TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroho, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2021, 20 June 1885, Page 3

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroho, Friday.

A Pliuic meeting cm lied l>v .uheiti-c-iii' nt, wis huld in the 1 f .ill heie 1 i-t night tn consider the action uf tlu> Pnko County Council ninnttei-. id ituig to the welfaic of thi^ di^tri'.t, and todiscu-s other matteis of hnjMiit inc. Thei- wis .i f.ui attenduic • «f the townspeople and a few of W.nolongimii residents were tlso piv-ent. Mr C. Ahicr w.vs callul to tin* chur and bueflv c\pl lined th^ «l>j -cts of tin- uueting. He cdled ii|ion Mr .l.iin-s Mills to ni'ivc the fiist resolution winch w.is a-, follows "that this in 'ctiii!,' h i\ ni£ m roc >1 lection the |i:ut taken l>v Mr J. C. Firth andothei member-, representing the Pi.iko County Coinuil.it .in interview with the Hon. the Minister of , Mines <m the occi-ioii of his \isitto the | district, de«ii-OH to expivfu its indignation at the conduct ofthesud Council in not adopting meaxuios .it their mooting on May 28th to take advantage of tho generous offer nvicle by the Minister on behalf of thp ( Io venini'3iit to contribute £1,000 towards the cost of constructing the branch tramwaj to connrct the new batteiy with the mines." Mr Millh in the course of hw remarks leferred in strong terms to the inconsistency of Mr Firth and other nieipbeis who .it the interview with Mr Larnach pu>fes<(d a desire t<> have the tramway rtfeiied to (pncUy completed iind yet by their subject action in the council took effectual means t« prevent this being dono. Mr Fiitli, too, w hilo imposing every obstacle in the way of thewe who wished to ha\e this line constructed made no scruple about asking the council to vote money for a branch road by which his own batteiy would bo laigely benefited. He (the .speaker) maintained that the action of the Batteiy Company h.id all along been mobt a/herse to the interests of tho goldfiold and had to a very laige extent been the menas of depoprlating the distnct He wan prepared to pro\e that numbris of families had been forced to lea\e the plnre owing to the «selhsh course, jnir-ued by Mr Firth and those who acted with him After further reference to the evils attendant upon the decisions of the county council, the motion, seconded by Mv J. Farrell, was put to tho meeting and cairied nein. con.— The second resolution, proposed by Mr 1). .t. Frazer and seconded by Mi R Montagu wa«, " That a petition ex pi Ohsing the vicwi of this meeting and urging upon tho House of Representatives the de-na-bihty of having the blanch tramway re feired to in the previous lesolution completed without delay be forwarded by tho chainran of the meeting to the member for the district, Mr J. B. Whyte, for piesentation, with a request that ho will use his influence in furthering the wishes of tho petitioners." This was also carried unanimously. After the business i elating to the county council was disposed of the subject of the railway bridge was introduced and lefurence made to the urgent need for h.ning it opened foi public use without furthei delay.— A rebolution was moved by Mr Thos. Wood, seconded by Mr W. Hetherington, and carried without dissent, " That the chairman of this meeting bo authorised to wue to Mr J. 13. Whyte asking him to request the Government to declare the railway bndgo open for traffic, I and eliciting him also to obtain a grant of £50, being two-thirds of the amount icquued by the contractor to form the temporary approaches a» ntated in a li ttci formerly sent to tho Minister of Public Works. Some minor business connected with the borough movement brought the proceedings to a clo-e.

Tiik destruction by Hie of a music hall at Buffalo, New Yoik, and the Catholic Church of St. Louis, has caused a loss of 350,000d015, and the death of a man who had climbed to the roof of the church but failed to escape in time. Sunday in London.— The manner of keeping Sunday in London has greatly relaxed with recent yeais. Continental travel his incontcstaWy done much to form public opinion in tho dheetion of favouring a less ngoious and less austere mode of spending that holy day. A dozen yeais ago Sunday dinner parties were almost unknown in West End families. Now, on the contrary, festive banquets are given on that day in every fashionable square. Garden parties, lawn tennis matches, and outings on the Thames iro familial,' evcuta cm tho Metro])o,htaty Sunday.