TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2089, 26 November 1885, Page 3

TE AROHA.

[from our own corrksfonmnt. I Tic Aroha, Wednesday. Trnc business at the aitting of the R.M. Court yesterday, was exceedingly light. The only case possessing and interest wa* that of Burke v. Mackie in which plaintiff nought for a reduction of damages claimed by defendant under the Impounding Act for injury done to a number of young vinci fe a hone the property of plaintiff. It vv.is in evidence that the hum of £2 which the plaintiff had been mulcted in on releasing hia animal from the pound was much in excexs of the actual damage, now k estimated at fa. An order was accordingly issued by the court instructing the poundkeeper to refund to plaintiff the sum overcharged. In another case in which same plaintiff and defendant appeared the latter wax accused by plaintiff of luting language toward* him calculated to provoke a broach ' of the peace. Defendant admitted having used the language complained of and was fined 20s and cunts. The visit of Profewor Black next week 11 looked forward to with great interest. At the Thames and at Karang.ihake, where he now in, his lecturer have been immensely (M»pular and they will doubtless be as uglily appreciated by the mining portion of the community hero. It has been arranged [ to hold the whole course at Waiorongomai as there the main body of the miners reside, and though this will put those residing in this township to some inconvenience it were better no than (hat there should be any break in the continuity of the lectures, as would bo the case were they divided between the two places. The cotir>o w ill be commenced on Monday next. The variable and oftentimes disagreeable weather of the past few weeks Heenis now t" have cotno to an end. Bright skies and geni.»l warmth have prevailed for soino days given token of the near approach of grimmer, __^_______^_