TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1863, 14 June 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Tj; Arojia, Wednesday. A CON.sri)T:KABtiK amount of interest is e\ inced amongst our athletcn in the football match to be played at Morrinss ille on Saturday afternoon between the lepresentiitive teams fiom Hamilton and this district. A close game and plenty of haul work is expected, but our players are confident of succe-^, and theii opponents will require to be good men and true, and well skilled in the game to prevent them from carrying off the palm of victory. It is unfoitunatc for theTeArohans that two of their best men (Jones and Trude) will in all piobability be unable to take a part in the match, but even without them a capital team will bo got together, each town furnishing some picked men and the lull supplying a contingent from amongst the haidy miners. It is to bo hoped the we.ithcr will prove propitious and that the game will terminate decisively, for lepeated diaws,' like those in the Thames matches are not satisfactory to either bide. May the best men win. It i& whispeied that a paper is about to bo .started at "Waiorongomai in opposition to the Te Aroha News: In the latter journal some strong letters have recently appeared condemnatory of some of the doings of the Battery Company and lefiecting upon the management. Whether these strictures have engendered a spiiit of opposition the outcome of which is the projected broadsheet, or whether a small section of the community at the goldfielde township are jealous of the ascendancy of its rival is as yet a matter of conjecture, but from whatever cause it springs the new journalistic venture, regarded as a speculation, is not likely in the present state of matteis to prove very successful. Although the embryo mining city may be destined to assume large proportions at some future time, it is hardly in a sufficiently advanced stage yet to maintain a paper of even the most modest pretensions.