TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1876, 15 July 1884, Page 4

TE AROHA.

.."OfttOXt OUR OWN COmtESVONnENT.J Te Aroha, Wednesday. A RAl'iiKß numeiously attended meeting .jvas lield at Waiorongomai on Saturday evening last for the purpose of consideiing matters 1 elating to the piospcrity of tins district. The business was ot a somewhat compiehensive character, the discussion embracing land, railways, postal, tramway, and other subjects, "lie/solutions were pissed affirming the desirability of a piompt completion of the railway fiom Moirmsville to Te Aroha, and au early e.\tention of the line onward to Waiorongomai ; also of having t the portion from Hamilton to Morrinsville at once opened for passenger traffic 'and the conveyance of mails. Peihaps the most important matter brought be 7ore the meeting was contained in a "motion by Mr A. Baskett, 1 elating to the resumption by Government of lands in the district, which weic locked up as native leserves or for educational puiposes as in the case of the Thames High School endowment, which einbiaces the whole of the Waiorongonmi township, a considerable portion ot the goldfi'jld and some thousands ot acies of the best agricultural land in the neighbourhoo 1. Mr W. A. Mm ray of Piako in seconding the motion thiew some cunous light upon the doing of the board in connection with the land from which it would appear that the relations between that body and the Government with reference thereto are in a somewhat confused state. He had been making enquiry into the matter and read the following portion of a letter he had received from Wellington in leply to one from him. "Full enquiry has been made into the subject of the Thames High School Endowment reserve and it has been ascertained that no giant or any title "whatever fiom the ci own lias yet been issued to the Thames High School Board in respect to the land in Le Aroha block, that has been proposed to be set aside as an endowment roserv c. The Government ha\e never hcen consulted by the Thames High School Boai d vv ith legal d to the leasing ot the land in question or to the conditions of auction and of lease and conditions of which have only quite iccently become known to the Government. The Government, theicfoie, cannot hold itselt in any way responsible for the action of the board in connection with the leasing of the land. Che Government have now under consideration die couise to be taken in connection with the vesting of the leserve in the Thames High School Boaul.'' As the hoard has for the last two or thiee yeais been dealing with land in all lespects as if it had been vested in thorn from the fiist, the matter, as it now stands is likely to foim the basis of a very pietty quancl. Several other subjects were discussed at the meeting, and a stiong committee was appointed to cany into effect the lcsolut'ons that weie passed. On Monday evening there was a large and enthusiastic c;atheiing of temperance people, old and young, in the schoolioom at the Blue Ribbon settlement, as the goldfields township has not inappiopriately been styled, foi theic the movement has taken a wondei fully stiong hold, and has been pioductive of a laige amount of good. The Xcv Mr Mclntosh piusided, and a most pleasant evening was spent in the usual fashion on such occasions. A large number of fi lends fiom Te Aioha, weie piesent, and assrtcd in making the affair the genuine success it piovcd to be. These meetings aie having a \eiy salutaiy effect in Keeping alive the zeal of those who have joined the tanks, and if the cause continues to piosper as it lias clone hitherto, the hotelkeupcis will vciy soon bo f.inly starved out. Poihips in no other town of its size in the colony lias the movement gamed a iiimer footing than in Waioiongomai. An accident, winch might have be.en attended with \oiv sr-uous consequence*, occumd hcie on Monday. As tho afternoon bus, in winch weie some women and el.ildien, was about to sttit for Waioroiigoiiiai, a diunken man accosted some acfjuaintancL'd who weie seated outside, and wished them to u-mniu behind. On their declining to come down he made a lush to the hoi ses' heads to stop the con\eyauce, and the animals galloped ofl at a fiuious rate along the rough road. The di her got thrown horn his seat to the ground, nnd the passengers, as may be supposed, were in a state of fear and trembling. Fortunately one of them who was seated on the box managed somehow to got hold of the loins, and succeeded in aucstmq the career of the animals, othciwise the consequences might have been disastrous, a3 in seveial places the road is very nauow, and a capsize would have been inevitable. In political matters all is quiet. The rumour that was spiead heie as to the candidatuie of Mi I)e Lautonr was evidently a canard, and fiom anything that is known to tho contiaiy m this neighbouihood, Mi Wliytc is now like to have the field to himself. 1 1 is vi«it is looked foiw.ud to with much intnest. The t'.uiy Nelson tioupe peifoimed lieie on Satuiday and Monday evenings to excellent housrs, and, it applause may be legaidtd as a, pioof of niciit, their effoits to please weie in a high dettiee successful. The ct-n^any left for Wmkato yesterday.

A Slow Si-.t.— A lion's &et. A\vom\.\ would be in despair if nature had foiincd her a.s fashion makes her appeat. Tjik Pko"\ mci \l PiihSS. — Cider Manufactories. Thk Ho Mr. Ciicle. — 'Walking round the room with the baby at niglit. It is always s>aid that deaf and dumb people take a handjn conversation. Why is a drawn tooth like a thing forgotten ? Because it is out of the head. A M v\ out West died in a bath tub. The verdict was. death fiom inexperience. Gknuihng Sew Dem/\l. — Baying ' Not at home.' Subject to fits and pretty bad cnes sometimes. — Tailois. Truth lies in a well. This is because there are no fish stories connected with well water. Fact for Musicians who keep fowls, — The music of the rooster is not composed of crow-bars. • Mahhied,— On September 18, Herbert L. Rolliugstone and Emma J. Moss.' Thus does one familiar pioveib leceivo a death-blow. It is stated that Mr W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan have entered into an agieement to pioduce a new piece each yeai for thiee \eais to come. It is stated that thiee new theatres are about to bo built in London. Sixteen yeais ago there wcie in London only nine the.ities, and now theie are 25, and soon there will be 2S. Herbuit RntVLS, a son of Sims Tleeves, the great English tenor, ha 3 made a successful debut in opera, The " Musical Woild " &a,\s • — " The young tenor sang with finished expiession, good intonation, and peifnct enunciation, and won enthusiastic applause " Mk Gladsto:n.e doesn't object to being caricatured. Mr Bannister, of the Edin burgh Theatre Royal, lecently sent him his (the actor's) poi trait as the Grand Old Man in the pantomime of " Blue Beard." and icceivcd in letuin a letter from Mr Gladstone's secietary, sajing that the Premier took great pleasure in accepting the photogiaph, which he testified to be a very clever impersonation. Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to de stroy them get a packet of lln l's, Magic Vi'rmin Kili i'R in packets, Cd. 9d, and Is, to be obt lined of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extia stamp. Life in the Bush— Titen and Now. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and "privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Kill, who has himself dwelt in the bush; if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Sauce gives to them a most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most: enjoyable, and 'instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Im- . proved Colonial Baking Powder makes the very best bread, scones, cakes, a,nd. j?astry far superior and more ■vrholdtbmo-'utikr'Y&av or leaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can obtun it from any merchant in AucWand;