TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TE AROHA, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2211, 9 September 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT .] TE AROHA, Wednesday.

KuiiAon Monday morning the dwelling house occupied by Mr John Mi-tf.it at Waitoa was burnt to the ground. Whrn the Hrc broke out the family were all in bed and asleep, and before it was di>co\ered the Hainos had got po^-eaiion of thn kitchen and dinm^ room. Nothing could be done to save the building, which, in a very short time was leduced to a heap ot ashes, but a good deal of. the fumitiue \\.\-» Kot out without being much injuied. The tire is supposed to h:\Ae onjjmatrd in the kitchen, in which miiiic clothes had been hung up to diy neai the .stove. The hou«e which contained m\ room", was the property of Mis Motf.it, and was injured in the New Zealand Company's otßce for ill so, and the furniture foi £100. The quarterly meeting of the Waitoa Licensing committee wa-> held at Morrinsville on Monday, when the following members were pioM»nt: — ■ Mows Chepinell (chairman,) UubbuiN, Turnbull, and 11. Pair. An application for a transfer of tho licence of the Nottingham Castle Hot^i Mouin^\ile, frou, K. S P>ro\\n to Snowden liairay was granted. There no other bwMne>s of impoitance. The Te Vroha Licen-msj Committee held their quarterly meetuig 1 m^tlie Couit hou^e on Saturday, ami gianted a transfer of the license for the To \»olia CluD Hotel from Thomas H.iywood to Miss Kmilv .Tex. Mr Thomas llaun, whose acceptance of the appointment (jf trunuay manager had dis(liialitied him as a member of the committee sent in his resignation. Monthly meetings of the Public Library and School Committee- \\ etc held >e«.terday e\eninsr, but at both the busines, was only <>f a formal nature. It u.ts linptvl in the beginning of the week « lien then- was ,i biief respite from the almost continuous rain and wind which had so long previous prevailed, that spring had at ust come round, ,i\«\ a speil of cenial weather was Jtv.ked for, but a change ag.*m sec in veoteidiv, and fi nn appearance this momuig theio is still a plentiful «-ui»ply of the Wiiteiy element m stuie.