aome sensible efforts to " strike the reef." In the meantime the tributors of the Morning Star and other claims are working away to get out a sufficient quantity of stuff for crushing and are confident as to results. The little Wesleyan church building ia now rapidly approaching completion and will lend an air of more civilization to the place. There will bo I believe a little ceremonial aud festive business on the opening that will arouse us for an hour or two from our lethargy. The question naturally arises in one^» mind, how is it that the Wesluyans, a small denomination, can find money and combination enough to build themselves a neat chapel while the Church of England is obliged to find its spiritual comfort in a shed, or an old deserted boarding-house.

The Aroha Settlers. Mr Roohe, the pioneer settler of the Lincolnshire farmers, is beginning to move on with his improvements. The materials and the workmen for the erection of his house have J believed arrived, and I saw a very good herd of Hereford cattle looking fat and comfortable in the aw*mp the other day, and on enquiring Whose they werd, found they belonged to Mr Roohe.

Coyotes have killed hundreds of iheep in the Northern part of Washington county, Or., during the past season. Fbom Constantinople we learn that Hobart Pasha and Bakor Pasha "have obtained leave to pay short visits' to England. The Sultan has availed himself of the opportunity to charge Hobart Paahft with the presentation of a complimentary letter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.