TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Te Aroha, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1861, 10 June 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Te Aroha, Monday.

A> adjourned mooting of the licencing committee for tin-, di^tuct «ai held in the com t-house on Satmday, to consider the saiious ap])hc>itious for liotcl licence*. Renewals weie gianted to .ill the old house-, in both townships, the ivpoit upon them being of a satisfactory nature. A new licence was also gianted to E. Hadfield for the Conimeicial Hotel, Waiorongomai, conditional, on ceitain improvements being made— \i/.., tlic erection of a. M\-->talled stable, and one «r two other Jieci^-aiy adjuncta. Tlie licencing of this new house at the goldfields township hab caused some disvit^f action among tempeiance people, who in,iintain that the place was well enough piovided when it h.id two publichouses, as befoie, and doubtless they are light, for the amount of business that is now being done is altogether insufficient to suppoit tin cc such Urge establishments as those now in existence. The committee, however, took their own view of the matter, and acted upon it, and it may be taken for gianted they had stiong reason for so doing. An application for a renewal of the license for the O\ford Royal Hotel was held over for further consideiation, the repoit upon the house not being satisfactory. Sergeant Emerson has been inst'-ucted to procure fuller information, and proceeds at once to the locality for that purpose. The place vacated by the Rev Mr Feiguson, the foimer Piesbyteiian minister of this district, has been filled by the Rev Mr Mclntosh from Canterbury. The lattei gentleman has conducted service here on the la-t two Sundays, and his ability as a pieacher has aheady been recognised. The Clnu eh of England people have not yet procured a successor to Mr Davies, but with Mr Mclntosh and Mr Wills, the excellent and energetic young We4eyan cleigyman, the spintual requirements of the people aie at pie-»ent well attended to. A change in the weather has set in. The shaip fro&t of last week and the previous one weie succeeded on Satin day by a, thaw and the temperature is now compaiati\ely mild. A good deal of lain fell at Paeroa and other places down the valley, but here there was only a blight drizzle. Although there has been nothing of much importance to chronicle in mining matters since the discovery of gold last week in the New Find low level, the news from the hill continues of a very encoui aging native. Since the payable crushings last week from the F, the Inverness, and the Diamond Gully claims, the Phoenix Company have had a 13 ton parcel treated and obtained an excellent return of mare than 20 ounces of gold. The work in connection with the new battery has now been commenced. A site has been selected and applied for, and the levelling for the water race is being proceeded with. The prospect of an early addition to the crushing power on the field gives general satisfaction.