TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1859, 5 June 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Tk Aroiia, Monday. Tjik project for the erection of another battery has at last assumed a definite shape, arrangements having been concluded between the promoters of the undertaking and the directors of several companies, among which are the Vermont, Chance, Phoenix and Aiizona. The terms of the agreement are not yet generally known, but they are understood to be considerably more liberal than those exacted by the present Battery Co., whose heavy charges would soon extinguish all the poorer claims on the field, were thece no other means of crushing but "at their mill. The time given for the completion of their new plant is to the 31st of December next, but as the work will bo pushed on with as much rapidity as the weather and other circmnstancea will admit of, it is to be hoped that in about five months from now all will be in readiness for a start. The machinery, which will be of the most perfect description, has, it is understood, been already ordered, and a commence - ment will this week be made on the preliminary works, such as the surveying and cutting of the water-race, preparing batteiy site, <fee. The lack of other and cheaper facilities for crushing than those at present existing has undoubtedly been the main cause of the present languishing state of the field, and it is confidently expected that the new undertaking will be the means of inaugurating an era of steady prosperity. Several small crushings have taken place of late, with very satisfactory results. The Diamond Gnlly Co. have had the excellent yield of 43 ounces of retorted gold from 10 tons of quartz and some picked stone. The Inverness has alw had a good return, and from the F Claim in the Alphabet Cos. ground some 70 ounces were obtained from 49 loads of stuff. Such yields as these from mines situated widely apart should dispel all doubts as to the future of the field. We were favoured here on Friday last with an open air exhibition of skill in rope walking by aMr Jerome. This individual placarded the town with posters announcing his intention of doing a 50 mile walk m ten hours in the Public Hall (not a very great "feat by the way) on the following day. Whether the* scanty receipts on the occasion of his first performance impressed him unfavourably with the liberality of the Te Arohans, or whether he was doubtful of accomplishing the task he had set himself can only be surmised. He did not, however, give us an opportunity of witnessing his ability as a, pedestrian at the appointed time, but those astir at an early hour might have seen him essay the feat on a different track. Neither printer nor hotelkeeper has yet heard whether he has completed the performance. During the last ten days the weather though clear and bright has at times been excessively cold, and the frosts for so early a period have been exceedingly sharp. On several mornings the register haa been two or three degrees below freezing point, and on one occasion the thermometer stood at 26 degrees in an opening in the bush near the New Find mine on the hill. The weather-wise say this is indicative of a fine winter, and so far as this neighbourhood is concerned it is to be hoped they are right, for another such' wet season as that of last year would prove a great drawback to mining operations.

' ■ ' Mr I. H. Mandeno, Te Awamutu, has " Red chaff wheat, and carrots for sale. Mr J. S, Ruckland will sell at '^Cambridge, on Saturday, pure Clydesdale colts and fillies, three, years old. A Pjikekura Road District road-closing notice appears in our advertisement columns, AH persons trespassipg- on the Rukuhia "Estate in pursuit of ganie^will be proeecuted. , " Mr John Knox will sell at an early date, by. order of the trustees in. P. Connelt's estate,* Alexandra, groceries, drapery, ironmongery, &c. He will hold bis usu*l sale of produce, J?c, at' tne Hamilton Mart on Saturday, when he »ill offer a bullcalf, produce of Mr Far*tham'« itock, lot of fowl», turkeys, fee, "