TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1836, 12 April 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Wednesday.

Thk excitement caused by the gold discovoy on the hill in the early part of last week may be said to have subsided, find matter* have again resumed their wonted calmness. It is true that the find has not, so far, pioved to be so rich as was at first expected, and the non-fulfilment of the hopes that were raised, perhaps unduly, by the exhibition of the specimen stuff has created a feeling of disappointment. But although the leef has not yet come up to the expect;' tion.s of those whose sanguine tempeiamcnt may have led them to look for too much, it i-> highly payable, and the discovery, opening up as it does a new leef of gieat piomise, cannot but be regauled as a very valuable one. Since the find was fiist made known the lode has been bioken into and worked on to a small extent. The quaitz is of excellent quality and shows strong blotches of gold all through. It has slightly increased in size and is now fiom 18 to 24 inches in thickness with well defined walls and other indications of permanence. Fiom the point where it has been opened up to the boundary of the Wellington claim there is about a chain and a half of ground along which splendid suiface piospects can be obtained, and it is quite likely that as the reef is woiked upon in this direction stone quite as good a» that originally found will again be met with. In the New l^ind mine a work of great importance in its bearings upon the future piospeiity of the field is now in progiess. viz., the sinking of a winze from the low level. An opinion has prevailed that gold would never be traced to any depth in any of the mines here, and the utterances of those who shaie this belief have tended to create a feeling of doubt and uncertainty regarding the permanence of the field. It is pleasing, therefoie, to note that this impiession is gradually being dispelled as the work referred to progresses. This winze is now down 27 feet below the lowest of the other woi kings, and so far the reef shows no signs of falling off either in size or quality. It ib at present four feet in width, and some of the stone taken out dining the last few days is equal to any previously found. As the gold continues 1 to be traced downwaids, so does hope in the futiue continue to acquire stiength, and there is now stiong reason to believe that the gloomy foreb)dings of the croakeis will eventually prove to be altogether groundless. Apart from mining there is nothing of very much importance to chronicle. The Easter holidays are at hand, but of amusements or festivities theie is no sign. Those on pleasure bent will have to find it where best they may. Last week the Great World Circus Company came around this way, and performed for a couple of nights. On the first occasion there was a good attendance, but the entertainment was of a very mediocre description, and afforded little enjoyment to those present at the performance. The muster on the second evening was so small that it was not thought advisable to carry out the programme, and those who had paid for admi&sion had their money returned to them. Hopes were entertained for a little while that we might have been favoured with a visit from His Excellency tho Governor on his recent tour. He came as far as Paeroa, 13 miles from here, but time or circumstances prevented his coming further, and so we were denied the opportunity of displaying our loyalty, and of basking in the vice- regal smilos,

" I was induced to-day by the importunity of your traveller," wrote a German tradesman to a wholesale dealer, " to give him an order ; but, as I did it merely with the object of getting rid of him in a civil manner and without loss of time, I must aak you to cancel the same." A doctor in Ireland was disturbed one night by a rapping on the door, and, on opening it, touncl a labouring man who had come for him. "Have you been long here ? " said the doctor. " Indade I have," answered Pat. "But why didn't you ring the nightbell ? " " Och, because I was afraid of disturbin' your honour." There is no better bon mot in literature than the reply of a girl who heard her father criticised severely across a dinner table. The careless critic paused a momeut to say, "I hope he is no relative of yours, Miss L.," and quick as thought she replied, with the utmost nonchalance, '• Only a connection of mother's by mairiage." The story la told that Longfellow and Fields were making a short pedestrian tour some few days ago, when, to their surprise, an angry bull stood on the pathway, evidently determined to demolish both poet and publisher. " I think," said Fields, *"' that it will be prudent to give this reviewer a wid.e ma/gin.." " Yes," replied the poet, " it appears to be a disputed passage. " M. Girard, Director of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, says that the chemical knowledge applied to the concoction of spurious foods and drinks is of a very high order, and, wou}d suffice to majce th,e Jqrtijnes, qf tjy? adulterators a. a do^en tim ( eg-' O ,er if applied in an honest qa^acity. The matter which seems to h&f'e arousea him of late is a peculiarly ingenious thing in gooseberry jelly. It appears that the article is made entirely of seaweed. The colouring matter is fuchsine and the flavor is given by a compound of ascetic ether, tartaric acid, aldehyde and cenanthic. Inspectors qften regognise it froth the fact that it is H a litte .more elegant than the genuine article." '^Messrs >Y. J. Hunter will sell at the Ohaupo Yards, .on Tuesday, April 22nd about 150 head of cattle ofaUkftdj, dniry cow, fet a^ stored