TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 3

TE AROHA.

[from our owk correspondent.] Tk Aroha. Friday. Amid the excitement created by the convulsions in the Lake country, and the terrible havoc which has been caused over such a widespread district, it is not to be wondered At that reports should have gained credence of changes wherever subterranean agencies are at work anywhere within a score or two of leagues of the scene of the catastrophe. Rumours have been afloat in Auckland and elsewhere that the thermal springs here have been to some extent affected by the outbreak of Rotomahana, but there is not in reality any foundation for the report. This district, as everyone knows who is at all acquainted with the geography of the province, lies wholly out of the line of the volcanic country extending from Tongariro to White Inland, and the eruption on the 10th was not more felt here than it seems to have been in other places further distant from the centie of action. Careful obiervations were made both as to the temperature and the flow of water from the springs when the eruption was at its Berctst, and in neither respect were they in the slightest degree affected. It is very improbable that this locality will ever be the theatre of auch a calamity «s the one which the whole colony is now mourning over, and if ever our hot springs are destroyed, it is not at all likely that it will be by such an agency as that which has wrought bo much ruin in the Lake country. The reprehensible and cowardly practice of laying poison in public places for the destruction of does that may perhaps be causing some temporary annoyance has, it is believed, been indulged in by some unscrupulous person here. A valuable animal

belonging to Mr J. Wood, wan recently t.iken suddenly ill and quickly died, Bhowinjr all the symptoms of having been poi Honed, and on Wednesday lust, Mr J. L. Chalmers lost a favourite retriever through the h.iiiiu cause. Mr Wood offers a *üb-<tanti.il reward for the dweoxery of the perpetrator, who, if lie receives his deserts Hhould cerlauily autfer severe piminhtnont. A dispute has arisen concerning the removal ofcert.un premises recently occupied by a gentleman of tho long robo in Whi taker-street. Litigation, as is natural, ii likely to ensue, and the matter will probably take up some time at the next sitting of thoK.M. Court.