TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Te Aroha, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2112, 21 January 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Te Aroha, Wednesday.

Tf'E R.M. Court sat yesterday, Mr H. Kenrick presiding, but the business was nut of much importance. The following were the principal cases on the li>t. Ciiminal : Win. Holtby was charged with assaulting his uife at Waitoa, on the 17th in^t. and was b mnd over on his own recognisances for £20 to keep the peace for twelve months. On the application of Ed. Cookson, an order was issued prohibiting all per-ons within the licencing districts of Te Aruha and Waitoa from supplying intoxicating lio,uoi-> to Jithn Saunders dnting the ne\t twelve months. Civil Cases : Wm. Wilson v J. Me In tosh, el lim £7 8s Od, balance of money due on the purchase of a horse, and suldle and bridle, judgment for amount with costs, 255. J. Cuff y. P. T. Jausen, cl«im £2 8s 4d for professional services. Judgment for amount, to be paid in weekly instalments of 10s ; costs [fit. T. Wood v C. Tonsce, claim for rent £22 lOri. Judgment for £4 4s, defendant to pay costs Bs. * Win. Wilson v H. H. Di\, claim £0, value of good -idet lined. Plaintiff nonsuited with co-*ts, £2 Is. The Warden's Court was not opened, there being no mining business. Owing to the scarcity of water, consequent upon the long spell of dry weather, mining operations at Waiorongomai are now almost .it a standstill. Although occasional showers have fallen on the ranges, especially yesterday, when the rain came down pretty freely for a time, th<-y have had no effpet in filling the creeks which are now remarkably low. At Messrs Firth and Clarks battery the whole of the stampers are hung up, the snpply of water being insufficient to keep more than a few berdans going on tailings. The battery hoppers are full of quartz, and at the claims considerable quantities are stacked, ready to be sent down as boon as there is a. chance of treating it. Most of the miners are idle, and the slightest whisper of a payable gold discovery in the King Country would have the effect of taking a number of them away from the district.