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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2227, 16 October 1886, Page 2

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

L< or some weeks past there has- been a lull in the borough movement, pending the settlement of certain questions relating 1 to the subject upon which the committee deemed it advisable to hive sound legal opinion before .sending 1 on tho petition, now in readiness to be foi wauled to Wellington. The questions' upon which ad \ ice has been sought lefei to the hasi* on \\huh tho an nnal amount required from rates is to b> laised, «md the appropriation of the gold duty -and other revenues horn mines within the limits (if the pioposed boiough. On the latter subject the opinion obtained fioni Sir Y. Whitaker is clear and distinct that goldtields ie\enue within a borough is pay able to the borough and not to a county. With respect to rateable \alu»"> the reply ip ceived by wne h, " That compliance with Hub-Section 2 of .section lit of the Atunicipdl (Corporations Act, ISSIi, isa condition piecedent to the issuing by the (»o\ernoiofa i)i ( clvmation constituting a bor.mgh und r that Act, but the Act does not come i.iio ofieuition till the Ist of Januaiy, lSb7." This reply in plain enough as far as it goe>, bi t it refers to only one ph iso of the sub jeefc. It is ev|>ected, however, that the matter will be moio fully dealt with in the

lctr.ir which his yet to be rocuive'l, and which will (iouWtlc--, place things before the coni'ii'th* in <i cle tier li^ht. Xd (3( Huit'i information has yet been re* Cf3i\ivl lit r.^iniin? the value of the ore Mint limn" fi -in Uit- Tui Cioolc mint's, but it I^l ruiu'inii'd that :ul\ices received in AudJ.ui'l with resjx'ct to tlie returns are of i must s.iti^f.ictorv nitme. It in to be h >'(•'] tli i ) news is true. HtM\y r.un tell all yesterday, but the weather to-d.iy looks more settled.